Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
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Death Tractates by Brenda Hillman
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Bob, the furnace maintenance man, popped into the lab, cheered by the news that Trump seemed to be winning. Bob had voted for the first time in his life earlier that day, hoping that Trump would save the factory. Shannon’s father had done the same thing.
Farah Stockman • American Made
Some variation of that phrase can be used on most of your role models – people who have extreme, outlying success. You like them because they do things other people would never consider, or can’t even comprehend.
Morgan Housel • How People Think
"Go deeper and weirder and make something that is so human and so strange that it can't be duplicated by an algorithm."
Just a moment...
Even in music, the days of long intros are over as songwriters try and get to the chorus as quickly as possible before impatient listeners flip to the next song (artist royalties only kick in after 30 seconds).
I want it, and I want it NOW!
Putting ideas into words doesn't have to mean writing, of course. You can also do it the old way, by talking. But in my experience, writing is the stricter test. You have to commit to a single, optimal sequence of words. Less can go unsaid when you don't have tone of voice to carry meaning. And you can focus in a way that would seem excessive in
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Research requires understanding the history, theory, and practices of the discipline(s) you work within . Each discipline has its own particular history, and contemporary researchers are often elaborating upon, responding to, and reacting against that history.
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
Usually, however, people who say "the Constitution is not a suicide pact" view that statement as a trump card. This policy might be unconstitutional, they implicitly concede, but we should pursue it anyway because the stakes are too high to follow "doctrinaire logic" rather than "practical wisdom." That way of thinking is tantamount to saying that... See more