beautifully said
she crystallized a cultural mood
Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance.
– Conclave
Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insight without endangering the security of our prior assumptions.
– Robert Grudin, The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation
maintains avant-garde pretensions despite being entirely milquetoast.
Sean Monahan • INTERNET COOL
Oftentimes, innovation is just another word for cultural espionage.
Sean Monahan • INTERNET COOL
surrounded by the detritus of dashed hopes
Many young people are furious about the economic lot they have drawn by being born into an era of significant wealth inequality
“People aren’t dumb. The world is hard.” — Richard Thaler
Adam Singer • All behavior makes sense with sufficient information
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble
Carl Jung
Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character.
Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.
-Jensen Huang