Deep Thoughts

In a 2017 interview, Ev Williams (the founder of Twitter), said something that has stuck with me since: “the trouble with algorithms, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it... See more

sari azout • My Favorite Questions

If I were a doctor, I'd prescribe books. They can be just as powerful as drugs.

— Shane Parrish

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. Big, undreamed‑of things—the people on the edge see them first.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

— Voltaire

““The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” ― Garry Kasparov”

— The Fallen of Foulweather Bluff (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller Book 3) by D.D. Black

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““Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.” ― Jonathan Swift”

— The Fallen of Foulweather Bluff (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller Book 3) by D.D. Black

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Every generation of human being has lived with uncertainty and unpredictability; that’s how we developed the staggering human capacity for invention, discovery, improvisation and creativity. Our ability to invent and explore came from necessity, not comfort.

Margaret Heffernan • Uncharted

“the super-power of the human race—dating back a couple hundred thousand years—was making order out of a fundamentally chaotic and unpredictable world.”

— The Shadows of Pike Place (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller Book 2) by D.D. Black

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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.

— Audre Lorde