Reminders for myself

“While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning a tune on the flute. ‘What good will it do you,’ they asked, ‘to know this tune before you die?’” — from “Why Read the Classics?,” in The Uses of Literature (trans. Patrick Creagh)

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“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.” — Socrates

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my role in life

If Nike announced that they were opening a hotel, you’d have a pretty good guess about what it would be like. But if Hyatt announced that they were going to start making shoes, you would have NO IDEA WHATSOEVER what those shoes would be like. That’s because Nike owns a brand and Hyatt simply owns real estate.

The Elegance of Nothing