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“How you do anything is how you do everything.”

live life with integrity to yourself, both in privacy and in public

In the 21st century, creative stagnation is aggressively promoted by entertainment and culture businesses.

Are We Living in a Time of Cultural Collapse?

Thinking about cultural and creative stagnation

Most men will not swim before they are able to.” Is that not witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they wont think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what’s more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth... See more

The flight of the Weird Nerd from academia

Vincent Van Gogh on the accumulation of small things:

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. The trick is to focus on the first small thing. Starting small is still starting, and small beginnings often lead to extraordinary endings.”