sparks

Do you understand his temperament as an act of denial or an act of acceptance?

What an interesting question. I’ve never been asked that before. I suppose I understand his temperament mostly as a great gift.

I’m not trying to deny my father the credit he deserves. I know my father made a great many decisions about the kind of life he wanted to live... See more

A lot of people believe they’re “principled” when they’re actually just rigid. And the rigidity is making them boring as fuck .

And I don’t mean boring in the harmless way, like “prefers routine” or “goes to bed early” boring. I mean boring in the spiritually stale way, where talking to them feels like interacting with a pull-string doll from the... See more

I feel a wave of dystopia whenever I confront the intellectual inconsistency of highly educated people.

the people who win deals are the ones who want to win them most.