Stuff to bring up at a dinner party
The hard part about table selection IRL is that choosing easier tables feels like admitting weakness. There's more social status in losing at the hard table than winning at the easy one. How many people stay at McKinsey getting absolutely crushed when they could be the star player at a mid-size company?
Life is Poker, Not Chess
Roots
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“I learnt at some point though that freedom is a type of currency. If you don’t spend it, you have nothing but coins, coins you can’t do anything with but spend. If you spend all your coins though, you quickly see that having everything is much like having nothing.”
Roots
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“I can't help feel that identity is an illusion, I know that participation in a society isn’t.”
Our brains come preset to look at life up close. Don't forget to zoom out. https://t.co/zdJ5L7VmGF
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
— David Foster Wallace
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
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