The New Romantics

"Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden."

- Voltaire

Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle is a concept in quantum mechanics. It tells us that what we measure determines what we observe. And what we observe determines the nature of reality.

We are never as good as we should be; and neither, it seems, are other people. A life without a so-called critical faculty would seem an idiocy: what are we, after all, but our powers of discrimination, our taste, the violence of our preferences? Self-criticism, and the self as critical, are essential to our sense, our picture, of our so-called... See more

This is the quiet art of living well. It does not demand that we abandon the world, but that we engage with it more mindfully. It asks that we slow down, that we look more closely, that we listen more carefully. For in doing so, we discover that much of what we seek—clarity, peace, even strength—was always within reach. It was simply waiting for us

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The people we traditionally consider to be smartest are those best at some sort of a general math / reasoning ability.

This is not what genius is.

Something is deeply wrong when we sext the same way we order a sandwich.

For the most part, I was using my vast expertise in productivity to... make more content about productivity.