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by Wiktor Tkaczyk · updated 2mo ago
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We might be wrong, but we’re not fucking confused - Tomer Cohen, CPO @LinkedIn
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what’s gonna help you wake up, won't help you sleep at night - for cryin’ out loud by Finneas
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"If you have a problem with me, text me. If you don't have my number, then you don't know me well enough to have a problem with me!'
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In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. - Herbert Simon, 1971
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- I’ve come to realize: being a generalist isn’t something we choose. It’s something inherently in our nature — it’s how we see the world. We can think of this approach as a ‘cognitive preference’.
from Generalist Power
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- („I podobnie ja k pole, posługując się tym samym po równaniem, chociaż żyzne, nie może być urodzajne bez uprawy, rów nież i dusza bez nauki. Jedna rzecz bez drugiej je st w ięc bezsilna. U p raw ą duszy zaś je st filozofia: ono w yryw a z korzeniami wady i przygotowuje dusze do przy jęcia ziarna, powierza im je i, że tak po wiem, zasiewa, aby dojrz... See more
from Kultura i cywilizacja : od Cycerona do Konecznego by Piotr Jaroszyński
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Cyceron
‘‘I have led a toothless life’, he thought. ‘ A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on-and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone. What’s to be done? Break the shell? That’s easily said. Besides, what would remain? A little viscous gum, oozing through the dust and leaving a glister
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