Quotes

You care too much because you don’t have a world to build - Dan Koe

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

The way of the tourist is to consume; the way of the pilgrim is to be consumed. To the tourist the journey is a means. The pilgrim understands that it is both a means and an end in itself. The tourist and the pilgrim experience time differently. For the former, time is the foe that gives consumption its urgency. For the latter, time is a gift in wh... See more

The Tourist and the Pilgrim

(„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

Piotr Jaroszyński • Kultura i cywilizacja : od Cycerona do Konecznego

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

We might be wrong, but we’re not fucking confused - Tomer Cohen, CPO @LinkedIn

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’.

Generalist Power

“I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?” ― Napoleon Bonaparte