words to live by
The tragedy of modern man is that he spends more time optimising what’s on his CV than his eulogy.
George Mackx.comwhat if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
Erin Glasstwitter.comImpatience is an expensive emotion.
Every app wants your decision in seconds. Every employer wants results this quarter. Every investment platform profits when you trade. Meanwhile, the boring investor who indexed and touched nothing decades ago owns your neighborhood. Who's winning?
The patient inherit everything the impatient leave behind.
Every app wants your decision in seconds. Every employer wants results this quarter. Every investment platform profits when you trade. Meanwhile, the boring investor who indexed and touched nothing decades ago owns your neighborhood. Who's winning?
The patient inherit everything the impatient leave behind.
Work to become, not to acquire.
Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
From Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon.
What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite... See more
Glenn F. Chesnut • The God-Shaped Hole in the Human Soul
Blaise Pascal