Thoughts

thoughts (my own and from others) collected from across the web

i need someone to consistently hit me over the head to remind me that skimming a PDF is only learning lite and we are aiming for learning premium

“He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”

– Lao-Tse

What one wants is to be able to talk with a diverse club of smart people, arrange to do short one-off research projects and simulations, publish papers or capture intellectual property quickly and easily, and move on to another conversation. Quickly. Easily. For a living. Can’t do that in industry. Can’t do that in the Academy. Y

Tozier • Diverse themes observed at GECCO 2006 | Notional Slurry

“Average players want to be left alone. Good players want to be coached. And great players want to be told the truth.” – Nick Saben

Sometimes it's not the people who change, it's the mask that falls off. — Haruki Murakami

Wow, what a beautiful framing. Some people feel called to build families, others feel called to build ideas. They're not mutually exclusive, of course, but they're both ways to spread parts of ourselves: "My religious cousin, who is the same age as I am, she has six kids. And I have six books. Maybe there is no great di... See more

Defining time well spent for yourself is one of the most important tasks of going day to day in this life.