Thoughts

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

“worry is a misuse of imagination”

Two thoughts from Robert Breault "The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay." "We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal."

Jim O'Shaughnessy x.com

“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.

Tozier • Diverse themes observed at GECCO 2006 | Notional Slurry

“I’m looking for a practice and a journey, not a quick hit.” - Seth Godin

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing. ― Gertrude Stein

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... See more

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

– C.S. Lewis