When I try a wine and I HATE it, but I can totally understand that it's good wine (no flaws, I can see why others might like it), I think that's what having "taste" is.

Apart from my subjective judgment, I can usefully apply the label "beautiful" to things I observe. To taste is to be a living being, but to have taste is to be human.

@labsanta

7 months ago

My learnings

The importance of curiosity: Richard Feynman emphasizes the value of curiosity and questioning the world around us. He believes that asking why is essential to understanding how things work.

The need for a framework: Feynman suggests that to explain why something happens, we need to have a framework that allows us to... See more

His ending was on an empirical level of genius. "Have empathy for displaced people whether they're in the Palisades or Palestine". To make this connection weaving stories together of current events is both masterful and magnificent.

5:12 - FOMO isn't just "fear of missing out" on information; it's fear of missing out on existence itself. YOLO isn't "you only live once" it's you might never live again.

I wish CDs were still a thing, this the type of album that deserves lines of people waiting to buy

I studied Classics in college. When I read Caro, I cannot help but think that his work is -- in terms of quality, significance, and longevity -- comparable to that of Thucydides, Tacitus, Suetonius. Truly one of a kind.

n the midst of running with targets on their backs. These two got to experience a love and a bond most people will spend their whole lives chasing, and may never get.

As someone who went through a classical education in europe. The value of knowing what has come before and why, especially through language, as greek gives you a perspective on latin, so where you once struggled in latin, you now struggle in greek, but understand latin and why you struggle in greek.

You learn a lot about the structure of grammar an... See more

That’s not even comedy, that is the absolute highest form of storytelling.

Told, by our generation’s greatest orator.

Protect Dave Chappelle at all costs.