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The most creative innovations are often new combinations of old ideas. Innovative thinkers don't create, they connect. Furthermore, the most effective way to make progress is usually by making 1 percent improvements to what already works rather than breaking down the whole system and starting over.
James Clear • Don’t Start From Scratch: How Innovative Ideas Arise
I couldn’t help but come to the conviction, right there on the bus, that one of the most important questions modern man must ask himself is how much time he is willing to spend being passively entertained.
Digital Minimalism: A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.
Cal Newport • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
But even if we fail to halt the decline, it will not be the end of hope. The forces we face may be powerful and ruthless. They may have the capacity to plunge us into a terrifying dystopia, one where we will see our freedoms curtailed and widespread economic deprivation. But no tyranny in history has crushed the human capacity for love. And this
... See moreChris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. But if what is human in human beings has not been destroyed even now, then evil will never conquer.
Chris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Because creative people with brighter visions of the future, don’t have the personality to fight against the “take over the world” types
We lose a lot of potential paths
Reggie Jamesx.comA lesson I need to learn: It's ok to disappoint other people if you avoid disappointing yourself.