Allen Sanderson
@erstwhile
Allen Sanderson
Capacities
app.capacities.ioTop of Mind notes are fleeting thoughts that I won’t remember if you ask me a few hours later. It used to be on top of mind but easily gone in a few minutes. It could be a snatch of dialogue. Emotional moment. Single incident or observation. Things like that.
Every time I open it I have no idea what I’m going to read. In addition to reflection, it has pretty good serendipitous value.
Excited (anything compelling, resonant and important to me). An effort to pay atention to what I pay attention to.
“Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic counterfeits,” Emily Dickinson sighed in one of her love letters to Susan an epoch
Maria Popova • The Marginalian
Dang it lets me add a note right away!
Contemporary research has shown that children do pretty well when offered autonomy.
Many 80s parents practiced what University of Pennsylvania sociologist Annette Lareau, PhD, has come to call “accomplishment of natural growth.” That’s the idea that parents are there to provide kids with food, safety and love, in order to facilitate a self-dir... See more
Many 80s parents practiced what University of Pennsylvania sociologist Annette Lareau, PhD, has come to call “accomplishment of natural growth.” That’s the idea that parents are there to provide kids with food, safety and love, in order to facilitate a self-dir... See more
Patrick A. Coleman • A 1980s Parenting Style Could Save Summer
Maybe the best book dedication ever (Brunello Cucinellis book on Solomeo)
I’ll await your Loro Piana response @DanielSLoeb1 https://t.co/7AaKsO47md
‘My early years spent in the countryside, my life in a farming family, left the seed and then the sprout of Humanistic Capitalism and Human Sustainability in my soul.
Humanistic Capitalism and Human Sustainability | Brunello Cucinelli
Brunello’s vision is humanistic capitalism, which doesn’t make profits the be all end all of his company - but that there is enough for all and that beauty of the people in the company are served beyond money.
Catharine Cox studied 300 geniuses of history
Found persistence matters more than IQ:
"High but not the highest intelligence, combined with the greatest degree of persistence, will achieve greater eminence than the highest degree of intelligence with somewhat less persistence" https://t.co/kNvRoGbvby
A person who has not been in danger is not a person.
Antifragile - Nassim Taleb