Gus Guerrero
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Gus Guerrero
“The chief utility of a general theory... of strategy lies in its ability not to point out lessons, but to isolate things that need thinking about. Theory provides insights and questions, not answers.”
Strategy, Rediscovered? — Martin Weigel
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
erin glasstwitter.comChia Amisola—naive-yearly.are.na
naive-yearly.are.na“Fiction is just gossip about people who happened to be make-believe.” — Lynn Barnes
All of this can be described in one word--'Aiglatson'--which is 'Nostalgia' spelled backwards and is a word told to me by Gabriel Fackre to symbolize the yearning for things to come;
revering the future;
without being disrespectful to the past (remembering that once it was all that was humanly possible), preferring the dreams of the future to the... See more
revering the future;
without being disrespectful to the past (remembering that once it was all that was humanly possible), preferring the dreams of the future to the... See more
Why Austin Kleon reads obituaries #mementomori
youtube.comResearch as leisure activity is directed by passions and instincts . It’s fundamentally very personal: What are you interested in now ? It’s fine, and maybe even better, if the topic isn’t explicitly intellectual or academic in nature. And if one topic leads you to another topic that seems totally unrelated, that’s something to get excited... See more
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
What we have is a compounded problem, in which people with generational wealth pull the levers on a society that they don’t understand. Whether corporate policies or social welfare or college financial aid, nearly every aspect of society has been designed by people unfamiliar with not only the experience of living in poverty but the experience of... See more
In social science, hope is not simply the belief that one’s circumstances will get better; for that, we use the term optimism. Hope is the belief that an individual can make things better.