Harshith Iyer
Learning to Measure Time in Love and Loss (Published 2013)
“Idealism kills. Mutual interests save lives.”
- Minister Chen from Madam Secretary
- At scale, even edge cases become common.
Charisma is often just the absence of tension/rigidity in conversation
Nostalgia is a socially malignant force
- When one side declares war, the war has started. Your refusal to fight back doesn't mean there's no war, it just means you're going to get fucking destroyed.
Bees don't waste their time explaining to flies that honey is better than shit
Love is making space for someone not just when it's convenient but especially when it's not
- Americans feel poor despite being orders of magnitude richer than most others because our gov. cannot provide cheaper public options to costly private goods.
from Tweet by Stan Oklobdzija
