Jacob Pettit

“We are the generators of the Internet, we are generators of the media. What we give our time, attention, and money to is what thrives, and what doesn’t get it is what dies.” -Ezra Klein

My challenge, information-wise, isn't about finding a needle in a haystack. It's that I'm confronted on a daily basis, in Carr's words, by "haystack-sized piles of needles." — Oliver Burkeman

Kurt Vonnegut, talking about when he tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:

“Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of b

You shouldn’t have a to-do list, you should just put stuff into your calendar. Schedule it. -Paraphrasing Tim Ferris on the Modern Wisdom podcast

“Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.” - Marcus Aurelius