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Joseph
In sum, to really try to be informed and liter-ate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.
David Foster Wallace • Deciderization 2007—a Special Report
"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”
—Charles Bukowski
It is common for students to change cram schools for different subjects. Indeed, there are even cram schools to enter other famous cram schools. On weekends and holidays, kids study from morning till night, with their parents occupied with transporting them to and from the schools.
'Cram school hell' intensifying S. Korea's population crisis - The Mainichi
from the writer Howard Rheingold: “Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.”
nytimes.com • Opinion | Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age - The New York Times
To humiliate an enemy, he warned, is to provide it with a vendetta.
Israel’s Zones of Denial
In Greek mythology, Chronos was “Father Time” and he devoured his own children. One son got away and rose above time to become a God; this was Zeus. He formed an uprising against time and became the king of the pantheon. I think the Gods preferred an alternate type of time called “Kairos” a fleeting moment that was pregnant with opportunity. It’s
... See moreGathering is the tender and thoughtful collection of goods for your kin, and a moment for reunion, for celebration, and for introspection around those goods.
Mindy Seu • On Gathering
Mindy Seu
It’s that great leadership is presence, not absence.
Nilay Patel • Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on What ‘Founder Mode’ Really Means - The Verge
a rate of con-sumption which tends to level everything out into an undifferentiated mass of high-quality description and trenchant reflection that be-comes both numbing and euphoric, a kind of Total Noise that’s also the sound of our U.S. culture right now, a culture and volume of info 1
David Foster Wallace • Deciderization 2007—a Special Report
David Foster Wallace on Total Noise