Minsuk Kang 강민석
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Minsuk Kang 강민석
Quotes from Taleb’s The Bed of Procrustes.
I just write what seems to me to feel true. To feel emotionally true. When there’s emotional truth, there follows a rhythm, and I think a beauty of image, because you’re seeing clearly. Because of the simplicity of what you see.
Adrian Zupp • Lucia Berlin: Writing Advice and More in This Never-Before Published Interview
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something—a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things—that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it’s as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
Ruby LaRocca • A Constitution for Teenage Happiness
people don’t buy products when they understand them. they buy products when they feel understood.
We continue to ask the same questions that were asked by Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and others. We may not accept their answers and it's very likely that we do not, but their questions are often put with a kind of unrivaled clarity and insight. The fact is that there are still people in the world, many people, who regard themselves as... See more
Dan Holenstein • Notesnook
A skeptical New York Times review of the World’s Fair television demonstration wrote that “[t]he problem with television is that people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it.” It was soon proven incorrect – though there were only a few hundred television sets in use in the United States by
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When I was a kid, it seemed as if work and fun were opposites by definition. Life had two states: some of the time adults were making you do things, and that was called work; the rest of the time you could do what you wanted, and that was called playing.
paulgraham.com • How to Do What You Love
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