the goal is not to separate the strands, it's to document the tangle.
(Ann Friedman)
Whenever there is an argument between two ideas, find the third idea.
still one of my favorite lines of all time:
and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?
- charles bukowski
The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.
Edward O. Wilson, debate at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, Mass., 9 September 2009
Peter Attia: "One of the things about our society that's problematic is everybody wants an elevator pitch for everything."
@PeterAttiaMD https://t.co/tCHdZGyT1G
Reaching wide audiences requires all-terrain language, and the urgency of the present moment, amplified by chronological feeds, doesn’t allow for much stylistic variety. Efficiency is key — compressing as much information as possible to the least amount of words is the ideal of all communication.
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