"To think, you have to write. If you're thinking without writing, you only think you're thinking. […] Everyone thinks they think. If you don't write down your thoughts, you are fooling yourself." — Leslie Lamport
The desire for a life of focus, for more ‘coherence’ than ‘incoherence’ feels like a characteristically contemporary yearning.
Seth continued, “You can’t begin by asking, ‘How do we make it just like the others and make it remarkable?’ You have to ask, ‘How do we make it different from the others so it is remarkable?’”