“I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought.”

Rebecca Solnit via Travelling At The Speed of Soul

"Nothing is easier than to accumulate facts, nothing is so hard as to use them."

Excellence —> compounding

“Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.”

Richard Hamming - You and Your Research

“I have developed a rule. When it comes to acts of kindness, I do not beat myself up for failing to do what didn’t occur to me, or what I forgot to do. I do not beat myself up for being too consumed by my own needs, for being too sad or too tired. 

Instead, if it occurs to me to do something small and kind, and if I have the means and the motiv

“Becoming a person of place allows you to be hopeful, be angry, be defensive, be overcome with fear, and flooded with courage, defiance, and strength. Becoming a person of place will grant you the reinforcing framework to sustain climate-positive behavior and will fortify you with the resilience of a restored connection to the world that needs

What I did not account for was how my expectations would scale alongside my experience. As I got better at writing weekly pieces, I began to demand more of myself. I did not want to write as good a piece as I had written the week or month before but a considerably better one. In the quest to do that, I expanded the scope of my work. I found new res

There is a nonphysical aspect to life. Call it consciousness, call it the spirit or soul:

There is something beyond the physical about us. That nonphysical element is the part that disconnected from my son’s body when he left. The handsome form he left behind on that intensive-care table was no longer him. You could feel it, you could feel that his