Max Beauroyre
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Max Beauroyre
To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal— to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.
Farnam Street • Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life
At the current rate of technological advance, all reliable ways of validating truth will soon be gone. My best guess is that we have another 12 months to enjoy some degree of confidence in our shared sense of reality.
Our Shared Reality Will Self-Destruct in the Next 12 Months
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Ted Gioia • How We Lost the Flow
In 1661, André Le Nôtre completed the gardens at Vaux-le-Vicomte for Nicolas Fouquet, the French finance minister. The gardens were so spectacular that Louis XIV, upon visiting, had Fouquet arrested on embezzlement charges that historians now consider largely fabricated, and hired Le Nôtre to build something even bigger at Versailles.