Cassandre Bouchard

When we just say whatever pops into our heads, we may think we’re making craggy, climbable conversational rock walls, when in fact we’re creating completely frictionless surfaces.

As I get older, the world shrinks, and my life becomes more predictable. When I was 16, everything counted as a “new experience”: driving to Wawa after school to buy my own snacks; heck, driving itself. Then at 18, leaving for college, and in my twenties, traveling the world. Then buying a house, trying to make a marriage work, getting a divorce,... See more

Simone Weil once said, “Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).”

Stephen Jay Gould wrote in The Panda's Thumb: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops".

In a 2019 interview with Stella Bugbee for New York Magazine , Kevin Systrom (co-founder of Instagram) said “At the beginning, when we were small, there were no influencers. I think once we crossed say, I don’t know, 100 million people, it became clear that you could maybe start to have an interesting business if you were just on Instagram.