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It's easy to think of ourselves as separated from everything, but this is not true. We are as much the universe as a neutron star or a black hole or a nebula. Even better, actually, we are its thinking and feeling part: the centre organs of the universe.
Kurzgesagt • Optimistic Nihilism
There are no new ingredients in the universe, and humans – however they may look – are made of roughly the same things we are.
Matt Haig • The Humans
The teeming hordes of living things on Earth, not only in space but in time, are actually all one massive, single organism just as certainly as each one of us (in our own minds) seems to be a distinct human being throughout our limited lifetime... Each of us is, equally, an independent living human and also just one utterly minute, utterly brief... See more
Maria Popova • Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being
thing? Here we are, in this incomprehensibly large universe, on this one tiny moon around this one incidental planet, and in all the time this entire scenario has existed, every component has been recycled over and over and over again into infinitely incredible configurations, and sometimes, those configurations are special enough to be able to see
... See moreBecky Chambers • A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot Book 1)
It never ceases to stagger that some stroke of chance in the early history of the universe set into motion the Rube Goldberg machine of events that turned atoms born in the first stars into you — into this temporary clump of borrowed stardust that, for the brief interlude between not having existed and no longer existing, gets to have ideas and ice... See more
On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
William Zinsser • 14 highlights
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Real-time editing of my newsletter intro...
This was the first sentence I wrote:
"My newest podcast episode shows you how to improve..."
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"My newest podcast episode explains how to improve..."
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"My newest podcast episode reveals how to improve..."
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This was the first sentence I wrote:
"My newest podcast episode shows you how to improve..."
Then I edited it to this:
"My newest podcast episode explains how to improve..."
Then I edited it to this:
"My newest podcast episode reveals how to improve..."
Then I edited it to this:
"My newest podcast episode... See more