Brian Ramsey
@ramsey
Brian Ramsey
"My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man’s mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were. And if you done somethin wrong just stand up and say you done it and say you’re sorry and get on with it. Don’t haul stuff around with you."
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Through the corridors of all human experience has this Truth been echoed: Love is the answer. Yet you have not listened.
-Neale Donald Walsch
The law is provisional. It fails as often as it works. It's made up and improvised and inconsistent.
David Milch
“We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.”
Émile Zola
we could say that the light can only be discovered in the dark.
David Tacey • The Darkening Spirit: Jung, spirituality, religion
I think that part of people's problem is they're not in enough gangs. There's this great tension in life where you desperately want to belong to something else and you want to stand apart at the same time. You want to be special, but you want to be accepted, too.
“People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man’s duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.”
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
Since the generative AIs have been trained on the entirety of human work — most of it mediocre — it produces “wisdom of the crowd”-like results. They may hit the mark but only because they are average.
Noah Smith • Interview: Kevin Kelly, Editor, Author, and Futurist
I asked him if he really understood that strange dichotomy of being alone but still belonging—of true belonging