“Early the following morning, for the first time in years, I tipped into my coffee a heaped spoon of sugar. I watched the confined, nut-brown disc of fluid turn then slow in its clockwise motion, then lose all purpose in a chaotic swell. Tempting, but I resisted a metaphor for my own existence.”

Machines Like Me, Ian McEwan

“The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/technology/evan-williams-mediu

KOBE'S 1O RULES

1. GET BETTER EVERY SINGLE DAY

2. PROVE THEM WRONG

3. WORK ON YOUR WEAKNESSES

4. EXECUTE WHAT YOU PRACTICED

5. LEARN FROM GREATNESS

6. LEARN FROM WINS & LOSSES

7. PRACTICE MINDFULNESS

8. BE AMBITIOUS

9. BELIEVE IN YOUR TEAM

10. LEARN STORYTELLING

“As she stepped forward on the empty board, it was for her like walking into space. Space, such as the condos have shrill inklings off, and the cock-eagle glimpses through his blood.”

Titus Groan, Melvyn Peake.

The mistake we made was turning phones into toys for having fun, rather than honing them as tools for getting stuff done.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

They shouldn’t have that much to say, they shouldn’t expect to receive such a large audience for that expression, and they shouldn’t suppose a right to comment or rejoinder for every thought or notion either. From being asked to review every product you buy to believing that every tweet or Instagram image warrants likes or comments or follows, soci

‘The whispering tree,’ I murmured. How strange, that with just a few words something which I had always found unattractive was now transformed into a thing of beauty.

The House of Doors, Tan Tan Eng.

“Observing that demand for finer goods serves vastly different purposes and has different origins, Sombart suggests another distinction, namely that between idealistic or altruistic luxury and materialistic, egoistic luxury.

The former refers to expenditure on finer goods for public or ecclesiastical purposes, and he offers a gilded altar as an exa