Michael Cervieri
@ronaut
Pondering bees and trees along the CT-RI border. Writing children’s stories.
Michael Cervieri
michael.cervieri.com
What I’m trying to say is that instead of thinking of the Earth as just another planet and life as ubiquitous in the universe, the truth is that Earth is not just another planet. The Earth is a very rare oasis that has supported life for at least three and a half billion years, which allowed for life to change and adapt to different environments th
... See more- In New York, people speak fast. In the American South, they speak slowly. Both of them are a form of politeness, understood in a different way. In New York, you speak quickly because you respect the value of the other person’s time and you don’t want to take up too much of it. In the South, you speak slowly because you want to respect the person by... See more
from Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent? by Adam Grant
- How do you organize your books?
Haphazardly, which is how I believe books wish to be organizedfrom Richard Osman Has a (Tiny) Bone to Pick With John Grisham by Richard Osman
Soon silence will have passed into legend.
Man has turned his back on silence.
Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation
Jean Arp
People do not want to believe it is true - Christian Åslund, The photographer capturing the vanishing of glaciers
- I built and sold a business that allowed me to retire at age 44. It was called Data Storage, Inc., information, knowledge, and records management is my jam. 10 Years ago I gave a speech about the half life of knowledge to a bunch of MBA aspirants at a university business school. This is the Twitter synopsis. The half life of knowledge is the ... See more
- Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.
Be dangerous, its careful out there
I have stored everything and saved nothing. – Ezra Klein