Sara
@sara
Just a girl connecting things.
Sara
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The twinkling of an eye. That is the most wonderful expression. I've thought from time to time it was the best thing in life, that little incandescence you see in people when the charm of a thing strikes them, or the humor of it. "The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart." That's a fact.
Marilynne Robinson • Gilead
Tech independence is not depending on any particular company or software .
The only tools you need are the common open source basics built into any Linux or BSD operating system — free public-domain tools that are not owned by anyone , and can run on any computer.
Learn a few of these basic tools , and you can run your own private server on any com... See more
The only tools you need are the common open source basics built into any Linux or BSD operating system — free public-domain tools that are not owned by anyone , and can run on any computer.
Learn a few of these basic tools , and you can run your own private server on any com... See more
Tech Independence | Derek Sivers
The first line of defense is accepting that the new system will fail, possibly in several ways. When I find myself thinking, "I must have this change because I can't afford failures," then I'm in big trouble. If I can't afford some failures, a new system won't help. And neither will an old one.
Weinberg, Gerald • The Secrets of Consulting
Gluttonous, hoarding jay; he should have hedge-hopped and lurched from tree to tree in his usual furtive manner. He should never have bared the white flashes of his wings and rump to the watching sky. He was too vivid a mark, as he dazzled slowly across the green water-meadows.
J. A. Baker • The Peregrine
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For many of the founding fathers, the principle of basic equality was consistent with some people being the property of others; in 1776 the abolitionist Thomas Day remarked that “if there be an object truly ridiculous in nature, it is an American patriot, signing resolutions of independency with the one hand, and with the other brandishing a whip o
... See moreAmia Srinivasan • More Equal Than Others
The credence that could no longer be given to realities understood in the form of images was now being given to realities understood to be images, illusions. In the preface to the second edition (1843) of The Essence of Christianity, Feuerbach observes about “our era” that it “prefers the image to the thing, the copy to the original, the representa
... See moreSusan Sontag • On Photography
The advocates of a fourth philosophy maintain that time has run its course and this life is no more than the fading reflection of an event beyond recall. We simply do not know how many of its possible mutations the world may already have gone through, or how much time, always assuming that it exists, remains. All that is certain is that night lasts
... See moreWinfried Georg Sebald • The Rings of Saturn
I think there are things in life that you want to telescope and compress and accelerate and streamline and make more efficient. And there are things where the value is precisely in the inefficiency, in the time spent, in the pain endured, in the effort you have to invest. And I don’t think we’re going to differentiate between those things. Because ... See more
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
IT is not that someone else is preventing you from living happily; you yourself do not know what you want. Rather than admit this, you pretend that someone is keeping you from exercising your liberty. Who is this? It is you yourself.
BUT as long as you pretend to live in pure autonomy, as your own master, without even a god to rule you, you will ine