Michael Schreiber
@schreibrations
Michael Schreiber
You can't make this point better than Leslie Lamport did:
If you're thinking without writing, you only think you're thinking.
Paul Graham • Writes and Write-Nots
The ultimate way you and I get lucky is if you have some success early in life, you get to find out early it doesn’t mean anything. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
I could see that the Wasichus did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation’s hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. They had forgotten that the earth
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The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. That is real freedom. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default-setting, the "rat race"-the constant... See more
This is Water - Alumni Bulletin - Kenyon College
Experts and specialists are important contributors to most sustainability projects, but we also need integrators and generalists who can help to put the contribution of each discipline into systemic relationships and help to contextualize the contributions made by the specialists.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts
Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world.