Sean Rose

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I still bought many books, but more and more I read in them, rather than being whisked away by them. At some time impossible to pinpoint, I had begun to read more to be informed than to be immersed, much less to be transported.

Maryanne Wolf • Reader, Come Home

Stewart and the board had decided on our pricing plan early on: $9 per user per month, later amended to $8 (“because it felt better”). “Less than the cost of a catered lunch for your team, once a month,” Stewart would say to prospective customers.

getmatter.com • Preparing for launch

“But every writer is also a reader—I end up reading the text several times while I’m rewriting it.” In a mechanical sense, yes, you’re reading the text. But you’re not reading it for the same reasons as your readers will: to learn and possibly be persuaded.

Always be asking yourself: what does my reader want? Because your reader is... See more

Who is typography for? | Butterick’s Practical Typography

This, then, is the key sleight-of-hand at the heart of our psychosocial problems: We pretend we’re in charge, both to others and even to ourselves, but we’re less in charge than we think. We pose as privileged insiders, when in fact we’re often making the same kind of educated guesses that any informed outsider could make. We claim to know our own

Robin Hanson • The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

Human beings set out to encounter other worlds, other civilizations, without having fully gotten to know their own hidden recesses, their blind alleys, well shafts, dark barricaded doors.

Stanislaw Lem • Solaris

I believe that in nearly every instance where science fiction has successfully ‘predicted’ a turn of events, it’s more true to say that it has inspired that turn of events.

Cultivating Hyperstitions

Poet Mary Oliver on allowing yourself to be happy and full: "If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. ...whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb."