Sublime

Knowledge increasingly needs not merely to be durable, but also flexible—both sticky and capable of broad application.

Doblin is disarmingly, perhaps helplessly, candid,

By choosing a unique and personal fixed point, in Mill’s view, you are not only raising the odds of finding a path worth staying on, but you are also serving an important role in pushing culture forward.

at the end of the day, it’s the child’s experience that really matters.

As he headed up the Allee toward his parents’ building, under a sun that now seemed wan, he mentally scurried to rationalize what he’d done to the magazine editor—tried to tell himself that she’d gotten only what every apparatchik deserved, that she was being punished for her own stupidity in failing to notice the obvious acrostics, and that, in an

“We fail,” he wrote, when we stick with “tasks we don’t have the guts to quit.”

Ceaseless change is an unreliable basis for lasting fulfillment.

She was a harbinger of the sub rosa, the new world awaiting me in just a few weeks.

She also understands its fallacies and is wary of endless analysis. Let data decide, she believes, but don’t let it take over.