Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
The more free time we have to pursue the activities that matter to us, the wealthier we are.
Martin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
In Norway, leading politicians fortunately walk among the electorate. They see us and we see them. They shop where we shop and have their coffee in the same coffee shops as those who put them in power.
Erling Kagge • Walking: One Step at a Time
The almost-35-year-old Terry Schmidt had very nearly nothing left anymore of the delusion that he differed from the great herd of the common run of men, not even in his despair at not making a difference or in the great hunger to have an impact that in his late twenties he’d clung to as evidence that even though he was emerging as sort of a failure
... See moreDavid Foster Wallace • Oblivion: Stories
Only a very free society would permit – and even encourage – such endless claims about its own iniquities.
Douglas Murray • The Madness of Crowds
Irrational expectation of rationality.
Laurence Endersen • Pebbles of Perception: How a Few Good Choices Make All The Difference
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
If algorithms delve into every corner of our lives until nothing inexplicable remains, the loss will be tremendous.
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
Living a long life without anyone needing you, no one really caring if you live or die, is liberation, but the terrible implications of liberation emerge with time.