Sublime

A good conversationalist is capable of leading people on a mutual expedition toward understanding.

“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they are finished.”

the quality of our lives and the health of our society depends, to a large degree, on how well we treat each other in the minute interactions of daily life.

Our work culture’s shift toward the shallow (whether you think it’s philosophically good or bad) is exposing a massive economic and personal opportunity for the few who recognize the potential of resisting this trend and prioritizing depth—an opportunity that, not too long ago, was leveraged by a bored young consultant from Virginia named Jason Ben

I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have not yet given up on the idea that the experience of literature offers a kind of wisdom that cannot be discovered elsewhere; that there is profundity in the verbal encounter itself, never mind what further profundities