Sirnesto

“I'm looking back at that happy man, myself, as he stands there-soaked in summer moonlight on that Thursday night in August.

He's happy because the scene is beautiful; and because he's in love; and because his novel is finished—he only just did the very last thing, correcting the galleys-and its first readers are excited by it. His life feels good.

“The world is bursting with wonder, and yet it’s the rare productivity guru who seems to have considered the possibility that the ultimate point of all our frenetic doing might be to experience more of that wonder.” - Oliver Burkeman from Four Thousand Weeks

“Long-term, healthy patterns of social organization, among all social life-forms, it seemed to me, hinged on work that maintained the integrity of the community while at the same time granting autonomy to its individuals. What made a society beautiful was some combination of autonomy and deference that, together, minimized strife.” Barry Lopez from

If you can’t solve for the hardest part, the part with the most uncertainty, there’s no point in doing anything else.

“As climactic change begins to affect long-range strategic planning for human survival, as the Earth's stocks of pelagic food fish plummet, as dry-land aquifers are drained, we can easily believe we've been shortsighted in a loss of intimacy with place, in largely ignoring the impact geography has on our daily lives.” Barry Lopez from embrace

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Tim Ferriss from Tribe of Mentors