Sirnesto

@sirnesto

Believer in a bright future for humanity. Alarmed at current trajectories. Dad building the plane while flying it. PKM nerd.

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"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts”

- Marcus Aurelius

“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

Philosophy of PKM

"Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love."

-J.R.R. Tolkien

The Supreme Court decides not to disenfranchise thousands of swing state voters - Vox

Ian Millhiser • The Supreme Court decides not to disenfranchise thousands of swing state voters — Vox

"Festina lente - Make haste, slowly"- Greek and Latin proverb, adopted by Augustus and commonly attributed to him.

Philosophy of PKM

The progressive movement is someone who spends every day hammering onto a nail,” Sean told me during one of our conversations, “and someone comes up and says, ‘You f---ing idiot, that’s a screw.’

Philosophy of PKM

“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.” - Leonardo da Vinci

Philosophy of PKM

The Questions That Will Get Me Through the Pandemic

John Dickerson theatlantic.com

“The human epistemologies, the six thousand spoken ways of knowing God, are like the six thousand ways a river can run down from high country to low, like the six thousand ways dawn might break over the Atacama, the Tanami, the Gobi, or the Sonoran … Each place is itself only, and nowhere repeated. Miss it and it's gone.” - Barry Lopez, from