Sirnesto
@sirnesto
Believer in a bright future for humanity. Alarmed at current trajectories. Dad building the plane while flying it. PKM nerd.
Sirnesto
“Giving people more control over what they do and how they do it increases their happiness, engagement, and sense of fulfillment.” - Cal Newport
"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts”
- Marcus Aurelius
“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
... See more"Festina lente - Make haste, slowly"- Greek and Latin proverb, adopted by Augustus and commonly attributed to him.
“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.
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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
“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
— T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
— T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)