Sirnesto
@sirnesto
Believer in a bright future for humanity. Alarmed at current trajectories. Dad building the plane while flying it. PKM nerd.
Sirnesto
“Hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency." - Rebecca Solnit
“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
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“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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Remember what you must do when they undervalue you, when they think
your softness is your weakness, when they treat your kindness like it is their advantage.
You awaken every dragon, every wolf, every monster
that sleeps inside you and you remind them what hell looks like when it wears the skin of a gentle human.
Nikita Gill, Wild Embers: Poems of
... See more“Priorities Are Like Arms; If You Think You Have More Than A Couple, You're Either Lying Or Crazy.” Merlin Mann
“If you are looking for something in your house and you finally find it, when you're done with it, don't put it back where you found it. Put it back where you first looked for it.” - Kevin Kelly - My Addendum: this applies to notes in a PKM system too!
"but we also have the advantage of … we don’t have to be full of shit. We’re not actually a surveillance company. I’m not trying to pretend Facebook is good. I don’t have to toe a party line that is divorced from reality. And we aren’t Big Tech." (Andrew Deck, Signal President Meredith Whittaker on Resisting Government Threats to Privacy)