Justin Lancy

We’ve greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

Disciplines, like nations, are a necessary evil that enable human beings of bounded rationality to simplify their goals and reduce their choices to calculable limits. But parochialism is everywhere, and the world badly needs international and interdisciplinary travelers to carry new knowledge from one enclave to another. —Herbert A. Simon[14]

The one thing technology doesn’t provide us with is a sense of how to make the best use of technology.

We want to travel the untravelled road. We should learn to tell untold stories; stories that wander off the high road; stories like roads untaken. This is the only cure for the despair that all the stories have been told, that there are no new stories under the sun. All the high road stories have been told, but not the hidden roads stories that lea

No one is free who is not master of himself. Pythagoras

The technology is not what matters. Words are what matter. The sharing of words. The activation of imagination through the reading of words.

Good stories tend us towards clarity and transcendence.

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.