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Freud, as a man of the Enlightenment, so to speak, believes in knowledge; but he also shows us how knowledge can be the death of curiosity; and that c

The idea isn’t to find oneself another environment tomorrow—be it a new job or a new economy—but to be constantly creating the environment and communi

The best marketers are farmers, not hunters. Plant, tend, plow, fertilize, weed, repeat. Let someone else race around after shiny objects.

You have to read widely, constantly refining (and redefining) your own work as you do so.

He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without a

Central vision is used for accurate work like reading, in which our eyes are focused on one small area after another like spotlights. Peripheral visio

Nietzsche emphasized this point when he contrasted the originality of his walk-stimulated ideas with those produced by the bookish scholar locked in a