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"“Human nature likes order,” wrote the economist Burton Malkiel in his seminal book A Random Walk Down Wall Street. “People find it hard to accept the notion of randomness.”" (Justin Gregg, If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal)
“The concept of the sacred and the archival is being lost because of the novel environment of the internet.”
-Eric Weinstein
Page named Harris to the newly invented position of “product philosopher.” But then: Nothing much changed. In a 2016 profile in the Atlantic, Harris blamed the lack of changes to the “inertia” of the organization and a lack of clarity about what he was advocating.
Cal Newport • Digital Minimalism
A Lesson On Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business – Charles Munger, USC Business School, 1994
Charlie Mungerstrongfitlibrary.comSomeone like Uncle Charles makes unbelief plausible but far from inevitable. You now know someone who doesn’t believe in God or transcendence, contending that all is material, but that’s all it is until freshman biology or physics 101.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
He observed that humans have many ‘higher’ needs that are in fact very sensible and good, and yet that currently lie outside of capitalist enterprise: among these, our need for education, for self-understanding, for beautiful cities and for rewarding social lives.
The School of Life Press • Great Thinkers: Simple Tools from 60 Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today (The School of Life Library)
EZRA KLEIN: Yeah, how would you know is, I think, often a harder problem that we give it credit for. Why in proximity?
GEORGE SAUNDERS: Well, I think that’s the place to start. And s... See more