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The erosion of work being a key part of identity. Stability takes priority over wealth and passion. Fulfillment is found elsewhere.

Jonny Hawton • Scar Tissue - Predictions of the Long-Term Bahaviorial Scars of the 2020 Recession on Gen Z

“broken windows theory” of disorder within neighborhoods.

Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse

In every man, heredity and environment have combined to produce a creature of certain abilities and desires— including a deeply ingrained need to function in such a way that his life will be MEANINGFUL. A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

Farnam Street • Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life

Here is where culture enters the picture. I mean“culture” in its anthropological rather than artisticsense. What values and practices can hold people to-gether as the institutions in which they live fragment? My generation suffered from a want of imagination inanswering this question, in advancing the virtues ofsmall-scale community. Co

Richard Sennett • The Culture of the New Capitalism

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Frederick P. Brooks Jr. • Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering

Margaret Mead says every human group makes a simple rule: thou shalt not kill members of our gang, but everyone else is fair game. According to Mead, each group says that all humans are brothers and declares that murdering humans is out of the question. Most groups, however, have very strange means of defining who is human.

Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History

Auren Hoffman: It used to be that “who you know” — not “what you know” — held the most value. But in the last 15 years, it has become much more important to build something than to know people.

future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future

They tend to be hedgehogs, not foxes. In the famous formulation, the fox knows many things and can see the world with an opposable mind, from many points of view. But the hedgehog knows one thing, has one big idea around which his or her life revolves. This is the mentality that committed community weavers tend to have.

David Brooks • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

Colleges don’t simply teach you skills. They socialize students into the culture of the world they will be entering and introduce them to others who are already part of that culture. This is no different from an immigrant going to the Ivies in the 1920s. And that is the point. The declining class is not immigrants. The political consequences of tha