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A biographer of the novelist E. M. Forster wrote, “To speak to him was to be seduced by an inverse charisma, a sense of being listened to with such intensity that you had to be your most honest, sharpest, and best self.” Imagine how good it would be to be that guy.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“I’m no genius, but I’m smart in spots, and I stay around those spots.” —Thomas Watson, Sr., Founder of IBM
Shane Parrish • What Can We Learn From the Prolific Mr. Asimov?
But McLuhan would say, try not to only think about the fact that we make the tools. Think about how much the tools make us as well.
Marshall McLuhan • Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
home than elsewhere, increasing efficiency of communication and of controlling human behavior can, instead of liberating us into the air like birds, fix us to the ground like toadstools. All information will come in by super-realistic television and other electronic devices as yet in the planning stage or barely imagined. In one way this will enabl
... See moreAlan W. Watts • The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
