Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class (Forerunners: Ideas First)
amazon.com
Weaver was a professor of rhetoric.
Richard M. Weaver • Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
“Her intellectual gifts do but minister to a moral character that is the noblest and best balanced I have ever met with in life.”
Kieran Setiya • Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
Fight to remain the person that philosophy wished to make you.
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs… Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it… —Rudyard Kipling, If—
Burton G. Malkiel • A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Tenth Edition)
But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every word that serves no function, every long word that could be a short word, every adverb that carries the same meaning that’s already in the verb, every passive construction that leaves the reader unsure of who is doing what—these are the thousand and one adul
... See moreWilliam Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
The measure of what is necessary is what is useful.