"We resist change. Committing ourselves to a small change, even one that is unmistakably in our best interest, is often more frightening than ignoring a dangerous situation. We are vehemently faithful

" 'Hello, good to see you.' This sentence can be said with the energy of anger, sweetness, sexiness, hatefulness, or coyness. You can speak with any energetic quality, pervading the concert hall of

" 'Real artists ship.' " - Steve Jobs Could it be that the difference between a generalist and a dabbler is just saying 'this is as done as it's going to be' and shipping the work? I think maybe

I received a comment from @brookethechicken on my post, "Stop Lying: You Love The Kardashians" about how everyone says they should quit social media, and many do ... but that it doesn't solve

"Myths tell us how to confront and bear and interpret suffering, but they do not say that in life there can or should be no suffering. When the Buddha declares there is escape from sorrow, the escape

"You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are

Everybody loves to hate soap operas, Kardashians, reality TV. ... and yet everyone watches them. Hate-watching. If your friend is watching, you need to be up on the drama. You need to take sides. Who sucks

"For your information in stories about the war I try to show all the different sides of it, taking it slowly and honestly and examining it from many ways. So never think one story represents my viewpoint

"You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know wat was in the newspapers that morning, you don't know who your friends are, you don't know what you owe anybody, you don't

"A lot of people don't understand good negotiating. They think it's about getting the best price -- no, no, no. Good negotiation is about figuring out what you can offer that's worth more to the other

"The first message is that there is disorder. Physicists and mathematicians want to discover regularities. People say, what use is disorder. But people have to know about disorder if they are going

"Muzzling a baby would certainly prevent him from crying but would not remove the cause of his emotions." - Nassim Taleb, Antifragile We all like to feel like we've done something even if there's

"Do you think it's more virtuous to do $5,000 worth of good for someone and get $0 in return, or to do $10,000 worth of good for someone and get $2,000 in return? ... Most people believe there's some

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness, via Austin Kleon Tomorrow is The Game. The Biggest

“Early zoologists classified as mammals those that suckle their young and as reptiles those that lay eggs. Then a duck-billed platypus was discovered in Australia laying eggs like a perfect reptile and

"Essentialists are powerful observers and listeners. Knowing that the reality of trade-offs means they can't possibly pay attention to everything, they listen deliberately for what is not being explicitly

Recall that the interventionista focuses on positive action — doing. Just like positive definitions, we saw that acts of commission are respected and glorified by our primitive minds and lead to, say,

Certainty is primitive, leads to “us versus them” tribalism, and starts wars. We should be united in our uncertainty, not divided over fabricated certainty. — Tim Urban, Religion for the Nonreligious,

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim, that a “drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon

It is likely that Lincoln had some sexual experiences during his travels as a surveyor, perhaps also with a prostitute in Beardstown, a town he visited regularly in 1835–1836 to help promote its canal.