Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!" - Winston Churchill
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch
"Nothing like a health problem to turn up the contrast dial for the rest of your life." - Naval Ravikant
"Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life." - Jerzy Gregorek
"The real truths are heresies. They cannot be spoken. Only discovered, whispered, and perhaps read." - Naval Ravikant (Image via)
Mill almost immediately adds "especially if the writer has a conscience."
It was ever thus.
1. The Godfather
2. Brian's Song
3. Misery
4. Rollerball
5. (tie) Honeymoon in Vegas (tie) Gardens of Stone
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"It's just that I'd rather die of drink than of thirst." - Ian Fleming
"Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous.... in war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times." - Winston Churchill
"Most of the time, someone saying that you 'have to invest' has a financial interest in 'having you invest.'" - Jack Raines
"None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison
Interesting and well done profile of Jordan Peterson. This is the bit that resonated my thinking on Professor Peterson:
"The storm that surrounds him is as much an indicator of how far the elite establishment in our culture has shifted," [Carl] Trueman told me. "The things that Peterson is saying 30 or 40 years ago would have passed without notice. Or they would have been regarded as common sense and good manners. The fact that he's now the center of a storm is a remarkable sign of the times. And, to be honest, a rather depressing and disturbing one."
California is cutting cannabis taxes in hopes of saving struggling pot businesses.
Regulations have been driving prices so high that a person buying from the unregulated "legacy market" is likely to pay 50% less than if they buy from a licensed dispensary...
In plain English if you buy a bag of weed from a street dealer you may pay $25 but that same amount of weed would cost you $50 at a "legal" dispensary. The article estimates that 80% of pot is still bought on the "underground, legacy, unregulated market."
California really has screwed up a wet dream.
Morgan Housel on external benchmarks vs internal measures of happiness.
He uses the tales of two sailors to emphasize his point.
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm." - Winston Churchill
"Sworn to no master, of no sect am I. As drives the storm, at any door I knock." - Alexander Pope
"A pupil for whom nothing is ever demanded which he cannot do, never does all he can." - John Stuart Mill
"The challenges you face introduce you to your strengths." - Epictetus
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
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How Peter Gabriel's Solsbury Hill inadvertently became a Hollywood soundtrack staple.
Big fan of both Peter Gabriel and Solsbury Hill. Always thought the song was based upon the book I Heard the Owl Call My Name but I'm probably mistaken on that (though the book and song do synch up very nicely).
While we're talking about Peter Gabriel - I should mention that I consider his 1986 album So to be one of the so called "perfect albums" where every song is great and it would be hard picturing changing anything.
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"The universe is not only stranger than we imagine; it is stranger than we can imagine." - J.B.S. Haldane
"Equipped with his five sense, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science." - Edwin Hubble
"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals." - Larry Bird
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." - Charles Darwin
