If you want a new world, start making it right now, in whatever you are doing. - Brian Eno
From Dense Discovery Newsletter 2024
Modern luxury is the ability to think clearly, sleep deeply, move slowly, and live quietly in a world designed to prevent all four. - Justin Welsh
From Dense Discovery Newsletter 2024
It always seems impossible until it’s done. - Nelson Mandela
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. - Epictetus
It’s incorrect to say we eat food because we need the energy it contains. The conservation of energy means that it is neither created nor destroyed; we are radiating energy constantly, at pretty much the same rate that we absorb it. The difference is that the heat energy we radiate is a high-entropy form of energy, meaning it’s disordered. The chemical energy we absorb is a low-entropy form of energy, meaning it’s ordered. In effect, we are consuming order and generating disorder; we live by increasing the disorder of the universe. It’s only because the universe started in a highly ordered state that we are able to exist at all. - From Roger Penroses’s book The Emporer’s New Mind (via Ted Chiang’s Exhalation). Exhalation
The ultimate form of preparation is not planning for a specific scenario, but a mindset that can handle uncertainty. - James Clear (via Dense Discovery newsletter)
Anyone who thinks you can have infinite growth on a finite planet is either a madman or an economist. - Kenneth Boulding
Sometimes you don’t know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. - Gunnar Freyr (via Dense Discovery newsletter)
When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. - _Clay Shirky (via Dense Discovery newsleetter)
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. - Heraclitus
You’ll worry less about what people think of you when you realise how seldom they do. - David Foster Wallace
No gods, no masters. - Anarchist slogan
If you aren’t feeling like an imposter, then you’re likely stuck in your comfort zone. - Random guy in YouTube comments (regarding Imposter syndrome)
The universe is not only weirder than we understand. It is weirder than we are capable of understanding. - Albert Einstein