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when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create. why the lucky stiff I won’t deny that Battlestar Galactica and House give me significant pleasure. Surely I would miss them if I stopped watching, but I think a line can be [...]

I have a great deal of respect for the people who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of solutions that help everyone in the world. Notably, Karen Armstrong delivered a speech (found via Chris) at the TED conference this year discussing the current problems with religion in the world. I have tremendous respect for her [...]

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. Theodore Roosevelt An effective leader is not an autocrat. The best leaders who build the most support and achieve the most [...]

Your screeching smoke detector wakes you up and you smell smoke. Adrenaline is pumped throughout your system and you’re on your feet at the doorway, staring at a hazy room with flames in the background. What are you doing to make this situation better? You’re at a family gathering during the holidays. Everyone is having [...]

I’m hesitant to agree with Paul Graham’s definitions: ‘Wise’ and ‘smart’ are both ways of saying someone knows what to do. I would say that wisdom is moderation and decisiveness over time, which does keep the spirit of Paul’s definition, but that intelligence or “smarts” are simply the capacity or aptitude for problem solving. That [...]

What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!Henry David Thoreau

There is a dreadful anxiety surrounding nudity in some modern countries, most notably the United States. [...]

There are unique conditions in Western culture and the United States specifically that highlight vast differences from other cultures and past times with respect to consumption and production. It should be obvious that technology has given Western culture a large lever with which to accelerate its levels of both consumption and production. Still though, there [...]

It seems that most of the people who “go insane” while thinking too much and who become too absorbed by questions, or those who get engulfed in MMORPGs just fail to establish and adhere to a set of basic ground rules. If you want to think abstractly about the meaning of the word “is” or [...]