A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the
brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
This is not about drinking….
-Alexandra Pope
Everybody’s great when there’re not tired. When you’re tired, that’s when the real champion comes out. That’s when the real dog comes out. Because if you’re gonna piss like a puppy stay on the porch and let the big dogs eat!!!
-NFL player
Thoughts;
Once you reach one goal, your eyes move to the next, desire is endless and your wants keep growing until you forget what mattered most. The one thing you can never have, the thing you’d give everything for, that’s what you truly want.
The ultimate purpose of life, mind and human striving; to deploy energy and information to fight back the tide of entropy and carve out refuges of beneficial order.
~Steven Pinker
To understand human nature, read the older books. To develop specific knowledge, stay on the bleeding edge, read newer (technical) books.
The best authors - Deutsch, Schopenhauer, Borges, Ted Chiang - write with very high density. The best authors respect the reader’s time.
How much of the suffering of the world is a consequence of presumptuous overreach; of the desire to usurp, and to claim for ourselves something that we cannot manage, do not deserve, and should serve instead of strive to so falsely master?
#wewhowrestlewithGod