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Don’t write off blue collar work because you’re smart.

Eric Hoffer was a philosopher who spent most of his life doing manual labor as a fruit packer and longshoreman, before ending his career as a professor at Berkeley with several best selling books to his name.

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@brokenbarpublic @CollinRugg Nice AI

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@LaInaMinute Horrible airport, horrible shuttle and facility. 0 of 5 stars.

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The George Peabody Library at Johns Hopkins

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Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage we did not take

towards the door we never opened

into the rose garden.

― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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I’m not very active on Twitter anymore, but I’m writing up a storm on Substack. Would love to see some of you over there. Link in comments.

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When I was a student, spending the day on technical literature, I made it a habit to read for 45-60 minutes at night to get my mind off things. I read Anna Karenina this way. Magic Mountain. Brothers Karamazov. Sleepwalkers (Broch - not enough people know this one).

Later working I kept this up as far as I could. Kundera came in. I read War and Peace mostly on the Subway. Houellebecq.

It can be a therapeutic thing. You disengage from the day to day - which can be very unpleasant - and let someone smarter than you inhabit your mind. And that will make you smarter. And happier probably.

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More people would read poetry if it was still written like this.

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Down in the withered grasses something stirred

I thought it was his footfall that I heard.
Then a grasshopper chirred

I climbed the hill just as the new moon showed, I saw him coming on the southern road.

My heart lays down its load.

- the Shi King

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@L0m3z Solzhenitsyn speaks of the submission of victims thus:

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking…We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

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@MZHemingway Whoever wrote this has never had friends

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@avidseries No that’s fine.

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@avidseries With hootsuite and buffer, I’m super efficient at posting. Replies, graphics and engagement farming would be the most time committment, but honestly, if I’m having fun I’ll have no problem spending way too much time on this.

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“There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.”

Charles Dickens