Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.
~ Sun Tzu
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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In its exclusion of links, minimization of text, and encouragement of gauzy filters, Instagram turns every smartphone into its own little Silver Pavilion, through which the user can both cultivate a world and blot out what they don’t wish to see.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.
~ Sun Tzu
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In its exclusion of links, minimization of text, and encouragement of gauzy filters, Instagram turns every smartphone into its own little Silver Pavilion, through which the user can both cultivate a world and blot out what they don’t wish to see.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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COVID finds
Early 2000s Panasonic Cookbook
A few weeks ago I checked in with my parents – who live near Hilton, New York. I found this Panasonic Cookbook on a bookshelf in her downstairs reading room. Living through COVID has changed the way I think about those years when I was an undergraduate student and would visit my parents on a regular basis. I fear what comes next, and so I cling more to what I remember from years gone past. I quietly tucked this away in my suitcase and put it on my own bookshelf in my basement study for safe keeping.
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“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
~ Sun Tzu
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Speed is the essence of war. Take advantage of the enemy’s unpreparedness; travel by unexpected routes and strike him where he has taken no precautions.
~ Sun Tzu
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The longer one lives in this world, the more tempting it becomes to escape, and to disappear.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
~ Sun Tzu
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As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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