The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
~ Blaise Pascal
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving.
~ James Baldwin
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Anthropologically, money should be defined as a semantic system, broadly similar to language; writing, or weights and measures. These systems differ mainly in the purposes served and the signs employed. Language and writing serve the purpose of the communication of ideas, weights and measures that of quantitative physical relationship. As to signs, language uses oral sounds; writing employs ideograms or visual characters; weights and measures, on the other hand, use physical objects as the basis of symbols.
― Karl Polanyi
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In school, a lot of success is individual: How do I stand out? In life, most success is team-based: How can we work together? Grades reveal who is persistent, self-disciplined, and compliant—but they don’t reveal much about emotional intelligence, relationship skills, passion, leadership ability, creativity, or courage.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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[Twitter] @gtdguy
Yakobus Cavell here. I first read Getting Things Done in 2003 – about two years after David Allen’s seminal book was first published. I read his follow up Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life almost immediately after it was released in 2008. For some reason I didn’t get around to reading Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done until this past September.
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Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Like so many other scientific scandals, the one Juliana Schroeder had identified quickly sank into a swamp of closed-door reviews and taciturn committees. Schroeder says that Harvard Business School declined to investigate her evidence of data-tampering, citing a policy of not responding to allegations made more than six years after the misconduct is said to have occurred.
~ Daniel Engber
via The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
published in The Atlantic on November 19, 2024
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
~ Walter Bagehot
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The road to the free market was opened and kept open by an enormous increase in continuous, centrally organized and controlled interventionism. To make Adam Smith’s “simple and natural liberty” compatible with the needs of a human society was a most complicated affair.
― Karl Polanyi
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