A delay in a balancing feedback loop makes the system likely to oscillate.
~ Donella Meadows
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If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don’t bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible psychological reason to stay at home.
~ David Foster Wallace
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We only become beasts — we become worse than beasts — when we torment others.
~ Iain Banks
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If conventional visions of success strike so many as bankrupt, how can writers earnestly reclaim—or even hold on to—ambition for art?
~ Lily Meyer via The Atlantic
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Full in-boxes and endless meetings are not intrinsic parts of office work in a digital world; they’re instead a response to an unexpected crisis that subsequently spiralled out of control. The turmoil in knowledge work following the arrival of the pandemic showed the unsustainability of this state of affairs.
~ Cal Newport via The New Yorker
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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In the past 20 years, the United States has gone from leading China in 60 of the 64 “frontier technologies” identified by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute to now trailing in all but seven.
~ Oren Cass via The New York Times
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As much as any other institution—schools, libraries, churches—the public-health system has helped propagate the idea of a commons, often working against historical inertia to curb the excesses of American individualism. That work has always required energy and effort from the people. And so it has always been vulnerable, because that energy and effort could dissipate at any time.
~ Vann Newkirk via The Atlantic
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No love can survive muteness.
~ Milan Kundera
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When your local hospital and nursing home get loaded with debt, cut back on staffing and start charging more for worse patient outcomes, that’s financialization as tragedy. When airlines earn more by selling miles to credit card companies than by flying passengers, with consumers footing the hidden bill every time they swipe at the register, financialization has become farce.
~ Oren Cass via The New York Times
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