Sick in bed and (oh well) getting a chance to reread some books, courtesy of libby. Some books need to be re-read over and over again:
Naval’s Almanack
4000 weeks
Consolations of Philosophy
The minimalists
Incognito
Author: Karen
Whining
Mostly a half-arse reader. I don’t read from cover to cover or even bother with books at all. I just go to goodreads, get to the juicy quotes and consider it done. Here are some from Silvia Hartmann.
“It is the hardest thing of all, the one thing that will show if you have the one true courage. To know that you have failed, that your best efforts have been defeated, to not be able to stand it, to not be able to go on and yet to go on nonetheless.”
“One should not confuse creativity with whining.”
But I might be looking for yet another quote.
They took off the lights
Headed to a dark place.
Red Queen Effect
for the character in Alice in Wonderland who said, “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.”
Can’t
“If you say I can’t,” said Crews, “I have to find out if I can’t. I won’t take your word for it.”
Apartners
What a cute term! by way of AggieSez
“I want you. I need you. I just don’t want to live with you.”
One more thing
You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in
Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
Reading links
Discovered Naval Ravikant too late. Reading his Almanac.
Currently unimpressed by , but reading read Bed of Procrustes
Re-starting on Tools of Titans.
Who is Jed McKenna
“The point is to wake up, not to earn a Ph.D. In waking up.”
― Jed McKenna