March 2012
333 posts
fick ja Hermann Hesse: hand-me-downs-et-cetera:... →
hand-me-downs-et-cetera:
You, my son, have much to learn about goals.
Rilke warned you about the wind that
Accompanies you on the winding road
That carries scents of a sweet future
That carries you onward towards that green hill.
But he failed to mention the…
February 2012
224 posts
“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been....”
– Eve Ensler (via gentlemanlypursuits)
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Watchskepttv:
Ideal Rationality
2012 Chicago Skepticamp
Ivan Phillips
Ivan is a software developer with an academic background in theoretical physics. Recently, he co-founded The Rational Future Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising public awareness of human cognitive bias and of the principles of rationality.
via doubtingmarcus:
In one of my favorite talks from Chicago...
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Meow. I want to make a film now. Any willing actors out there?
I’ll make the script as soon as I know who’s willing to play along. :3
Incompetent People Too Ignorant to Know It →
brabomb:
youmightfindyourself:
A growing body of psychology research shows that incompetence deprives people of the ability to recognize their own incompetence. To put it bluntly, dumb people are too dumb to know it. Similarly, unfunny people don’t have a good enough sense of humor to tell.
This disconnect may be responsible for many of society’s problems.
With more than a decade’s worth of...
“I used to tell people poetry is hidden in everything. It isn’t hiding. It is...”
– Derrick Brown (via jacketweather)
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“I paint in order not to cry.”
– Paul Klee (via fourteenth)
“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller (via livejamie)
“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
– Buddha (via bearbearpdx)
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