Tolkien party
Date: August 8, 2022
Categories: general
The Hedgehog and the Fox – Wikipedia
Date: June 22, 2022
Categories: general
The title is a reference to a fragment attributed to the Ancient Greek poet Archilochus: πόλλ’ οἶδ’ ἀλώπηξ, ἀλλ’ ἐχῖνος ἓν μέγα (“a fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing”). In Erasmus’s Adagia from 1500, the expression is recorded as Multa novit vulpes, verum echinus unum magnum. (The fable of The … Read More
Golden mean (philosophy) – Wikipedia
Date: June 21, 2022
Categories: general
The golden mean or golden middle way is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency. It appeared in Greek thought at least as early as the Delphic maxim “nothing in excess” and emphasized in later Aristotelian philosophy. — Read on en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_mean_(philosophy) nothing to excess
Date: June 3, 2022
Categories: quotes
I wrote ‘Sunshine Superman’ knowing she’d hear the lyrics [in LA] and realise I still loved her. I sang: ‘It’ll take time, I know it, but in a while / You’re gonna be mine, I know it / We’ll do it in style’. — Donovan, 2016 Guardian interview
Date: May 3, 2022
Categories: quotes
To do well, you must figure out which arguments you must never try to win.— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes
Date: April 14, 2022
Categories: quotes
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw
Lead user
Date: April 13, 2022
Categories: general
Lead user is a term developed by American economist Eric von Hippel (Von Hippel 1986). His definition for lead user is: Lead users face needs that will be general in a marketplace – but face them months or years before the bulk of that marketplace encounters them, and Lead users are positioned to benefit significantly … Read More
After great pain, a formal feeling comes – (372)
Date: April 6, 2022
Categories: poems
Emily Dickinson After great pain, a formal feeling comes –The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs –The stiff Heart questions ‘was it He, that bore,’And ‘Yesterday, or Centuries before’? The Feet, mechanical, go round –A Wooden wayOf Ground, or Air, or Ought –Regardless grown,A Quartz contentment, like a stone – This is the Hour of Lead … Read More
The More Loving One
Date: April 6, 2022
Categories: poems
W.H. Auden Looking up at the stars, I know quite wellThat, for all they care, I can go to hell,But on earth indifference is the leastWe have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burnWith a passion for us we could not return?If equal affection cannot be,Let the … Read More
Code of omertà
Date: April 5, 2022
Categories: words
Omertà (/oʊˈmɛərtə/, Italian pronunciation: [omerˈta])[a] is a Southern Italian code of silence and code of honor and conduct that places importance on silence in the face of questioning by authorities or outsiders; non-cooperation with authorities, the government, or outsiders, especially during criminal investigations; and willfully ignoring and generally avoiding interference with the illegal activities of others (i.e., not contacting law enforcement or the authorities when one … Read More