when nerds become restless at work about getting promoted to higher levels of management, they double down on their nerd skills to increase their output.
notes
shorts, fragments, travel notes, books, music, stray observations.
i kept them with me babe, i put them with my own, can't make it all alone, i've built my dreams around you
after watching this mesmerizing speech and reading the YouTube comments, I have the sensation that I have missed something important.
how could he lead so many victorious campaigns and cover such vast territories if the subreddit r/CampingGear had not come to existence yet?
there's something endearing about spending a couple thousand dollars on a brand new full-frame camera to then process the heck out of the photos to make them look as if they were taken with a $15 disposable film toy
in every man's life, however splendid or modest, there are episodes that mark one's journey as a reader or as a person. Reading Samuel Johnson's essays is both a personal and a reader milestone.
for what would so soon destroy all the order of society, and deform life with violence and ravage, as a permission to every one to judge his own cause...
the ambition of petty accomplishments, in which we believe we’re advancing, but a wiser perspective offers the opposite diagnosis.