Play the game for more than you can afford to lose … only then will you learn the game.
Winston Churchill (via)
quotes
Quote of the Day
There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.
The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein (via)
What “free” means on the web
If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.
“blue_beetle” on Metafilter
Auden: Murder is unique
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W.H. Auden, “The Guilty Vicarage” (via)
Quote of the Day
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
The Price of Procrastination
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”
— William James
The Burry Principle
“Once you become an idea’s defender, you have a harder time changing your mind about it.”
— Michael Lewis, The Big Short, paraphrasing investor Michael Burry (slightly paraphrased again by me)
Throwaway novels
“The bestseller in fiction took a precipitous turn in the 1980s towards what might be termed the ‘throwaway read,’ a novel with a shelf life of yogurt.”
— Nina Siegal (via)