All Models Are Wrong, Some Are Useful Even the best models of the world are imperfect. This insight is important to remember if we want to learn how to make decisions. James Clear
Emma Thompson Is Right: The Word ‘Content’ Is Rude The term may be popular in an age of blurring lines between platforms, but the Hollywood strikes have shown how the phrase can devalue creat nytimes.com
“I’ve always believed that gender is like language — it’s as infinitely broad and enormous as language is. There’s an infinite amount of things you can do with language, to make new things and mold it to your own wishes.”
to speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen.
We were always on edge, dogged by danger and the anxiety that if we had something even for a moment, it could be taken away.
The very fact that you have looked at the problem straight in the eye means that you are on your way up and out of it.
Why Japan's Rail Workers Can't Stop Pointing at Things A seemingly silly gesture is done for the sake of safety. Atlas Obscura
He was known as a man who would listen thoughtfully to all sides, whose Pyrrhonian principle was to lend his ears to everyone and his mind to no one, while maintaining his own integrity through it all.
“It’s been interesting that for some people, when a thing they want to have happen doesn’t happen, that they take it personally.”