October 2011
4 posts
“Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live...”
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i know with certainty that technology will not save us.
“Although I didn’t anticipate it, being out of the kitchen while still in such...”
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“Satisficers […] are those who make a decision or take action once their...”
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““Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve...”
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September 2011
3 posts
“‘And what is it,’ I said softly, more to myself than to John,...”
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“I keep coming back to his hand and her hand nestled in each other with such...”
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July 2011
1 post
medicine
I have learned that health does not equal medicine does not equal health.
See: discussions of pharmacist interventions at work, MD stories in Ina May’s guide, Gawande, dietician’s chronicles in the nursing home, etc., etc., etc.
June 2011
2 posts
“Long life depends on keeping active, staying interested, and eating a diet high...”
– Roger Ebert
“Men do better when they are working for women than men.” [Para:] Women do...”
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May 2011
16 posts
“And you can tell if it’s your own plan by how lost you feel. People who do their...”
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“In the last analysis the world cares very little what you or I know, but it does...”
– The Booker T. Washington Papers, 1903-4, p 235
“If you’re enthusiastic about the things you’re working on, people will come ask...”
– James Woolsey, former CIA director
“I think a lot about the place of desire. An incorrect relationship to desire, I...”
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“Spent an embarrassingly large chunk of my week searching Jaipur for the...”
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“What this means is that when they have an idea, and they start to reason about...”
– via Jonah Lehrer on confirmation bias and depression
“Think twice about accepting an outrageous commute in order to make outrageous...”
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There are two types of people in the world: askers... →
“One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are...”
– Bertrand Russell, via Kate on the juxtaposition of the imposter syndrome and the Dunning-Kruger effect
“The more you learn about the real lives of real people, the less able you are to...”
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“Complain about the way other people make software by making software.”
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