Ernst Jünger and Louis-Ferdinand Céline met in Paris in 1941, a record of their meeting is found in Jünger's journal. His judgment of Céline is that of a violent and nihilistic maniac ‘marching toward some unknown goal’ like a ‘machine of iron’ propelled forward by mass murder.

All I ask is for a purpose and great power to befall on me.

"Hail to your Lordship!"

This is the principle of “hard schooling.” For Napoleon, the Brienne and the Paris Military Academy, for Caesar, Marcus Antonius Gnipho and Rhodes, for Hitler...

If I had to distill a singular "supreme principle" to abide to in all areas of life it would be "What is bad? All that springs from weakness".

The introduction of the theory of logarithms accelerated the computational power of mathematicians in the 17th century at a comparable rate to the introduction of computers in the 20th century.

Four books I read and liked this year.

Important!!¡

Lombards invented repos and security-backed loans to get around "muh usury" Catholic laws, North Italian excellence.

I'm watching a nature documentary on natural parks voiced over by Obama.

The "neocolonialist" archetype in the 21st century is a PE guy who specializes in a few "emerging markets" in Africa.

I love numerical methods and partial differential equations and I would never ever ever kill myself.

This degree is going to be the end of me.