One of these shapes allows for error correction, which keeps it on the track, while the other doesn’t. It's an nice visual demonstration of the difference that error correction can make: institutions that don't allow for error correction similarly derail.

'You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.' Harold Bloom

Fox in Winter by N.C. Wyeth

Garden of Earthly Delights

Physical travel is great and may be deeply rewarding. But the real travel happens within your imaginative spaces, awoken by a great poem, a memorable novel, a beautifully written essay.

If you press the right buttons on your computer: - you can make a million dollars - you can find your wife - you can get famous But you can’t learn how to play tennis.

wake up.

A good opportunity is seldom presented and is easily lost." Occasio aegre offertur, facile amittitur -Publilius Syrus, Moral Maxims

spontaneous creative cursing. you dont see that too much anymore. now people just hurl slurs.

premise

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. — Alfred North Whitehead

And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur #artbots #carrington

Young seminarians playing in the snow. Senigallia, Italy, 1961–63 | Mario Giacomelli

periodic reminder that no matter how famous or busy a person is, if they love their work, they always like hearing specific details about how their work has impacted your life

C.S. Lewis explains how to create original art

“Act and God will act, work and He will work.” — St. Joan of Arc

My 80 year old uncle lost 50 lbs this year. He’s been hitting the gym every other day, and has picked up ballroom dancing 3 nights a week. It’s never over until it’s over.

scattered and gathered up again

behold, we are finally building the “really good thing” technology from the beloved neal stephenson novel, “hey, would someone please build this really good thing?”

I discovered that there's an organization called Universal Life Church that formally teaches no theology and has no dogma at all. Anyone can become ordained simply by filling out a form on a website In 2006 they had a schism