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“Stoicism is not a matter of gritting your teeth. It’s about seeing things differently so that you do not need to grit your teeth.” Richard Sorabji

No one is wrong all the time. No one is right all the time. Never grow into a disposition where you believe everything you think.

“Hold every hour in your grasp. Lay hold of today's task, and you will not need to depend so much upon tomorrow's. While we are postponing, life speeds by.” Seneca

Polarization and conflict produce online engagement. Engagement is the object of desire for corporations, politicians, ruthless self-promoters. Our emotions are held captive by contrived controversies and phantom threats. Master your emotions, or they will serve other masters.

“Let philosophy scrape off your own faults, rather than be a way to rail against the faults of others." Seneca

It is with a heavy heart that the Poliquin family from Ottawa announces the sudden passing of their brother Charles, a strength trainer much esteemed in his community. He was 57 years old. He leaves behind his... https://www.facebook.com/strengthsensei/posts/2174369819444395 …

*Life after 30* Me, waking up: I feel good today Knee: Dibs! Neck: Aw man Back: Dang it Knee: Haha *explodes* Me: FUCK

The ultimate status symbol is time.

Bourdain's work hinted at a universally relevant notion: that travel — if one can view it as more than a consumer act — has a way of revealing a world more complicated and exasperating and unexpectedly delightful than one could ever imagine sitting at home watching TV. (4/4)

Interviews worth listening to are always between people who are interested in each other. This must be a two-way street, otherwise it is a performance, not a conversation. Real value emerges when the participants forget the audience and try to impress each other with secrets.

RIP Anthony @Bourdain. May you find your peace.

Mason jars with a handle or wine stem cause me to lose faith in humanity

"The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore. Achievement is the price which the wanderer pays for the right to venture." --Rosita Forbes (1925)

5b) The French solved the problem with knowledge exams for educators ("aggregation"); you never end up having people judged solely by peers (See #SkininTheGame ). (Same problems: "know economics" is interpreted as knowing theories by economists, not economic facts).