The Stoic Emperor

@TheStoicEmperor

Modern meditations. Wisdom for the world of today. These are new thoughts, not quotes.

The Inner Citadel
Vrijeme pridruživanja: travanj 2017.

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  3. 8. lip 2018.

    Anthony Bourdain turned what could have been formula TV into an exploration of culture, craft, and conflict. He wrote like a fusion of Hunter Thompson and Graham Greene. He had an international mind and a singularly American voice. Here's to the chef with the soul of a poet.

  4. 8. svi 2018.

    Looking through the Overton Window in 2018.

  5. 6. svi 2018.
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    You'd be interested in E.O. Wilson's thoughts on this. He agrees about the necessity of fire:

  6. 5. svi 2018.

    Much of the ethic that animates the best technologies of today was born in the '60s among the idiosyncratic membership of the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club. Their story is proof of the strange magic that can occur when a certain kind of brain encounters a certain kind of machine.

  7. The evolution of has been just as powerfully influential as the evolution of Kanye. 62 million subscribers. Looks at this image. Important information about the future. The dots are connecting.

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  8. The great Ray Bradbury on reading, writing, and mythology.

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    I use Evernote, but only because I've been using it for a long time. I'm sure there are plenty of good alternatives.

  10. 4. tra 2018.

    Essential insights from Isaac Asimov on the future of learning. From a 1988 discussion with Bill Moyers.

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    Kenneth Clark would thoroughly approve.

  12. Steve Jobs had a very good understanding of 's crucial concept of "skin in the game."

  13. An image from the classic Star Trek: TNG episode where Data heads to the holodeck to play poker with Einstein, Newton, and Stephen Hawking. Hawking was a fan of the show and played himself. He saw the warp engine while touring the engineering set and said "I'm working on that."

  14. Consumer technology for the last 40 years: Phase 1: Only the super rich can afford it. Conspicuous consumption! Phase 2: Only the upper middle class can afford it. So privileged! Phase 3: Only rich countries can afford it. Unfair! Phase 4: Most people on earth can afford it.

  15. "Glory follows virtue like a shadow." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

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    "I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything." -Richard Feynman

  17. "The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge and there is no place for it in the endeavor of science." - Carl Sagan

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    "Society is a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are yet to be born." - Edmund Burke

  19. “I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.” - Richard Feynman

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    Ah, then surely Monet deserves a place in the pantheon of great feminist artists?

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