Latitude of Internal Audition Dramas: Paul Romer visits Burning Man

“The only way that we can live is if we grow. The only way we can grow is if we change. The only way we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we are exposed is if we throw ourselves into the open.”

 — C. Joybell

“Life is more exciting when things are uncertain. Uncertainty teaches resilience, and resilience gives me the awareness I need to become my best self.”


Can you crack codes like a secret agent?
ABC NEWS The Australian Royal Mint is releasing coins with an encrypted message — and they want you to crack the code.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

~ Terry Pratchett

How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.…

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Laurence J. Peter: “Look around you where you work, and pick out the people who have reached their level of incompetence. You will see that in every hierarchy the cream rises until it sours.”

“…we find that question askers significantly overestimate the interpersonal costs of asking sensitive questions.”

Paul Romer visits Burning Man (NYT feature article)

The culture that is Finland

Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman

Te inequality of life expectancy is exploding in the US

Even within the richest 20%, the 1% now lives much longer than the next 9%, who live longer than the next 10%https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/09/09/poor-middle-class-americans-are-much-less-likely-survive-into-their-seventies-than-wealthy-federal-report-says/#click=https://t.co/EafVii0BP6 …