Overheard
From conversations, books, articles, and podcasts
Love your artists and soldiers equally. Maintaining balance so that neither phase overwhelms the other requires something that sounds soft and fuzzy but is very real and often overlooked. Artists working on loonshots and soldiers working on franchises have to feel equally loved.
Safi Bahcall - loonshots
On the first mountain, we are ambitious, we want to win. On the second mountain, we are relational, we want to contribute.
David Brooks - the second mountain
Hold
Tom Batchelder - chat
Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.
Jelaluddin Rumi
Africa's economy is just one big chain of "nakutumia saa hii, saa hii"
Ty Ngachira - X
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant - lessons of history
We've got to live in the real world. If we don't like the world we're living in, change it. And if we can't change it, we change ourselves.
Nikki Giovanni
The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
John C. Maxwell
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius - meditations
The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.
Dave Chappelle
The sun does not forget a village just because it is small.
African Proverb
I expand my mind from the earth, to the solar system, to the galaxy, to the clusters of galaxies, to the universe, to the multiverses; just go way way way way high; and then bring it back all the way in and go into the molecule, and the atom, and the proton, and the nucleus.
Brad Jacobs - qxo
Tell the truth about your joy.
Aja Monet
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
Marcus Aurelius - meditations