Words to Start the Week (Feb. 25, 2025)
Nuggets from past notes
”Technology advances could have made human life carefree and happy if the development of the organizing power of man had been able to keep step with his technological advances. The hardly bought achievements of the machine age in the hands of our generation are as dangerous as a razor in the hand of a three-year old child”
- Albert Einstein
“Remember that food would not have a taste if it weren’t for hunger; results are meaningless without effort, joy without sadness, convictions without uncertainty, and an ethical life isn’t so when stripped of personal risk”
“Our educational system is hung up on precision. The art of being good at approximations is insufficiently valued. This impedes conceptual thinking.
“Even well-meaning gatekeepers slow innovation. When a platform is self-service, even the improbable ideas can get tried, because there’s no expert gatekeeper ready to say “that will never work!”. And guess what - many of those improbable ideas do work, and society is the beneficiary of that diversity”
“Consumption is the sole end and purpose of production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer”