Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.

I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist