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Byung-Chul Han
“What proves problematic is not individual competition per se, but rather its self-referentiality, which escalates into absolute competition. That is, the achievement-subject competes with itself; it succumbs to the destructive compulsion to outdo itself over and over, to jump over its own shadow. This self-constraint, which poses as freedom, has deadly results.”
Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society

Seth Godin
“Most criticism shared in the internet age is useless, or worse, harmful. It’s useless because it often personalizes the criticism to be about the creator, not the work. And it’s useless because most critics are unskilled and ungenerous.”
Seth Godin, The Practice: Shipping Creative Work

William Ferraiolo
“The length of your life is not nearly as important as the quality of the person living it.”
William Ferraiolo, Meditations on Self-Discipline and Failure: Stoic Exercise for Mental Fitness

Jules Evans
“The angry person is acutely sensitive to all they are owed by the world, and blind to all they have received”
Jules Evans, Philosophy for Life: And Other Dangerous Situations
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Mary Beard
“Among all the things we fancy we have inherited from ancient Rome, from drains to place names, or the offices of the Catholic Church, the calendar is probably the most important and the most often overlooked.”
Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

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