Tom Morton

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Polina Marinova Pompliano, Hidden Genius: The secret ways of thinking that power the world's most successful people

“The technologies we use to try to “get on top of everything” always fail us, in the end, because they increase the size of the “everything” of which we’re trying to get on top.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest . . . the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt.”
― Adam M. Grant, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

“If I woke in the night and heard footsteps in the hall, I would not immediately assume it was an ostrich. Why would I? Ostriches are things that happen to other people, far away, in countries more Serengeti-adjacent. If you want to tell me your saga of your encounter with an ostrich, I will listen appreciatively, but it’s just not something I worry about happening to me.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Feasts at Night