“What you imagine as overwhelming or terrifying while at leisure becomes something you can cope with when you must-there is no time for fear.”
― A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
― A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
“no statistical prediction can or will ever be 100 percent accurate -- because human beings are not and never will be statistics.”
― Artificial Unintelligence
― Artificial Unintelligence
“Don't take your intuitions and ideas to be 'natural': they are often the products of the ideas of audacious thinkers who came before us.”
― L'ordine del tempo
― L'ordine del tempo
“For one whose thought is tranquil, mastery extends from the most minute particle to the vast expanse. -Patanjali”
― Yoga: Discipline of Freedom: The Yoga Sutra Attributed to Patanjali
― Yoga: Discipline of Freedom: The Yoga Sutra Attributed to Patanjali
“We would much rather blame nature for what we don’t like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like.”
― Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
― Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
Jen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Jen
Lists liked by Jen



































