Danu

“Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken, analysing the returning echoes of our memory in order to chart the terrain, in order to make sense of the world around us?”
― Twan Eng Tan, The Garden of Evening Mists

“If the existence of bullshit jobs seems to defy the logic of capitalism, one possible reason for their proliferation might be that the existing system isn't capitalism...In many ways, it resembles classic medieval feudalism, displaying the same tendency to create endless hierarchies of lords, vassals, and retainers.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

“Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continent.”
― Italo Calvino

“People don't become leaders because they never fail. They become leaders because of the way they respond to failure.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach