Michael

“The information in our experience is latent, like gold in ore—the case we made in Rule II. It must be extracted and refined with great effort, and often in collaboration with other people, before it can be employed to improve the present and the future.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

“Because that was a parent’s job: to provide shoulders. Shoulders for your children to sit on when they’re little so they can see the world, then stand on when they get older so they can reach the clouds, and sometimes lean against whenever they stumble and feel unsure.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“The average estimate implies that when your income increases by 10 percent, your CO2 emissions increase by 9 percent.”
― Abhijit V. Banerjee, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

“solitary golfers struck him as a squirrelly, self-involved breed, like hermits or fly fishermen.”
― Stewart O'Nan, Henry, Himself