Tomas Pena

“effort to create “technology parks” and “high-tech centers of excellence.” Such architect-designed places often feel so artificial and sterile that they end up as vacant white elephants. According to Paul Graham, a successful American programmer and technology investor, “A government that asks ‘How can we build a Silicon Valley?’ has probably ensured failure by the way they framed the question. You don’t build a Silicon Valley; you let one grow.”28 The reason for this is that the type of people who are attracted to high-tech centers are looking for a particular environment that combines a sense of freedom, authenticity, social interaction and character. If you want to attract geeks, said Graham: “[Y]ou need more than a town with personality. You need a town with the right personality.”
― Mark Roeder, Unnatural Selection: Why the Geeks Will Inherit the Earth

“Eric Richards, a professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis, has analyzed current and past research in epigenetics and the history of evolution, and wrote that epigenetics should be considered a form of soft inheritance, citing”
― Mark Roeder, Unnatural Selection: Why the Geeks Will Inherit the Earth

“Here’s the thing: normal fat tissue contains immune cells that are a critical part of the response against disease. About 5 percent of all cells in your fat are immune cells called macrophages. They help maintain an adequate blood supply to your fat, and they are also tasked to remove dead fat cells. If your fat expands to an unhealthy size, however, too many macrophages accumulate, and this triggers inflammation.29”
― William W. Li, Eat to Beat Your Diet: Burn Fat, Heal Your Metabolism, and Live Longer

“scout mindset: the motivation to see things as they are, not as you wish they were.”
― Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset: The Perils of Defensive Thinking and How to Be Right More Often