Dark Matter
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There’s a weightlessness that permeates everything because no damning choices have been made, no paths committed to, and the road forking out ahead is pure, unlimited potential.
“Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe—a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most. Interacting with thousands or even millions of other people on a daily basis was way too much for our ape-descended melons to handle. That was why social media had been gradually driving the entire population of the world insane since it emerged back around the turn of the century.”
― Ready Player Two
― Ready Player Two
“Graham urges you to invest only if you would be comfortable owning a stock even if you had no way of knowing its daily share price.3”
― The Intelligent Investor
― The Intelligent Investor
“Unlike lying, an imagined reality is something that everyone believes in,”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“It is the lonely hour of the night, one with which he is all too familiar—when the city sleeps but you don’t, and all the regrets of your life rage in your mind with an unbearable intensity.”
― Recursion
― Recursion
“The fact is that a jumbo brain is a jumbo drain on the body. It’s not easy to carry around, especially when encased inside a massive skull. It’s even harder to fuel. In Homo sapiens, the brain accounts for about 2–3 per cent of total body weight, but it consumes 25 per cent of the body’s energy when the body is at rest.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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