Rosie

“For the first time in economic history, we face an inversion with no obvious landing place. We are the generation that will live through the discontinuity. The last humans to remember when human thought had economic value. The first to discover what comes after.”
― Emad Mostaque, The Last Economy: A Guide to the Age of Intelligent Economics

“Your economic position is determined less by your talent and more by your network position.”
― Emad Mostaque, The Last Economy: A Guide to the Age of Intelligent Economics

“The first smile of the day was important. It determined how the dozens of others that day would turn out.”
― Yeon Somin, The Healing Season of Pottery

“Don't you think that's a disease of the contemporary age? It feels like these days our value is determined by how much effort we make from day to day. That matters even more than our results. After a while, the concept of effort starts to become mixed up with things feeling difficult, and then you reach the point where the person seen as the most admirable is the one suffering the most. I think that's the reason people are so vicious towards Manako Kajii. She refuses to live that life, refuses to suffer.”
― Asako Yuzuki, Butter