Nathan Koerschner

“The process of planning is very valuable, for forcing you to think hard about what you are doing, but the actual plan that results from it is probably useless.”
― Venkatesh G. Rao, Tempo: Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative-Driven Decision-Making

“What critics miss, however, is that there is no such thing as non-narrative thought, free of possible worlds and ongoing enactments. There are always multiple narratives at work, framing our perceptions, memories, active thoughts, decisions and actions.”
― Venkatesh G. Rao, Tempo: Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative-Driven Decision-Making

“As writers like to remark, books are never finished, they are merely abandoned. This acceptance of necessary expediency leads to the increasing doubt and anxiety characteristic of the last hours before the first significant encounter with reality: the separation event.”
― Venkatesh G. Rao, Tempo: Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative-Driven Decision-Making

“Your most stable beliefs, the ones that actually modulate your behavior, aren’t about life purposes; they are about momentum management. You are more likely to switch religions than to switch from an impatient to a patient temperament.”
― Venkatesh G. Rao, Tempo: Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative-Driven Decision-Making