Hmmmm..................................

• A paradox: Boosting efficiency often reduces effectiveness.

-Nicholas Bate, from his wonderful new series

Well...................................

....................................................it would be a good start anyway.   The WaPo clearly picked this up.  Don't know what they said, because it is behind their paywall, one I won't be penetrating.  Let me know what I missed.

Here is where I confess..................

.................to never having read anything written by David Foster Wallace, until now.  Pointed in his direction by this blog post, I read his July, 1996 Esquire magazine essay, The String Theory.  Faithful readers may remember that my love of reading was kindled by Philadelphia sports writers in the 1960s.   DFW puts those guys to shame.  When one gets a kick out of reading the author's footnotes, one suspects the author is among the best.

"You are invited to try to imagine what it would be like to be among the hundred best in the world at something. At anything. I have tried to imagine; it's hard."

On creating problems.................

"It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.” 

-Malcolm Forbes

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On problems...............................

 "It turns out that wishful thinking does not solve problems, but creates them."

-Tim Harford, as culled from here

True............................

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I know how the story ended............

..................but I still got anxious watching the countdown:




July 16, 1969.  Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins head toward the moon.

Ten declarations...........................

4.    I declare that it is true that life turns out best for the one who makes the best of the way life turns out. The key is improvisation in the face of the unexpected, which is always to be expected. A better name for that is surprise.

-Robert Fulghum, other nine are here


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Twofer............................

Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington/Don't Get Around Much Anymore




Willie Nelson............................Don't Get Around Much Anymore