tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19817003014621639762024-03-19T04:47:44.199-04:00A Layman's BlogA view of life and commercial real estate from Newark and Licking County, OhioSteve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.comBlogger21706125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-82721985665429699032024-03-19T00:30:00.002-04:002024-03-19T00:30:00.131-04:00Fifty years ago......................<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Todd Rundgren.....................Utopia (the album)</span><div><br /></div><div>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/QYWR-jF7Mek?si=UQPnNnCtcpUSZ0Uw" width="480"></iframe></div>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-15899748968829254802024-03-19T00:25:00.005-04:002024-03-19T00:25:00.192-04:00Sort of interesting...................<p> </p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtVV3u5uSIcLfmRAVmQC9c3DJMDUjUrTh0H4svD3gri9bI_FW9-tedLwAzdkmuzAjO0IEBebM0bsm08WQnxKywmP08-PMjdX91jlrHHp9WzRGAiMbVQdmtD83mpwGAdHDx7dSavfkAKpaQ88NMTh6CskriPexXkXZhMCmiWA0uNZTfLZ4w9j0AAYg3dck/s2016/books%20hidden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="544" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtVV3u5uSIcLfmRAVmQC9c3DJMDUjUrTh0H4svD3gri9bI_FW9-tedLwAzdkmuzAjO0IEBebM0bsm08WQnxKywmP08-PMjdX91jlrHHp9WzRGAiMbVQdmtD83mpwGAdHDx7dSavfkAKpaQ88NMTh6CskriPexXkXZhMCmiWA0uNZTfLZ4w9j0AAYg3dck/w408-h544/books%20hidden.jpg" width="408" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i><br /></i></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">-a few excerpts:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Their deepest underlying assumption may be that the tradeoff between doing well and being well is a false choice.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The best teams aren't the ones with the best thinkers. They're the teams that unearth and use the best thinking from everyone.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>. . . that collective intelligence depends less on people's cognitive skills than their prosocial skills. The best teams have the most team players—people who excel at collaborating with others.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The people to promote are the ones with the prosocial skills to put the mission above their ego—and team cohesion above personal glory.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and will never achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Weak leaders silence voice and shoot the messenger. Strong leaders welcome voice and thank the messenger. Great leaders build systems to amplify voice and elevate the messenger.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>If you doubt yourself, shouldn't you doubt your low opinion of yourself?</i></span></p>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-41392376461307595142024-03-19T00:20:00.001-04:002024-03-19T00:20:00.131-04:00came naturally...................<p> <span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Religion played a central role in his life and his thinking, as it would in the Revolution. It was no accident that so many Boston town meetings were conducted in houses of prayer, or the republicanism, as envisaged in Massachusetts Bay, traced the independent-minded, egalitarian, community-based lines of Puritanism. <b>Men who preferred a church without a bishop came naturally to the idea of a state without a king</b>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>-</i>Stacy Schiff, <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-revolutionary-stacy-schiff/1141047383?ean=9780316441094"><span style="color: red;">The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams</span></a></span></p>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-21486730122198701962024-03-19T00:15:00.001-04:002024-03-19T00:15:00.134-04:00Reflection..........................<p> <span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The danger in trying to hide who you are is that you'll succeed, and you'll start to see a stranger in the mirror of other people.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>-</i><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/love-notes-from-the-hollow-tree-jarod-anderson/1141716728?ean=9798826128046"><span style="color: red;">Jarod K. Anderson</span></a></span></p>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-31229190450566818922024-03-19T00:10:00.001-04:002024-03-19T00:10:00.126-04:00brainwriting....................<p> <span style="font-size: medium;"><i>To unearth the hidden potential in teams, instead of brainstorming, we're better off shifting to a process called brainwriting. The initial steps are solo. You start by asking everyone to generate ideas separately. Next, you pool them and share them anonymously among the group. To preserve independent judgment, each member evaluates them on their own. Only then does the team come together to select and refine the most promising options. By developing and assessing ideas individually before choosing and elaborating them, teams can surface and advance possibilities that might not get attention otherwise. . . .</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> Collective intelligence begins with individual creativity. But it doesn't end there.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">-Adam Grant, <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hidden-potential-adam-grant/1143501865?ean=9780593653142"><span style="color: red;">Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things</span></a></span></p>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-53590543347053755382024-03-19T00:05:00.013-04:002024-03-19T00:05:00.244-04:00Believe......................<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <i>Some make the world believe that they believe what they do not believe. Others, in greater number, make themselves believe it, being unable to penetrate what it means to believe.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">-</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Michel de Montaigne, from An Apology to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_of_Sabunde" style="background-color: white; color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Raymond Sebond</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, also known as Chapter 12, Book 2 of his </span><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-complete-works-of-michel-de-montaigne-michel-de-montaigne/1141112367?ean=9781400040216" style="background-color: white; color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: red;">Complete Works</span></a></span></p>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-17531699938896708612024-03-18T00:36:00.001-04:002024-03-18T00:36:00.124-04:00ruthless..........................<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBbajoiX-xqYwSSGArCXJaSr5UKDajppT0oUaR-uf_4eJPosnm5LIfCnVla9A5XYsVU2V6VSU5166UKqasS0UuhwkgeL-NsZBBqGpxXAjd7t9nyNlo65XSE9jDfd1AblMWUg9W5JQG1JY9fA1WoADCc-_HuDfqmqw8S70RUI6DPrXqOFkJciJUDsryKN8/s600/hugh%20%20ruthless.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="600" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBbajoiX-xqYwSSGArCXJaSr5UKDajppT0oUaR-uf_4eJPosnm5LIfCnVla9A5XYsVU2V6VSU5166UKqasS0UuhwkgeL-NsZBBqGpxXAjd7t9nyNlo65XSE9jDfd1AblMWUg9W5JQG1JY9fA1WoADCc-_HuDfqmqw8S70RUI6DPrXqOFkJciJUDsryKN8/w373-h197/hugh%20%20ruthless.JPG" width="373" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.gapingvoid.com/a-gruesome-paradox/">-<span style="color: red;">from this</span> <span style="color: red;">Gaping Void post</span></a></span></p>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-78046884723485499442024-03-18T00:35:00.003-04:002024-03-18T00:35:00.138-04:00radical.........................<p><br /></p><p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxlnpjSpg-4yk5bGkLu8kxh_hD0XaoffyLzpsDmfUyX7bO4xKxRjfuqpI_1u9lSO96aj6bNic0Ve1xBQx1k6gfD6X8Mm7U9-sIpOndz7uBqpSntCbPR1lNBvdnDgaWNSvcaXgW7vDKpewDZKdxJbDaB2o2LF4WjFyyEzQa10K7f5IjyVMs0I1pV_qJJjM/s436/art%20%20raft.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="302" data-original-width="436" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxlnpjSpg-4yk5bGkLu8kxh_hD0XaoffyLzpsDmfUyX7bO4xKxRjfuqpI_1u9lSO96aj6bNic0Ve1xBQx1k6gfD6X8Mm7U9-sIpOndz7uBqpSntCbPR1lNBvdnDgaWNSvcaXgW7vDKpewDZKdxJbDaB2o2LF4WjFyyEzQa10K7f5IjyVMs0I1pV_qJJjM/w406-h282/art%20%20raft.JPG" width="406" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; text-align: start;">Théodore Géricault, </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid rgb(34, 35, 34); box-sizing: border-box; color: #757575; text-align: start;">Raft of the Medusa</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; text-align: start;">, 1818–19, oil </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <a href="https://smarthistory.org/theodore-gericault-raft-of-the-medusa/"><span style="color: red;">back story here</span></a></p>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-1222419156210779262024-03-18T00:30:00.001-04:002024-03-18T00:30:00.142-04:00Fifty years ago...............................<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
Mountain..................................<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks_(album)"><span style="color: red;">Twin Peaks</span></a></span><div><br /><div>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/HtcRi_XVpsU?si=8_riV_LSY4crVbUT" width="480"></iframe></div></div>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-53513881540135956152024-03-18T00:27:00.002-04:002024-03-18T00:27:00.123-04:00A discourse on the meek..........................<p> </p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">...................................and <a href="https://austinkleon.com/2024/03/17/the-meek-inherit-the-earth/"><span style="color: red;">their inheritance</span></a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-61426491614439289072024-03-18T00:25:00.001-04:002024-03-18T00:25:00.133-04:00Classic......................<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> ................................<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-quotable-hitchens-windsor-mann/1131303735?ean=9780306819582"><span style="color: red;">Christopher Hitchens</span></a>:</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Tell me which decade you love, or hate, and I'll tell you who and what you are.<br /></i></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>-1990</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>I must say that I've always found the generational emphasis on the way that my youth was covered to be very annoying. There were a lot of other people born in April, 1949, and I just don't feel like I have anything in common with most of them.<br /></i></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>-2001</i></span></div>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-53044579390316268862024-03-18T00:20:00.002-04:002024-03-18T00:20:00.134-04:00Of complexities..............<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <i>Of the complexities introduced by the "present vast and delicate division of labor," he wrote, "When everybody is working for everybody, everybody is injured by the mischances of everybody."</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>-</i>James Grant, <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bagehot-james-grant/1129598851?ean=9780393358285"><span style="color: red;">Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian</span></a></span></p>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-2243736821374339232024-03-18T00:17:00.001-04:002024-03-18T00:17:00.150-04:00seeds.........................<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i> <span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">Whether our cosmic helplessness paralyzes or mobilizes us depends largely on how we orient to freedom and what we make of agency. “The smallest act in the most limited circumstances,” </span><a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/tag/hannah-arendt/" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(225, 155, 155); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #c33737; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hannah Arendt</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;"> wrote in </span><a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/05/17/hannah-arendt-human-condition-speech-action/" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(225, 155, 155); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #c33737; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Human Condition</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626;">, “bears the seed of… boundlessness, because one deed, and sometimes one word, suffices to change every constellation.”</span></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #262626;">-Maria Popova, </span><a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/03/15/we-are-free-to-change-the-world-hannah-arendt/"><span style="color: red;">from here</span></a></span></span></p>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-44564109281195392832024-03-18T00:15:00.004-04:002024-03-18T00:15:00.120-04:00a summary......................<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <i>It is difficult to improve on the summary of the chronicler who delivered up Adam's first years in a single storm cloud of a sentence: "He read theology and abandoned the ministry, read law and abandoned the bar, entered business and lost a thousand pounds."</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>-</i>Stacy Schiff, <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-revolutionary-stacy-schiff/1141047383?ean=9780316441094"><span style="color: red;">The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams</span></a></span></p><p><br /></p>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-87356491140291023612024-03-18T00:10:00.006-04:002024-03-18T00:10:00.149-04:00A love of reading often begins at home....<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i> Although filling our homes with books might be a start, psychologists find that it's not enough. If we want our kids to enjoy reading, we need to make books part of their lives. That involves talking about books during meals and car rides, visiting libraries or bookstores, giving books as gifts, and letting them see us read. <b>Children pay attention to our attention: where we focus tells them what we prize.</b></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-style: italic;">-</b>Adam Grant, <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hidden-potential-adam-grant/1143501865?ean=9780593653142"><span style="color: red;">Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things</span></a></span></p><p><br /></p>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-78179879056156191552024-03-18T00:07:00.004-04:002024-03-18T00:07:00.420-04:00Ownership.........................<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: justify;">It is odd. A large majority of my neighbours now belong to shiny gadgets.</span></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><i style="color: #333333;">-</i><span style="color: #333333;">David Warren, </span><a href="https://www.davidwarrenonline.com/2024/03/15/prisoners-enchained/"><span style="color: red;">from here</span></a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-85322316436438804362024-03-18T00:05:00.003-04:002024-03-18T00:05:00.130-04:00If.............................<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>If we held to God by the mediation of a living faith, if we held to God through him and not through ourselves, if we had a divine foothold and foundation, human accidents would not have the power to shake us as they do.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>-</i>Michel de Montaigne, from An Apology to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_of_Sabunde"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Raymond Sebond</span></a>, also known as Chapter 12, Book 2 of his <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-complete-works-of-michel-de-montaigne-michel-de-montaigne/1141112367?ean=9781400040216"><span style="color: red;">Complete Works</span></a></span></p><p><br /></p>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-22754856447895175422024-03-17T18:23:00.001-04:002024-03-17T18:23:00.123-04:00In the background......................<div><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Graffiti"><span style="color: red;">American Graffiti</span></a>...........................The Soundtrack</span><div><br /></div><div>
<iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/emUd3zP651M?si=jAFAghJf3-WlLH3V" width="480"></iframe></div>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-60216370927767444732024-03-17T16:21:00.003-04:002024-03-17T16:21:28.480-04:00Opening paragraphs.................<p> <span style="font-size: medium;"><i> As someone who never really had one, maybe I am the least qualified person to defend the importance of family. But as someone with more education than I ever expected to receive, maybe I'm more qualified to say we give education more importance than we should. I am grateful for the miraculous trajectory of my life, but I had to experience upward mobility firsthand and reach the summit of education to understand its limitations. I've come to understand that a warm and loving family is worth infinitely more than the money or accomplishments I hoped might compensate for them.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Rob Henderson, from the Preface to his book, <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/troubled-rob-henderson/1143636599?ean=9781982168537"><span style="color: red;">Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class</span></a></span></p><p><br /></p>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-48998808884467874382024-03-17T11:30:00.003-04:002024-03-17T11:30:39.986-04:00taxing the mega-rich...................<p><br /></p><p> <span style="font-size: medium;"><i>...................</i>to stop "<a href="https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/03/god-save-us-from-altruistic-billionaires.php"><span style="color: red;">transformational philanthropy</span></a>"?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: italic;">It doesn’t matter if you agree with Mr. Bankman-Fried about how to make the world better, whether you support his veganism, his global-warming alarmism or his priorities for spending his ill-gotten gains. </span><span style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">History teaches us that the greatest crimes are committed by those who believe they are mankind’s benefactors</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: italic;">.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span></p>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-76342406380982409092024-03-17T11:21:00.006-04:002024-03-17T11:21:59.518-04:00Independent-mindedness...............<p> </p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">....................or, <a href="https://www.paulgraham.com/think.html"><span style="color: red;">how to think for yourself</span></a>:</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>The three components of independent-mindedness work in concert: fastidiousness about truth and resistance to being told what to think leave space in your brain, and curiosity finds new ideas to fill it.</i></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-39140053130247158072024-03-17T11:04:00.000-04:002024-03-17T11:04:12.009-04:00The federal Board of Tea Experts........<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;">....................................</span><a href="https://reason.com/2024/03/17/after-a-century-the-federal-tea-board-is-finally-dead/"><span style="color: red;">who knew</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">?</span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>It's a warning about the stickiness of bad ideas, about an inertia that can limit even the smallest attempts at trimming the state.</i></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://cafehayek.com/2024/03/some-links-2291.html">via</a></span></span></p>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-28259624882559516202024-03-17T10:26:00.005-04:002024-03-17T10:26:42.852-04:00Aging like a fine wine.............<p><br /></p><p> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">...............<a href="https://bakadesuyo.com/2024/01/brain-sharp-as-you-age/"><span style="color: red;">five ways to keep</span></a></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="https://bakadesuyo.com/2024/01/brain-sharp-as-you-age/"><span style="color: red;"> your brain happy.</span></a></span></p><p><br /></p>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-54815675807565948352024-03-17T10:06:00.002-04:002024-03-17T10:06:21.026-04:00If you could..........................<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">...................<a href="https://markmanson.net/40-lessons-at-40"><span style="color: red;">advise your younger self</span></a>.</span> (or your older self for that matter)</p><p><br /></p>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1981700301462163976.post-13866992008767919912024-03-16T09:44:00.000-04:002024-03-16T09:44:57.726-04:00effects.........................<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>I have sought God in the meanings that have inspired people to live in such a way that their lives seem to point to something larger than themselves . . . It can be an affirmation, someone who gives you the confidence to be yourself. It can be forgiveness, a way of saying, yes, you know and I know that it was wrong, but that was yesterday, and you have work to do today, and perhaps tomorrow will bring the chance to heal what you harmed.</i></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: medium;"><i>People with the Abrahamic monotheisms have always known that for most of us, most of the time, God, more infinite that the universe, older and younger than time, cannot be known directly. He is known mainly through his effects, and of these the most important is his effect on human lives.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>-</i>Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-great-partnership-jonathan-sacks/1111508264?ean=9780805212501"><span style="color: red;">The Great Partnership: Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning</span></a></span></p>Steve Laymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08595258281958953869noreply@blogger.com0