John Wooden wrote, “ Make each day your masterpiece.” This is great advice to live by. Since you can only have one “master” piece - this also means make each day better than the last.
Sunday, October 25, 2026
Things he's learned.......................
Sixty years ago........................................
On the TV............Mission Impossible debuts
Coyote's Law...........................
Don't give the government a power that you would not like your worst political enemy to wield
-Warren Meyer, from this post
The wildest bet...............
You wouldn’t have bet on it,
the battered rock
orbiting a star
from the discount bin
of the universe,
wouldn’t have guessed
that it would bloom
mitochondria and music,
that it would mushroom
mountains and minds,
-Maria Popova, from the opening of her poem The Wildest Bet is the Winning Bet (found in its entirety here)
Enoughness....................
Enoughness is a completely internal state. It stems from your past and the stories you tell yourself about who you are.
-Jordan Grumet, from this substack on the Treadmills of the Unfulfilled
That is some theme.......................
A key theme of my work in the technology critic space is that a life without serious, sustained, intentional thought is impoverished. Thinking is how we make sense of ourselves and the world, and is how we imagine new horizons and create the key elements of our future. It’s at the heart of philosophy, theology, and human empathy; the ability that separates our species from all other animals.
-Cal Newport, from this post
the freedom of getting it wrong.................
In both cases, language was being treated as a mere technology for completing a task or satisfying a tester, not as a route to self-expression or understanding. Once literacy is reduced to the correct ordering of words to produce sentences, it becomes unclear why one would care whether the order is one’s own. It is also unclear why one would choose to study human languages and literature, if they are taught and learned no differently from math or computer science, as a matter of right and wrong answers.
-William Davies, from this essay on reading and writing and language
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