Fifty years ago......................

Bachman-Turner Overdrive..........Not Fragile album

 

Fifty years ago..........................

Renaissance.......................Turn of the Cards album

 

quick vs. fast.......................

 

But self-help quick fixes are bogus because they’re shallow. Not because change can’t happen fast. If you’re willing and able to get deep and honest about why you do the counterproductive, happiness-limiting things you do, there’s no automatic reason why it might not be possible to walk away from them today.

-Oliver Burkeman, from here

Fifty years ago.......................

Bob Dylan/The Band...........Before the Flood album

 

On time......................

 You don't need more time because you already have all the time that you will ever get; you need more focus.

-Kevin Kelly

Fifty years ago..........................

Fleetwood Mac...............Heroes Are Hard to Find album

 

Granny's Rule.......................

 Granny’s Rule, to be specific, is the requirement that children eat their carrots before they get dessert. And the business version requires that executives force themselves daily to first do their unpleasant and necessary tasks before rewarding themselves by proceeding to their pleasant tasks. 

-Charlie Munger

Fifty years ago.................................

Billy Joel...............Streetlife Serenader full album

 

insulation....................

In ever more areas of life, algorithms are coming to substitute for judgment exercised by identifiable human beings who can be held to account. The rationale offered is that automated decision-making will be more reliable. But a further attraction is that it serves to insulate various forms of power from popular pressures.

-Matthew B. Crawford, from this essay

Fifty years ago..........................

John Coltrane............................Interstellar Space

 

our finest moments................

 

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

-M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled

Fifty years ago.............................

Joni Mitchell.................................Court and Spark

 

A good question...............

 In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will be proved to be wrong, maybe even embarrassingly wrong.  A good question to ask yourself today is, "What might I be wrong about?"  This is the only worry worth having.

-Kevin Kelly

Fifty years ago......................

Neil Young........................On the Beach

 

worry....................................

 You don't need to worry about progressing slowly. You need to worry about climbing the wrong mountain.

-James Clear, from here

Fifty years ago..........................

Steely Dan....................Pretzel Logic full album

 

an interesting collection..................

  I sought good judgment mostly by collecting instances of bad judgment, then pondering ways to avoid such outcomes. 

-Charlie Munger

Fifty years ago...........................

Rush..................................................Rush album

 

borrowing........................

We borrow our atoms.
The universe owns them.

The universe borrows our love and wonder.
Those belong to us.

-Jarod K. Anderson

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Fifty years ago......................

Supertramp....................Crime of the Century album