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Alex Jones

I lead teams at the intersection of strategy and design. Autodidact. Polymath. Barbecue acolyte. I start fires (the good kind).

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Highlight from ‘Hopefulness Is the Warrior Emotion That Keeps the Devil Down in the Hole.’ by Brilliantcrank

Hopefulness is not a neutral position. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. Each redemptive or loving act, as small as you like, such as reading to your little boy, or showing him a thing you love, or singing him a song, or putting on his shoes keeps the devil down in the hole. — Nick Cave

Brilliantcrank in Hopefulness Is the Warrior Emotion That Keeps the Devil Down in the Hole.

Highlight from ”Unhumans’: J.D. Vance and the Language of Genocide’ by thenerdreich.com

*“One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky…and he said ‘look,’ he said, ‘you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'” –* Marie Howe

thenerdreich.com in ‘Unhumans’: J.D. Vance and the Language of Genocide

Highlight from ‘Project Hail Mary’ by Andy Weir

Cool thing about pendulums: The time it takes for one to swing forward and backward—the period—won’t change, no matter how wide it swings. If it’s got a lot of energy, it’ll swing farther and faster, but the period will still be the same. This is what mechanical clocks take advantage of to keep time. That period ends up being driven by two things, and two things only: the length of the pendulum and gravity.

Andy Weir in Project Hail Mary