How important this is to you…
… does not necessarily reflect how important it is (or should be) to the world at large. See also: Eyes. Sawdust. Planks.
Vision
Hannah Arendt on the abolition of distance, abstraction and alienation
He found the Archimedean point, but he used it against himself; it seems that he was permitted to find it only under this condition. Franz… Read More »Hannah Arendt on the abolition of distance, abstraction and alienation
Hannah Arendt on action, story, history and invisible hands
The basic error of all materialism in politics — and this materialism is not Marxian and not even modern in origin, but as old as… Read More »Hannah Arendt on action, story, history and invisible hands
Sampling bias; or, small n
Sampling bias is the error caused by assuming that a sample is representative of the whole population when it is not. It is the error… Read More »Sampling bias; or, small n
Hannah Arendt on speech and action, equality and distinction
Human plurality, the basic condition of both action and speech, has the twofold character of equality and distinction. If men were not equal, they could… Read More »Hannah Arendt on speech and action, equality and distinction
Vital Signs
Pointers Menurut saya, dari filsafat, adanya Tuhan bukan sesuatu yang bisa dibuktikan. Tapi ada petunjuk-petunjuk yang bisa menunjuk bahwa Tuhan itu ada, dan kita diciptakan.… Read More »Vital Signs
Discounting the future less
A bird in the hand In the absence of a conveniently pithy definition from elsewhere on the internet, to discount the future means to place… Read More »Discounting the future less
Thinking in Bets, 425BC Edition (Herodotus on planning and risk)
“The best benefit of good planning is this: if one is thwarted by some setback, nevertheless one has the sense that the plans were well… Read More »Thinking in Bets, 425BC Edition (Herodotus on planning and risk)
Splendour and Horror: Agnes Callard on shopping, Zola, and the birth of consumerism
I hope this snippet makes you go and read the whole thing. In his Theory of the Leisure Class … Thorstein Veblen explains that “conspicuous… Read More »Splendour and Horror: Agnes Callard on shopping, Zola, and the birth of consumerism
Niels Bohr [via Werner Heisenberg] on breaking with Newton and the poetry of atoms
Heisenberg prefaces Physics and Beyond with the note that “needless to say, conversations cannot be reconstructed literally after several decades….” [Niels Bohr, as recalled Heisenberg]:… Read More »Niels Bohr [via Werner Heisenberg] on breaking with Newton and the poetry of atoms