by Think In The Morning | Feb 23, 2025 | More |
David Foster Wallace started his 2005 commence speech to the graduating class at Kenyon with this short story:There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys. How’s...
by Think In The Morning | Feb 6, 2025 | More |
“There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: impatience and laziness. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of laziness we cannot return. Perhaps, however, there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were...
by Think In The Morning | Feb 1, 2025 | More |
In How Much Land Does A Man Need Leo Tolstoy offers a lesson in the downside of greed and overreach. I’ll summarize the key point of the story for those who haven’t read it. (Note: spoiler alert.)The story follows a Russian peasant named Pahom. He buys some land then...
by Think In The Morning | Jan 26, 2025 | More |
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. Niels Bohr, Nobel prize-winning physicistWe must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see. Charles Peguy, poet, essayist and editor Just over a...
by Think In The Morning | Jan 22, 2025 | More |
Free Rider: a person or company that gets an advantage without paying for it or earning it. Today’s American left finds itself in a bit of a funk. The new President has jumped out of the starter blocks at lightening speed. His strategy is to declare the election a...
by Think In The Morning | Jan 16, 2025 | More |
Jack of all trades master of none, though oftentimes better than master of one. The Hedgehog and the Fox is arguably Isaiah Berlin’s most famous book, a short book of just 80 pages although in the most recent updated edition it extends to 122 pages with a...
