Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Elon, have a lot of respect for you, but bad time to troll. Please stop. Our SPCX shares (from our $500m investment in your Twitter takeover) are worth more than a billion.

The Eric administration is over. Sorry, you are victims of a circumstance. Thank you.

I start digging and I start digging and by most people’s calculation they say about six feet’s enough. But I kept thinking and maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t, I was digging to hide the body maybe, I was digging my own shame trying to hide it, don’t have to ever face it again.

There are three reasons that you might want to get closer to [the] truth. First, perhaps this is an intrinsic good. Number two, understanding, because you can have knowledge without understanding. Understanding feels good. But society care more about the utility, about the impact. And then number one, the moral good of truth seeking is sidelined by two and three. The moral argument for truth is messy.

f-cking sh-t

None of this was fame or charisma. All of it was structure, and structure is learnable.

Rick: You know, I love standing like this? I pretend I’m an eagle or an owl. Any kind of bird. Do you consider an owl a bird?

In such a rich country, inequality notwithstanding, forgoing work incurs much less risk and hence becomes more tolerable. A further, informal safety net has expanded outside of government: Women have flooded into the workforce over the past 75 years, many of whom are now bringing home paychecks to these men. This is not to say that unemployment is congenial. Quite the opposite: It still leads to worse physical and mental health. But it is not as harsh as it once was.

You are an escape. You’re a break from our normal lives. You’re a parenthesis.