My Fellow Citizens, I haven’t read Ryan Holiday’s recent book, but I’ve started to suspect that this is the right time for it. The title is “Stillness is the Key.” Ryan Holiday is the reason why I keep Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations within reach at my desk.
We think KNOWING is so easy that we approach the unknowable with suspicion. Longitude by Dava Sobel and William J.H. Andrews is a worthwhile read if only to challenge the certainty of our suppositions. Modern precision is grounded in countless struggles with imprecision. [http://www.1worldglobes.com/alumglobes2picture.htm]
Now showing: “every utterance, every court filing, every public transaction, every burp, every miscue.” In an interesting read, Jack Shafer wonders about the state of our politics “ now that we have dirt on everyone [http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/].” While some debate the power of the Internet [http://www.readability.