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"Humanity forgets... that it is a rigor of chess masters, not of angels." —Borges
Justin Murphy4 days ago
"Your business is to learn the names of programs, the long formal names, names the owners seek to conceal. True names."
Justin Murphy5 days ago
"Always do what you are afraid to do." —Mary Moody Emerson
Justin Murphy13 days ago
A short summary of the most remarkable economics book I've read this year, Gregory Clark's The Son Also Rises (2014)
Justin Murphy16 days ago
"Life eternal is the supreme good, death eternal the supreme evil, and that to obtain the one and escape the other we must live rightly."
Justin Murphy22 days ago
"The things I want are not in any country, nor in any job." —William Gaddis
Justin Murphy25 days ago
And what you should do instead.
Justin Murphya month ago
Meet the 7-foot albino who says you should petition directly the chambers of the historical absolute.
What the media won't tell you about the famous media theorist.
Can social science vindicate religion, or should we respect the Cartesian Bargain instituted 400 years ago?
“I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.”
"If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good." —Ezra Pound
Justin Murphy2 months ago
On the Pursuit of Artistic Excellence
"It all starts for you with a casual channel-hopper question: What's happening on the other side?"
"The most insignificant writer can serve peace, where the most powerful tribunals can do nothing."
Reflections on the judicious use of social media.
"Intelligence would be electrified by naïveté and humor."
Never seek to impress, having kids is no excuse, and the absolute necessity of a high-intensity, private friend group.
"A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light."
And how to find secret weapons.
Why you should never count yourself out as a writer, especially in the internet era.
Justin Murphy3 months ago
Reflections on Harold Bloom's How to Read and Why (2000)
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