The Asshole Factory
Great article from Umair Haque on the sterility of the modern world: The Great Enterprise of the Age of Stagnation is the wholesale manufacture not of great, world-shaking, ground-breaking ideas, … Continue reading
The proper spirit of travel
Robert Byron writes in The Road to Oxiana (my reference is to the Pimlico edition of 2004, page 317) about the proper spirit with which to engage in the adventurous … Continue reading
Thought for the day: Truth in Society
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish (a Palestinian doctor from Gaza, three of whose children were … Continue reading
Henry Miller: sound advice for life
If at eighty you’re not a cripple or an invalid, if you have your health, if you still enjoy a good walk, a good meal (with all the trimmings), if … Continue reading
Meaning in life
From the Harvard Business Review, of all places, comes this really rather good article by Clayton Christensen on the importance of assessing what you really want in life. This basically … Continue reading
Warfare as hunting: a Byzantine strategy
Warfare should be viewed like hunting, according to the old Byzantine text on the art of warfare, the the Strategikon has some useful and timely advice on how really to … Continue reading
