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What I would like to do is use the time that is coming now to talk about some things that have come to mind. We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone. Now that we do have some time, and know it, I would like to use the time to talk in some depth about things that seem important.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
Whatever your self-archetype, it is the construct through which your sense of self inexorably gathers momentum through life.
Loser, clueless, sociopath; these are taxonomies of action, not perjoratives. Nevertheless, the deals on offer here seem underwhelming for all three: bullshit jobs, precarity, entrepreneurs as self-growing, self-harvesting labor; what are the winning numbers? There are none, at least none that are stable in the long term. There are simply strategies for exploration and exploitation, and strategies for shifting between them.
We Have Them Surrounded in Their Tanks
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