Richard Hamming's famous 1986 Bell Labs talk on what makes the difference between a great researcher and an ordinary one — the habits, the courage, the daily choices about what to work on.
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The thesis of every worthwhile midlife crisis: the doors that change your life are the ones you refuse to seal shut behind you.
The Mexican embrace of uncertainty, forged in the crucible of history, captures a truer vulnerability of human existence than Western certitudes offer.
When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a woodcarver's gouge, a surgeon's suture.
The first sentence of every writer's manifesto, including this one. The line is the work; everything after it is excavation.