The Meaning of Life

I wrote a brilliant post on this subject but it seems to have disappeared.


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Nicely Done

A Large Regular has Regina Specktor with "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."

A Treat

The other day, I got more than my normal amount of sleep.

I had forgotten how great that is.

And, oddly enough, when I got up everything I needed to do was waiting for me.

Hmm

No one in Birmingham had ever broken his promise to the Mayor; surely nobody in Europe would break his promise to the Prime Minister of England.

- Duff Cooper, "Chamberlain: A Candid Portrait" quoted in Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War by Tim Bouverie

A Life of Virtue

JP Sears on the advantages of being a Tesla owner.

Off the Grid

Mainly sitting and thinking.

Back soon.


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Surprise

The chair of a twelve-person committee was surprised that the chair of a three-person committee was able to get so much done in such a short amount of time.

It is, of course, hard to explain.

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Intuition

Intuition is a poor guide but a great guard. 



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The Meeting Index Card

At the end of each important meeting, fill out an index card with your response to this question:

"Specifically what do I have to do now?"


[Some day you'll thank me for that.]

First Paragraph

The desire to avoid a second world war was perhaps the most understandable and universal wish in history. More than 16.5 million people died during the First World War. The British lost 723,000; the French 1.7 million; the Russians 1.8 million; the British Empire 230,000; the Germans over 2 million. Twenty thousand British soldiers died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, while the ossuary at Douaumont contains the bones of some 130,000 French and German soldiers - a mere sixth of those killed during the 302-day Battle of Verdun. Among the survivors there was scarcely a soul that was not affected. Almost everyone had a father, husband, son, brother, cousin, fiancé, or friend killed or maimed. When it was over, not even the victors could feel victorious. The Cenotaph, unveiled on Whitehall on June 19, 1919, was no Arc de Triomphe but a symbol of loss. Every Armistice Day, thousands of Britons shuffled past it in mournful silence, while, on both sides of the Channel, schools, villages, towns, and railway stations commemorated friends and colleagues with their own memorials. In the years that followed the mantra was as consistent as it was determined: "Never again!"

- From Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War by Tim Bouverie

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