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You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.

Carl Jung (via qvotable)

NYC Subway Bacterial Petri Dish Art by Craig Ward

N.F. Burnham’s Water Wheel, patented on 7/16/1872. Handprint, date unknown. 

Series: Utility Patent Drawings, 1837 - 1911

Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836 - 1978

Image description: Exterior and interior views of a short, cylindrical device which has a number of moveable flaps around the circumference. 

Image description: The reverse of Page 1, with a Patent Office stamp, burns from the acidic ink on Page 3, and a large handprint, as though someone used a sticky or dirty hand to pick up the page.

Reddgio

(…) It will easily be seen in what consists the difference between a man who is led by emotion or opinion alone and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he wills it or not, does those things of which he is entirely ignorant, but the latter does the will of no one but himself, and does those things only which he knows are of greatest importance in life, and which he therefore desires above all things. I call the former, therefore, a slave, and the latter free.

Spinoza, Ethics (via fatenumber1)

wherever you go

Foster Island, Seattle, 1984

At night I dream of public transportation networks so efficient they make cars obsolete

When my mind hands me a small thought, I can ask “Is this true?” and my mind will answer “Good question, let’s go over three thousand different rationality techniques and see what answer each of them gives.

When my mind hands me a big thought, I ask "Is this true?” and my mind just answers “It better be, m——–r, cause this is how you’re gonna be thinking about everything from now on.”

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interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume?

me: mhm so that’s called a lacuna. it refers to when manuscripts have missing parts, lost to time. for example, the epic of gilgamesh has