Mark Storm

This is where Twitter ends for me…   “I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.” — Michel de Montaigne

Painting: Floral Still Life, 1639, by Hans Bollongier; oil on panel, 67.6 x 53.3 cm. Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. @rijksmuseum rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/…

This is where Twitter ends for me…   “I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.” — Michel de Montaigne

[2/2] “... are paradoxically both rigorous and nimble.” — Nancy Kline, from ‘Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind’ (first published in 1999 by Ward Lock)

[Time for another weekend break from Twitter...] [1/2] “The best conditions for thinking, if you really stop and notice, are not tense. They are gentle. They are quiet. They are unrushed. They are stimulating but not competitive. They are encouraging. They ...”

How effective is William MacAskill’s altruism? — “Silicon Valley's favourite ethical system is fatally flawed.” @unherd (by Arif Ahmed) unherd.com/2022/11/how-ef…

The line of beauty — Why we’re glad to be alive. @TheTLS (by Kieran Setiya) the-tls.co.uk/articles/this-…

Meetings Are Miserable — “One of the most straightforward paths to happiness at work is to fight against the scourge of time-consuming, unproductive meetings at every opportunity.” @TheAtlantic (by @arthurbrooks) theatlantic.com/family/archive…

@white_owly ‘The Beauty of Everyday Things,’ Soetsu Yanagi (Penguin Modern Classics, 2019). markstorm.nl/28012019

@white_owly See ∆ ‘Muji’ (無地): “The Japanese view, on the other hand, has largely sought the beauty of the plain and the unadorned as its ultimate goal.” markstorm.nl/01032019

“The stealthiest danger in a world shaken by ongoing calamities might be that calamity becomes ordinary. We learn to cope with it from day to day, but lose the ability to imagine beyond it.”

In an Age of Constant Disaster, What Does It Mean to Rebuild? — “Each catastrophe is a test of what kind of society we’ve built. And each recovery offers a chance, however fleeting, to build another.” @nytimes (by Matthew Thompson) www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nytime…

“Integrity, the seed of virtue planted in one’s inner voice, so easily drowned out by the din of social media and peer pressure, speaks in just a whisper.”

Integritas: the Importance of Being Whole — “Integrity is the sine qua non, the essential ingredient, of civic virtue and a litmus test for our times.” @AntigoneJournal (by John Rob) antigonejournal.com/2022/10/integr…

[2/2] “… that we need in order to co-create the real world as adults.”

[1/2] “One of the first steps we can take towards generating internal accountability is to develop an assessment of why the world is as it is. This requires us to leap from the uninformed faith we have in the societal myths we were given as children, to the informed faith …”

Murmurations: Returning to the Whole — “To heal ourselves, we must remember that we are a small part of a much greater whole.” @yesmagazine (by Adrienne Maree Brown) #Echobox=1668668566" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">yesmagazine.org/opinion/2022/0…

‘The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World,’ by Max Fisher (Quercus, 2022). @QuercusBooks quercusbooks.co.uk/titles/max-fis…

The Chaos Machine — “This is a story not only of technology but also of what happens when it commingles with fragile psychologies and vulnerable societies.” @Lit_Review (by Carl Miller) literaryreview.co.uk/are-you-outrag…

The woolliest words in business — A a plea for managers to use woolly words thoughtfully. ⁦@TheEconomist⁩ (by Bartleby) economist.com/business/2022/…

Free Market Genocides: The Real History of Trade — “What role should greed play in how we run the world? Should it rule us and shape all that we do?” @EvonomicsMag (by Jag Bhalla) evonomics.com/free-market-ge…