James House on Clubhouse

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💻Tech: software, open source, distributed systems, robotics, 3D printing, physics
🤷‍♂️Society: political systems, economics, psychology
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Interpret my words with candour, and answer me, I conjure you, with confidence and sincerity.
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Why is everything so hard?

And wherefore was it glorious? Not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror; because, at every new incident, your fortitude was called forth, and your courage exhibited; because danger and death surrounded, and these dangers you were to brave and overcome. For this was it a glorious, for this it was an honorable undertaking.

Are you mad, my friend? Or wither does your senseless curiosity lead you? Would you also create for yourself and the world a demoniacal enemy? Or to what do your questions tend? Peace, peace! Learn my mysteries, and do not seek to increase your own.
- Mary Shelley


Best ever reading of Moby Dick : https://librivox.org/moby-dick-by-herman-melville Give it a try to at least chapter 19 (of 135), it’s a tough book to get into, but well worth the effort. This reader (Stewart Wills) makes it enjoyable.