"You can almost always find flaws in a research paper, (partic. social science). So if you only publish papers that are flawed AND politically corre… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It takes a certain type of person to waste intelligent concentration on classroom/academic problems. These are lifeless bureaucrats who can muster sterile motivation. Some people can only focus on problems that are REAL, not fictional textbook ones.

Markers of aging: 1- You stop learning something new 2- You talk too much about aging 3- The things you forget aren't the things you should be forgetting

Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost. Patrocles does not strike us as a hero because of his accomplishments (he was rapidly killed) but because he preferred to die than see Achilles sulking into inaction. Clearly, the epic poets understood invisible histories. Also later thinkers and poets had more elaborate methods for dealing with randomness, as we will see with stoicism.