2025-08-07, of weeks and ends
2025-08-06, of focus and forms
2025-08-05, of bubbles and collapses
2025-08-04, of models and bullshit
2025-08-03, of models and slot machines
power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely – great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority—Lord Acton, Letter to Bishop Creighton (1887)
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops—Stephen Jay Gould, «Wide Hats and Narrow Minds» (1979)