Quote of the Day: 28 February 2026 #QotD

“The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.” -Hobbes, Calvin and Hobbes
[Is anything worth doing if you can't be smug about it? I mean, really.]

Quote of the Day: 27 February 2026 #QotD

“The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured.” -Cal Newport
[It is hard to know how best to organize mental effort and work when it is something that has been only relatively recently engaged in by a large portion of the population.]

Quote of the Day: 26 February 2026 #QotD

“Nightmares are a fluid terror. Once you get the briefest handle on one, it will change.” -Hoid, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
[It's been a while since I've had a true nightmare. They are supremely unpleasant. I hope not to experience one again.]

Quote of the Day: 25 February 2026 #QotD

“Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.” -FitzChivalry Farseer, Assassin’s Apprentice
[It can be really disheartening to have no hope of success. It can even cause the failure and become a self-fulfilling sentiment. So, live bravely, full of audacity. What have you got to lose?]

Quote of the Day: 24 February 2026 #QotD

“You're either a man or a woman. Your body is geared to produce large or small gametes, that's it.

“You can't change that and it's insulting to me to be forced to say something I know is not true or otherwise bend over backwards to rephrase my words so that I don't end up disturbing someone's delusion.” -Robb Allen

[Truth is truth regardless of your insistence that things are otherwise, and falsity is still untrue irrespective of your feelings.]

Quote of the Day: 23 February 2026 #QotD

“Just the getting of money—that is really the be all and end all for most rich men. Plough it back into bigger enterprises, make more money still. But why? Do they ever stop to ask themselves why? They don’t know.” -Mr. Venables, The Pale Horse
[When you've lost track of the true meaning of life, and you view money as a method of keeping score between people it's easy to see how the accumulation of wealth can become the object of your existence. It's not mine, but I do try to increase my personal wealth with the aim to improving my life and having the ability to leave a legacy for my posterity. But I could be just as happy not to accumulate as much.]

Quote of the Day: 22 February 2026 #QotD

“When I kneel in prayer, I think on how I can give God my will.” -Jeremy R. Jaggi