Bandwidth (Analog #1)

by Eliot Peper

building something meaningful requires you to let go of the obsession with perfection. It requires empowering others and trusting them to do their part, even if they do it differently than you might have. But trust is a two-way street. Autonomy means you’re held accountable.”

those who travel with the current will always feel they are good swimmers, while those who swim against the current may never realize they are better swimmers than they imagine,”

Lawns are worthless. They take acreage and labor to maintain yet produce nothing of value. Lawns were invented in the late Middle Ages by nobles who wanted to flaunt their wealth. Lawns are pure luxury.

just like any other addiction, convincing yourself that you were smarter than everyone else was ultimately self-destructive.

History could seem irrelevant to the present’s unrelenting pace of change. What insights could a medieval text bring to bear when science had transformed the human experience so completely?

Books are sharks, he remembered reading somewhere once. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.

Those who travel with the current will always feel they are good swimmers, while those who swim against the current may never realize they are better swimmers than they imagine.

Critical thinking without hope was cynicism, while hope without critical thinking was naïveté.

Everyone imagined their political opponents to be infallible leviathans who ruled with ruthless efficiency and relentless execution. But few plots survived contact with reality. The tangled network of human relationships that was the political arena was so complex that something inevitably went awry. It was through those cracks that new players clawed hand over bloody hand into the game.

Just look at today's political scene