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But favors are accretive. The more you do, the more you can do. People learn they can rely on you and come to you when they need something. If you help them, they are always eager to return the favor. Without you even realizing it, your bank of karma can grow Too Big to Fail.”
even something as inconsequential as wanting a lawn in front of our homes isn’t a true choice. It’s the product of a never-ending series of historical accidents. We take the world we’re born into for granted. We imagine that we control our thoughts and dreams. We think we’re free to be who we want to be. But there’s this vast hidden architecture that shapes us, and we don’t even know it. It’s like we’re actors in a play who don’t realize we’re working off a script.”
Maybe this was the natural way of things. Career nonprofit staff spiraled into cynicism as they faced the futility of so many failed social-impact projects while savvy lobbyists discovered idealism like divorcées falling back in love.
Joy was nothing but a cursory peak on the sine wave of life.
The crowds through which Dag roamed were filled with people in that special category of borderless professional, the post-nation-state elite who flitted between Manhattan boardrooms, San Francisco hacker dens, and Delhi art galleries with equal ease.
Politics is the gap between what is and what should be.”
Critical thinking without hope was cynicism, while hope without critical thinking was naïveté.
