No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
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“Once you cross a certain threshold, money doesn’t get you more happiness. Our main concern is that if you have growth which is blind, fed by people’s growing consumption, it’s not really sustainable. What we are trying to do in our own little context is see what pattern of growth will be sustainable and desirable.”
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I could easily create a Venn diagram exploring the nexus between golf and life with PD: They overlap in hubris and humility, delusion and desire, futility and resilience.
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slip into another reality. It’s one of the million iterations of time travel—to visit a world that’s pre-me. My time hadn’t begun, and therefore it hadn’t begun to run out.