flâneur

James Lin

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  • indeed, in our minds, the virtual certainty -- that the S&P will do far less well in the next decade or two than it has done since 1982.
    Chairman's Letter - 1999
  • Love is attention to detail, because these details will shape the depth of your conversations, the precision of your questions, the moments you choose to highlight in your public love letter.
    Jolie Gan | Portfolio, Projects, Prose et al.
  • ‘Anything can be great,’ Fast Eddie says. ‘I don’t care, bricklaying can be great.’ But you don’t lay bricks with the intention of accumulating a record number of points, and you certainly don’t do it to attain some kind of phoney celebrity. For flow to be authentic, it has to be for its own sake. The ego has to fall away. This is not so difficult when you’re immersed in the task itself; but when the task is over, all you have left is a list of accomplishments. So maybe for a while you start believing there’s something great about those.
    Even if you beat me - The Dublin Review
  • sister to The brown arc Of the neck I cannot catch
    Ariel
  • Coming face to face with the irrelevance of your own strivings demands some kind of response. You can wallow in the pretend celebrity if you want, continue attending competitions every weekend and dutifully appearing in selfies with beaming novices, in the belief that you are actually important.
    Even if you beat me - The Dublin Review
  • The most ambitious debaters go out of their way to absorb information about sexual violence, racial profiling, police brutality: issues many of them will never experience firsthand. I did the same thing. Did it make me more empathetic and self-aware? Or did it just continue to affirm the idea that if I were smart and competitive enough, I could speak for anyone I wanted?
    Even if you beat me - The Dublin Review