flâneur

Yashvardhan Sharma

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  • Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love. As we enter the holiday season I hope you get a chance to spend time with the people you care about. And if you can, travel with them. There is an old saying that “life is a journey.” In fact, life is many journeys. The more of them you take, the longer it will seem.
    How to Time Travel. I once met a traveler named Charlie. He… | by Brian Chesky | Medium
  • Repetition doesn’t create memories. New experiences do. Our perception of time is really driven by our perception of the unfamiliar, vivid and new.
    How to Time Travel. I once met a traveler named Charlie. He… | by Brian Chesky | Medium
  • The most intriguing thing about this theory, if it's right, is that it explains not merely which kinds of discussions to avoid, but how to have better ideas. If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible. [2] Most people reading this will already be fairly tolerant. But there is a step beyond thinking of yourself as x but tolerating y: not even to consider yourself an x. The more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you.
    Keep Your Identity Small
  • I think what religion and politics have in common is that they become part of people's identity, and people can never have a fruitful argument about something that's part of their identity. By definition they're partisan.
    Keep Your Identity Small
  • Politics, like religion, is a topic where there's no threshold of expertise for expressing an opinion. All you need is strong convictions.
    Keep Your Identity Small
  • Saying that an author lacks the authority to write about a topic is a variant of ad hominem—and a particularly useless sort, because good ideas often come from outsiders. The question is whether the author is correct or not. If his lack of authority caused him to make mistakes, point those out. And if it didn't, it's not a problem.
    How to Disagree