1. Never realized one could be allergic to corn, although you can be allergic to anything, of course.

2. For everything, there is a trade-off.

3. The systems department resetting my computer overnight can be deflating. I have so many programs and tabs to open to get back to where I was.

4. Be known for things that are good.

5. “As I once put it: “As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to biological, psychological and sociological conditions. But in addition to being a professor in two fields I am a survivor of four camps —concentration camps, that is—and as such I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.””

–Victor Frankl, Man’s Search For Meaning

1. I prefer physical books. But digital ones are just so much more convenient to carry, highlight, and curate!

2. At least we got a lot of reading done.

3. For most career related issues, worst case scenario is relatively not that bad. So calm down.

4. Sometimes, it is easier to show up for things that don’t matter.

5. “Like idleness itself, there is a paradoxical purpose to flânerie: slow walking may seem like a waste of time to your man of business, but to the creative spirit it is a fertile activity, for it is when walking that the flâneur thinks and generates ideas…Try it. Start small: be a flâneur in your lunch hour. Mooch. Dawdle. Float. There is a highly pleasurable feeling of superiority over others and of being in control of one’s own destiny when one simply slows down the pace, and allows oneself to drift. To walk in this way is to refuse to become a victim of the city, but instead helps one to grasp it and enjoy it. You are a saint, not a sinner!”

–Tom Hodgkinson, How To Be Idle