Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

2020-01-19 Thread Tomasz Rola
[... snipped ...] - Ursula K. Le Guin "No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters" This is collection of essays on various subjects. I have also read her fiction stories from Earthsea and Hain cycles. So far, all of her books were worth it. - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky "Prisoners

Re: [silk] What did you change your mind about in 2019?

2020-01-19 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 09:32:10AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Like it says. What have you started or stopped believing in in 2019, and > why? Ooh, that is a good question. It made me realise that I actually live like an animal, only eating and reading from the net but not much

Re: [silk] What did you change your mind about in 2019?

2020-01-19 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 3:40 PM Peter Griffin wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 9:32 AM Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > > Like it says. What have you started or stopped believing in in 2019, and > > why? > Kindness, and its importance. Not so much a changing of mind as a slow > realisation over time.

Re: [silk] What did you change your mind about in 2019?

2020-01-19 Thread José María Mateos
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 08:13:27PM -0800, Heather Madrone wrote: In a similar vein, I realized that I deeply value quirky businesses where people come together to try to fill a need in the world. Many of these businesses provide mundane things at reasonable costs, and the people who work there