A little disappointed to find that neither the cathedral nor the chapel in the Savoy Palace felt like a special energy.

lmao, wanted to get euros in Kreuzberg and walked into this🧐

Nietzsche hands down found one of the world's loveliest spots for walking "Hier ... ist mir bei weitem am wohlsten auf Erden." Sils Maria, Engadin, Switzerland

Silence causes the brain to massively expand It is important to spend time in silence daily, doing absolutely nothing

Don't allow this to happen to you. From Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson.

Lyndon Johnson. Don't overthink. Go for it.

The quiet drive is a meditation. Don't default to music and podcasts and chatter to fill the silence. Lyndon Johnson. "In that car sometimes he would be quiet for hours and hours. He’d never close his eyes, and he’d never say a word. He’d just be thinking."

In 1927, future President Lyndon Johnson was about to drop out of college. I just can’t make it, and I’ve got to drop out,” he wrote to an old friend and asked for a job. What that friend did tells us a lot about the nature of Money. alchemyofmoney.blog

🫡 time to change the nick & avatar @neckarvalue > Frederik Gieschen

The magic of Twitter/X. "A few weeks ago Mario Draghi asked my recommendations for his report that came out today about European competitiveness"

Robert Penn Warren knew about the dreams "I had reached the stage in my problem where there was nothing to do but pray."

Power of naps and dreams.

Stanley Kubrick. "I tried to create a visual experience, one that bypasses verbalized pigeonholing and directly penetrates the subconscious with an emotional and philosophic content." "If 2001 succeeds at all, it is in reaching a wide spectrum of people who would not often give

"How much would we appreciate La Gioconda (the Mona Lisa) if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: “This lady is smiling slightly because she has rotten teeth”—or “because she’s hiding a secret from her lover”? It would shut off the viewer’s appreciation and shackle

Harry Crews. If you wait for the time, you’ll never do it.

What a story. Ford CEO Jim Farley travels to China with his CFO in 2023 for the first time since the pandemic. They test drive an electric SUV from their Chinese joint venture partner Changan and suddenly realize Chinese automakers are now ahead of them.