Being in shape was not my goal. My body was a tool to test the capabilities of my will.

I climbed on the rowing ergometer, and started to pull - losing myself in the rhythm of sweat and pain.

That morning each of us found a breaking point. Not only a physical barrier, but a point where determination, stamina and duty clashed and were overcome not so much by pain but by absurdity.

Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than rowing an allegory of life.

The ergometer simulates the physical demands of rowing, packaging the pains with none of the amenities that make it worthwhile.

Those of us who stayed were younger, more tractable. Less sure of ourselves socially and intellectually, we gave ourselves to the sport with little idea of what we could give or receive.

We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage...

When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that's time-shifted?

Thomas Henri Huxley often preached tolerance, but in practice he could not wait to go after religion and religious people in the most scornful of terms.[Curb your enthusiasm, 2016]

You can't be pessimistic because there are so many things that go wrong every day that if you were to be negative or pessimistic you'd go out of business.

The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.

For digital natives, public schools are jails

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

The scent of the morning is prepared by the night; the scent of the night is prepared by the day; everything helps everything!

Most economics that is taught in college and universities today projects itself as a value-neutral science. This claim has always been open to question, but I think it's especially in doubt today.