Fire and Knowledge

This must have taken a very long time to create. Weird but impressive:

Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth.

—Niccolo Machiavelli, as quoted in Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek (2007), p. 220.

I have no idea how I missed a video with 15 million views. However, if you like cats, “The Mean Kitty Song” is worth three minutes of your life:

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

—George Bernard Shaw, as quoted in Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek (2007), p. 217.

From CNN:

A wall holding back 80 acres of sludge from a coal plant in central Tennessee broke this week, spilling more than 500 million gallons of waste into the surrounding area.

he sludge, a byproduct of ash from coal combustion, was contained at a retention site at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s power plant in Kingston, about 40 miles east of Knoxville, agency officials said.

The retention wall breached early Monday, sending the sludge downhill and damaging 15 homes. All the residents were evacuated, and three homes were deemed uninhabitable, a TVA spokesman told CNN….

TVA spokesman Gil Francis told CNN that up to 400 acres of land had been coated by the sludge, a bigger area than the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.

An expensive mistake that has cost many families their homes and land. They better be generously compensated — though there is probably no monetary compensation that can make up for losing their homes like this. It’s frustrating that people have to suffer for the mistake of a corporation.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

—Robert Frost, as quoted in Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek (2007), p. 207.

Incredible. Only three strings:

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