Podcasts, talks, etc.

“Most of modern life; all our diseases are diseases of abundance, not diseases of scarcity. In the old times we starved. In the old times, if I got sugar, that was a wonderful thing, I should've eaten all the sugar I could get my hands on. If I got a piece of news or gossip, that was interesting data that would've helped my life and moved me forward. If I've gotten some brief amount of entertainment, whether through video games or magazines or whatever, that would've been good. Now it's all diseases of abundance. We're overexposed to everything. So the way to survive in modern society is to be an ascetic. It is to retreat from society. There's too much society everywhere you go. Society in your phone, society in your pockets, society in your ears, you're being socialized right now by listening to this podcast; we're socializing you, we're programming you. Everyone's trying to program everybody. The only solution is to turn it off.” —Naval Ravikant

“This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never been seen before. The manifestation of the wind of thought is not knowledge, but the ability to tell right from wrong, beautiful from ugly. And I hope that thinking gives people the strength to prevent catastrophes in these rare moments when the chips are down.” —Hannah Arendt