Burrowing into Books

  Sydney M. Williams www.swtotd.blogspot.com   Thought of the Day “Select Colleges: Supply/Demand Imbalances & Other Thoughts” July 14, 2023   “When supply can’t keep up with demand, the result is bidding wars. And in bidding wars, there are always winners and there are losers. There are no beneficial outcomes. So from an economic perspective, this is extremely wasteful.”                                                                                                      ...

                                                                                     Sydney M. Williams More Essays from Essex “TMI” May 6, 2023   “We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.”                                                                                         ...

  Sydney M. Williams www.swtotd.blogspot.com   Thought of the Day “Victimhood” August 15, 2022   “There is a difference between victimization and victimhood. We are all likely to be victimized in some way in the course of our lives. At some point we will suffer some kind of affliction or calamity or abuse, caused by circumstances or people or institutions over which we have little or no control… In contrast, victimhood comes from the inside. No one can make you a victim but you. We become victims not because of what happens to us but when we choose to hold on to our victimization…”                                                                                                                 ...

                                                             Sydney M. Williams www.swtotd.blogspot.com   Thought of the Day “Climate Change and the Importance of Skepticism” August 28, 2021   “ The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought .”                                                                                                               Walter Gilbert (1932-)                                               ...

Sydney M. Williams burrowingintobooks.blogspot.com Burrowing into Books “Wind Sprints” by Joseph Epstein September 2, 2019 “ I myself fall into the last category – those writers who feel a desolating sense of uselessness if a few days go by without their writing anything, and writing it for publication .”                                                                                                 Joseph Epstein (1937-) Introduction Wind Sprints 2016     ...