As long as it’s not defence…

"Because you do get institutionalized. When you take away a man’s freedom and teach him to live in a cell, he seems to lose his ability to think in dimensions. He’s like that jackrabbit I mentioned, frozen in the oncoming lights of the truck that is bound to kill it." (Stephen King , Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption)

If you’ve ever wondered if our money is debased, look no further than an IPO for a company valued at $1.75 trillion with annual revenues of $0.0187 trillion (and negative earnings).

Reviewing Readwise notes while waiting for a 05:00 flight… "The fact that we had neither nicotine nor caffeine also contributed to the state of apathy and irritability." (Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning)

"Over a cigarette, he considered the nature of the problem and what he might be able to do about it. (Skilled maintainers advise never trying to solve a new or complex problem without a thorough mulling first.)" (Stewart Brand, Maintenance of Everything)

"Entropy increased in the universe, and order decreased. The process was like the boundless wings of the giant balance bird pressing down upon all of existence. But low-entropy entities were different. The low-entropy entities decreased their entropy and increased their order, like columns of phosphorescence rising over the inky-dark sea. This was meaning, the highest meaning, higher than enjoyment. To maintain this meaning, low-entropy entities had to continue to exist." (Cixin Liu, Remembrance of Earth's Past)

"This country which he hated was now his native country, his home. He had lived here ten years, and every particle of his body was compounded of Burmese soil. Scenes like these—the sallow evening light, the old Indian cropping grass, the creak of the cartwheels, the streaming egrets—were more native to him than England. He had sent deep roots, perhaps his deepest, into a foreign country." (George Orwell, Burmese Days)

Maybe I don't understand basketball well enough, or rules have changed. But how is that first video not a travel?