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Also related, but not so much:

Intellectuals are usually stunted by their intellect. They over-think, over-plan, over-argue, and eventually they don't do anything.

We, men gifted with a flicker of intellect, believe that thinking is the one tool that can encompass the whole world and explain it. And only after explaining the world, we can find our way through it "safely" and "predictably." But we always forget that thinking, just like every other ability of ours, is limited, and that our minds, just like every other organ of ours, can only handle so much. Precisely because of our human limitedness and profound ignorance of the world and future, we have no other choice but to take risks and to have faith that "things will turn out good."

That does not mean that planning is useless. As all generals learn, war plans never survive first contact with the enemy, but planning is nonetheless an indispensable preparation for battle.

- Immoderate Greatness, by William Ophuls

"Planning is everything, plans are nothing"

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Modern politics has reached the end of its tether. The modern political paradigm—that is, the body of political concepts and beliefs bequeathed to us by the philosophical movement known as the Enlightenment—is no longer intellectually tenable or practically viable. We are therefore in deep political crisis and confront the necessity for an abrupt and decisive change to a radically different type of politics.

- Requiem For Modern Politics, by William Ophuls

The traditional teaching method of “see one, do one, teach one” in surgical residency programs is simple but still applicable

إنّ الهُمومَ نساءٌ تَغار،
فتَحجِبُ صاحِبَها عن همومِ سِواه.
همومُكَ مِثلُ الغواني تُريدُكَ كُلّك،
إنْ شارَكَتهُنّ فيكَ همومُ سِواكَ،
تَحَرَّرتَ مِنْ أسرِهِنّ.

يُشَتِّتنَ عَينَيكَ مِثلَ البغايا،
ويَبنينَ حَولَكَ سِجنًا وجُدرانُه مِن مرايا،
ويُمعِنَّ...
حَدِّق بوَجهِكَ يا نرجِسَ الحُسنِ والحُزن
حدِّق هنا واستَكِن
وافتَتِن،
بجمالِ الضحيّة

Depression can be described sometimes as emotional myopia: you become too short-sighted emotionally, too focused on your own feelings that they get exaggerated and—no matter how insignificant they are—they occupy all your attention.

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"Absence" by Alex Russel Flint

Empty chairs—
poems dedicated to longing.

Notes on ECG:

• RBBB (Right-Bundle Branch Block) is usually benign and can be considered a normal variant in ECG, while LBBB is always pathological.

• Right-axis deviation can be benign especially in tall, thin people. While left-axis deviation is always pathological.

• 1st degree heart block and Mobitz l (wenckebach phenomenon) are also relatively benign in themselves, although they can be signs for other abnormalities like coronary heart disease. Mobitz ll is always pathological.

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