The best ideas come from good conversation. I remember something similar engraved in my favourite building at the University of Toronto, except “ideas” was replaced with “learning.” I always felt it was the most humble propaganda I have ever seen. As a solitary person, however, I am thinking now of all the understandings that have come to me while I’m alone at my computer, or lying down with wild abandon and a rapid mind in the middle of the night. I started this way because I was about to start a different way: with a book a friend gave me. This made me think that I start a lot of my ideas with a prompt or reminder I have heard from a friend in one of our more human-centric conversations. In any case or in all cases, or in both cases in this case, the book is called
so well written!