Michele Pasin / Quotes

Blacking out in the bath

Finally, I washed them down with a wineglass of water and repacked the rest in the foil. I had barely stashed it away when the trip started to come on. I had…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #fear #ego #risk

Ego death and the risk of psychosis

The next morning I still felt dislocated and physically in shock. What had happened? I’d had experiences of overload before, brief episodes from trips I…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #ego #death #risk #fear

The free spirit

that overplus which confers upon the free spirit the perilous prerogative of spending a life in experiment and of running adventurous risks: the…

Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits #health #years #risk #life

Togliersi le scarpe e bagnarsi i piedi

Del resto possiamo prevedere tutto? Sappiamo quando moriremo? Magari i nostri denari sono anche troppi se moriamo anzitempo! E chi ci dice che non sarà così?…

Adesso basta (Simone Perotti) #risk #freedom #death #life

Algorithms herd more than human investors

Today, the stock market is almost completely automated. Complex algorithms execute trades in milliseconds, making decisions involving billions of dollars…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #algorithm #finance #behavior #risk

Diventare committente di se stessi

Quando ha deciso di buttarsi in quest’impresa sapeva che caricarsi sulle spalle tutto l’onere del progetto sarebbe stato un impegno ben diverso dal suo…

Villa Metaphora (Andrea De Carlo) #ambition #risk #work #anxiety