The Code of Hammurabi shows one of humanity’s early attempts to turn power into public law: written rules, visible standards, and punishments tied to social order.
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Michael Alan Prestwood.
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2024.
Life becomes calmer when you stop demanding perfect certainty. Your impressions are imperfect, but they are enough to help you learn and grow.
For thousands of years, writing had very little grammar. Grammar helps, and you should respect grammar, but serve the reader first.
Carr’s 1961 quote reminds us that facts do not become history by themselves. History emerges when evidence is selected, organized, interpreted, and placed into a meaningful story.
From History: Maya, Illusion.
Your cognitive biases, your predictable distortions in judgment, require conscious correction through disciplined thinking. First step, admit you have them.