📫 Clean Slate & Omelet – Weekend Words #034

Powerful reminders for a smarter weekend

May 10, 2025

Happy Mother’s Day Weekend to all the moms out there.

Here are your Weekend Words: clean slate and omelet.

“Starting anew with a clean slate has been one of the most harmful ideas in history. It treats previous knowledge as an impediment and imagines that only present knowledge deployed in theoretical purity can make real the wondrous new vision.”

— Stewart Brand, The Clock of the Long Now

“You might need to break eggs to make an omelet, but that’s no excuse to burn down the entire kitchen.”

— Costas Papaikonomou, The Disruption Fallacy

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