![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Popova tells Nerdette hosts Tricia Bobeda and Greta Johnsen about her rigorous daily diet of reading, writing, tweeting and reflecting, and her newest guilty pleasure: Playing bridge. She is the host of the Nerdette podcast where she explains how her job is to reflect on everything from literature and physics to astronomy and art. – “Guilt is the flip side of prestige and they’re both horrible reasons to do something.” Maria Popova Podcast – “I am driven by the yearning to learn how to live how to lead a meaningful life the fear of not having yet learned how to die.” – “Literature is the original Internet – every footnote, every citation, every allusion is essentially a hyperlink to another text, to another mind.” According to her twitter profile, Maria Popova is 'an interestingness curator & semi-secret geek obsessed with design, storytelling & TED. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE AND BOOKPAGE Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the. – “those who stand to gain from the manipulation of truth often prey on those bereft of critical thinking.” – “Nobody knows what goes on between two hearts including, more often than not, the people in whose chests they beat.” ![]() – “History is not what happened, but what survives the shipwrecks of judgment and chance.” – “Greatness is consistency driven by a deep love of the work.” ![]()
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