Cody Peterson ∴

Don’t: schedule multiple meetings right before a big deadline, show up late to one of the meetings, attend a meeting when you are coming down with a cold*, say you don’t want a water, ask for a water less than three minutes later after your dry throat seizes up, get confused about who referred you for this project, remember who referred you (it’s the…

– Leo Tolstoy, The Cossacks

Leaving Moscow, he was possessed of that happy mood wherein a young man suddenly tells himself that everything that has happened to him so far is unreal, accidental, unimportant, that until that moment he has not tried to live. Now that he was leaving Moscow, he was making a new…