Long Read: The Bicycle Thief

Steven Leckart | 54 minutes

Tom Justice was once a cyclist chasing Olympic gold. Then he began using his bike for a much different purpose: robbing banks.

Snippets

For those to whom the word "work" automatically implies the dutiful plodding kind, they are.
But for the skaters, the relationship between work and life would be better represented by a dash than a slash.

- Paul Graham, A Project of One's Own

Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it.
Not learning other people’s ideas, or memorizing a body of information, however much those may sometimes be useful. Developing your own ideas.

In short, thinking for yourself.

- William Deresiewicz, Solitude and Leadership

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