The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident... →
Sebastian Junger
When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up... →
I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief... →
I have been working since I was 20, and I'm 38. I actually once averaged out what I had made over my professional life. I think I could have made... →
In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence, an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss... →
I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life... →
Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf?
There are no journalistic ethics that transcend the value of human life. There are none. In a situation where you can save a human life, you must.... →
Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is.
Steve Jurvetson
While, in general, life satisfaction goes up with wealth, beyond the safety net more and more wealth brings very radically diminishing returns on... →