December 2011
35 posts
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“Blurting out [brutal honesty] is too hard to distinguish from passive agressive...”
– stcredzero @ news.yc
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“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new...”
– Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address
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Why nerds make great boyfriends. →
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“Technology bestows rights in a way which is true and real far beyond the law....”
– Drew Crawford, On the enforceability of laws
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“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the...”
– William Arthur Ward
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“The map is not the territory.”
– Alfred Korzybski
Hey guys! I started a new blog. Take a look and... →
WatchI was sitting watching a film when I suddenly remembered listening to some “punky female-fronted music which sounded like country music and yet wasn’t” that I used to listen to sometime in 2009 while looking for work.
Took me 50 minutes of aimlessly and fruitlessly searching through my last.fm loved tracks to find it. It’s not as good as I remember and maybe this...
Leader-Follower by Dee Hock →
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“Most real-world systems have a single constraint that limits the system’s...”
– bumbledraven @ news.yc
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“Focus attention on opportunities not problems, strengths not weaknesses and what...”
– Change How You See Everything
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“The pen is mightier than the sword; the pencil is mightier than the pen.”
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“Perfect is the enemy of good enough; good enough is the enemy of at all.”
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A Message to Garcia →
“I really don’t know what I was looking for when I got back from the war,...”
– The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit
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“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be...”
– Steve Jobs
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“Both men stopped. White Fang was howling as dogs howl when their masters lie...”
– White Fang
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“It began to look as though the battle were over. The backers of Cherokee waxed...”
– White Fang
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Faux Friendship →
So information replaces experience, as it has throughout our culture. But when I think about my friends, what makes them who they are, and why I love them, it is not the names of their siblings that come to mind, or their fear of spiders. It is their qualities of character. This one’s emotional generosity, that one’s moral seriousness, the dark humor of a third. Yet even those are...
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“Math was rote memorization and regurgitation of algorithms which I had trouble...”
– gatlin @ news.yc
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“[I told the fourth-graders] I was thinking of a number between 1 and 10,000....”
– John Holt, How Children Fail
“Considering corporations as analogous to a nation state reveals the following...”
– Wikileaks Editors
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“Nonfiction conveys information. Fiction conveys emotion.”
– Sol Stein
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Passivity is the worst submission.
Passivity is the worst submission because it is submission without individual intention to life itself. Of all the things I have learnt this was the most worthwhile, the most horrendous to learn and the hardest to clarify.
It’s importance to me means I don’t internalise it as a negative but as the positive:
Belief, Thought, Action
I live these three words. They may seem obvious but...