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@alexwastaken
@alexwastaken
The following constraints have given me more freedom with my time, money, and energy:
Budgeting every dollar. All impulse purchasing has screeched to a halt. I can’t recommend it enough.
Eating like a dog. Eat pretty much the same things everyday, cheap, quick, real, whole, and healthy but still delicious (think eggs on toast, soup...)
Dressing for my
Walking the path reveals more of the map
"Accept a no with the same grace you would a yes"
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing
-Ben Franklin
Be dangerous, its careful out there
We deserve the challenge of becoming all that we can become.
— John O'Donohue
via Gurwinder:
Conservatives show more empathy for liberals than vice-versa, study finds. My theory: since people tend to move rightward as they age, many rightists, having once been leftist, view leftists as naïve, but most leftists, having never been rightist, view rightists as simply evil.
“Some people dislike solutions precisely because they rob them of the opportunity to complain.” ―
If you resist the reality of slow progress, five years from now you'll simply be five years older and still looking for a shortcut.
AI will create an existential crisis of epic proportions, as all the dividing lines that are foundational to society—between reality and deception, truth and lies, fact and error—collapse.
-Ted Gioia