Aurora Fisketjøn Otterå
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Aurora Fisketjøn Otterå
"do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error"
“In the short term it is often the environment that shapes the player... but in the long run it is the players that shape the environment.”
This game theory problem will change the way you see the world
“In the short term it is often the environment that shapes the player… but in the long run it is the players that shape the environment.”
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
“I don't know what I think until I write it down.”
― Joan Didion
“Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely
... See more"Writers are always selling somebody out".
Joan Didion
"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear".
Joan Didion
Reflecting on this email from a Sublime believer:
Consuming media has become a massive time-suck for humankind. Only decades ago, the average person had one source of information, if any — the newspaper. Journalists chronicled happenings relevant to their community. And that was it. Someone got married, someone is selling their house, someone died,
... See moreMy beginnings are not beginnings; I just start. Sometimes I have to write the beginning after the book is done. Well, that seems like a natural thing, but many people don't go forward because the beginning isn't right; they just leave it until they get it right. I write what's there, what I know is there. If I have to rewrite it or change it, I'm... See more