Chubmeister 5000
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i bless you with the healing power of love
Chubmeister 5000
cosmos.so
Take a close look at what you assume the solution to your life must look like. Are there any of those assumptions that you could turn into variables instead? As in: “Sure, I’ll sign with a label if it helps me spend more time jamming and less time doing things that frustrate me. Otherwise—no.”
Henrik Karlsson • An Essay in Which My Friend Feels Stuck and I Suggest Relaxing Some Constraints
Optimal grip and Hmmm
The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it… [T]he work itself. It drives the spooks away.
-Bonnie Friedman
It will probably be harder to start working than to keep working. You'll often have to trick yourself to get over that initial threshold. Don't worry about this; it's the nature of work, not a flaw in your character. Work has a sort of activation energy, both per day and per project. And since this threshold is fake in the sense that it's higher... See more
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
Zen can essentially be reduced to three things.
Everything changes;
everything is interconnected;
pay attention to it.