The Bodega at the End of the Internet

“Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.

my people my people

I thought

the fall would

kill me

but it only

made me real

He felt oddly empty now that he no longer had the key to work on—purposeless and directionless.

Once we donned our uniforms, we were all equals regardless of gender, age, or nationality—all simply store workers.

"Hold on," she said, or words to this effect. "Are you still under the illusion that you'll one day reach a point in your life where you no longer have any problems?"

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

• Find a reason: You need to be working towards something.

• Don’t fall in love with projects: Most things fail don’t get emotionally attached.

• Build boring things that people need

• Build first before overthinking: Overthinking kills dreams

our political discourse has become so flat. For example, we can’t even talk about working-class people anymore. When did everybody become “middle class”? And even those of us who might objectively be “middle class” can still identify with the working class. There’s something wrong with the fact that we can not talk about the working class.