Food for thought
When Dostoyevsky places the phrase “beauty will save the world” in the mouth of Prince Myshkin(from the book, the idiot), it is not offered as a solution, nor even as a belief that can be defended. It arrives instead as a fragile utterance, almost exposed, spoken by a man whose goodness appears maladapted to the world he inhabits. Myshkin is
... See moreThe hard part of computer programming isn’t expressing what we want the machine to do in code. The hard part is turning human thinking – with all its wooliness and ambiguity and contradictions – into computational thinking that is logically precise and unambiguous, and that can then be expressed formally in the syntax of a programming language.
The Future of Software Development is Software Developers
Bill Burr’s advice will banish anxiety from your life:
“You’re gonna be fine. And even if you’re not gonna be fine, isn’t it better to just exist thinking you’re gonna be fine. And then when it’s not fine you can just f*cking handle it then.”
"Focus on the things you are for, not the things you are against.
Many people spend large chunks of their day thinking about what they hate. They are always telling you about something they dislike: this food, that subject, this political party, that coworker.
You are more than your frustrations. Build your identity around what you love."
If it takes three to five years for a project to gain traction, it probably doesn’t pay to start a project that the world knows it needs right now.
The challenge is picking something the world will need then. And the hard part is patiently and persistently sticking with it despite the fact that it’s not on everyone’s
... See moreIn just under one generation, we moved from appreciating albums as cohesive works to consuming individual tracks, and then to music becoming reduced to muzak: background noise for gaming, viral videos, or endless scrolling. Disappearing is music as an art in its own right, which commands sustained attention and deep engagement. A song’s success is... See more
Default Friend • No, Culture is Not Stuck
TAKE STEPS TO ACHIEVE EXCELLENCE Here are 14 guideposts to step up your game: Raise the bar. Don’t settle for mediocrity. Be the best you can be…and then be a little better. Be your toughest critic. Before challenging others, challenge yourself. If you’re not proud, you’re not done. Be proactive. Don’t wait for a complaint to act. If you see
... See moreFrank Sonnenberg • Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
Sam Harris once said, about smoking weed, that everyone he knows who smokes weed would benefit from smoking less, and everyone he knows who doesn’t smoke weed would benefit from smoking more. I feel the same way about the pursuit of self-knowledge. If you’ve never looked within, you should probably start. But if you look within all the time, maybe... See more
max nuss • The False Promise of Understanding Yourself
When Shohei Ohtani was a high school freshman, he created a detailed "dream sheet" with one central goal: to be the #1 draft pick for 8 NPB (Nippon Professional Baseball) teams.
It was a 64-cell roadmap based on a framework called the Harada Method.
Here's exactly what Shohei did... See more