#tenets-to-live-by
• About 99% of the time, the right time is right now.
• No one is as impressed with your possessions as you are.
• Dont ever work for someone you dont want to become.
• Cultivate 12 people who love you, because they are worth more than 12 million people who like you.
• Dont keep making the same mistakes; try to make new mistakes.
• If you stop to listen
The Technium • 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
Well, I am turning 47. Today.
I am either 46, 47 or 48 depending on which method or system of ascertaining age, you follow. 46 according to a method of insurance premium calculation (“Age last birthday”), 47 according to reality, and 48 according to the Korean tradition, where a baby is considered one year old at birth, and everyone ages one year on... See more
I am either 46, 47 or 48 depending on which method or system of ascertaining age, you follow. 46 according to a method of insurance premium calculation (“Age last birthday”), 47 according to reality, and 48 according to the Korean tradition, where a baby is considered one year old at birth, and everyone ages one year on... See more
driftmost | rajhesh-panchanadhan • 47
42 reflections on the meaning of life, the universe and everything
mrianleslie.medium.com
“If he who is organized by the divine for spiritual communion, refuse and bury his talent in the earth, even though he should want natural bread, shame and confusion of face will pursue him throughout life to eternity.”
Austin Kleon • You’ll be miserable if you don’t do what you’re supposed to do - Austin Kleon
“There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
Farnam Street • Apprenticeship
Feeling unmotivated? Use "Skinner's Law" to get yourself back on track
bigthink.com
“Fidelity to daily tasks” is Albert Borgmann’s line, quoted in the same post I linked to a few lines up.
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I would like to be paid like a plumber: I do the job and you pay me what it's worth. The record company will expect me to ask for a point or a point and a half. If we assume three million sales, that works out to 400,000 dollars or so. There's no fucking way I would ever take that much money. I wouldn't be able to sleep.