Josh

People think conspiracy theory is a way of thinking, but it's really an argumentation defect where people get greedy with evidence, having to find a route, however ridiculous, from any new phenomenon to a core belief they are invested in defending.

Perhaps it's time we had real brutalist UX - websites that minimize the React cruft, and expose the material of the Web as much as possible, so that there is no room for bad work to hide.

Done properly, this would be a flex just as much as brutalist architecture was a flex for the architects.

John Cleese: “Now I suggest to you that a group of us could be sitting around after dinner, discussing matters that were extremely serious like the education of our children, or our marriages, or the meaning of life, and we could be laughing, and that would not make what we were discussing one bit less serious. Solemnity, on the other hand, I... See more

One of my biggest mental breakthroughs was when I changed my mindset from

"This system is stupid and I'm going to spend all my energy fighting it."

to

"Even though this system is stupid, I'm going to operate within it to my advantage."

Much better results, way less stress.

Even if you work inside the system, you don’t need to let the system work inside of you. And if you summon up the boldness to go in a different direction, others might even surprise you by following along.