nico λ
@nicomeemes
just a hacker tryna survive
nico λ
nicomee.com
Myself and people my age have been trained under the illusion that we can effectively eliminate any and all friction from our lives. We can work from home, Amazon prime everything we need, swipe through a limitless array of mediocre dates, text our therapist, and have a person go to the grocery store for us when we don’t feel like it, all while... See more
Rosie Spinks • The Friendship Problem
16. The truth of anything is multidimensional and impossible to fully grasp. So a better question than “Is this true?” is “In what scenario is this true?”
Julie Zhuox.comMastery is the best goal because the rich can't buy it, the impatient can't rush it, the privileged can't inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work.
― Derek Sivers
This is arguably the most foundational principle of productivity. Make fast decisions with limited certainty.
Daniel Kazandjian • Minimum Viable Productivity
There have been a number of studies that survey overdose deaths across the country, but in particular, a study from NYU which compared Oregon's rates of overdose fatalities to data from states that didn't have decriminalization initiatives. What they found is that there was not any statistically meaningful difference between deaths in Oregon and... See more
Drug recriminalization in Oregon: 5 Questions for attorney Jon Dennis
I usually think of contrarianism as being wrong most of the time but helping on the margin because it brings light to positions that are underrated due to social conformity factors. I think most meta-contrarians would admit that they’re wrong most of the time. It would be quite silly to take the meta contrarian point and think you are right most of... See more
Bentham's Bulldog • Losing Faith In Contrarianism
We have to give up. You surrender to the reality that things just take the time they take, and that you can’t quiet your anxieties by working faster, because it isn’t within your power to force reality’s pace as much as you feel you need to, and because the faster you go, the faster you’ll feel you need to go. If you can let those fantasies... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
We in the West are used to thinking of the mind and the body as separate. But a burgeoning field called “embodied cognition” is demonstrating that thinking is actually a full-body experience.
Annie Murphy Paul • The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
Why Strauss thinks something “critical” is lost
1. Moral content is emptied out. If the law is only a fence around private desires, it cannot speak authoritatively about better or worse ways of living.
2. Civic virtue withers. Citizens are turned into clients of the sovereign, focused on individual gain, not on common deliberation.
3. Natural right is... See more
1. Moral content is emptied out. If the law is only a fence around private desires, it cannot speak authoritatively about better or worse ways of living.
2. Civic virtue withers. Citizens are turned into clients of the sovereign, focused on individual gain, not on common deliberation.
3. Natural right is... See more