Kasturi Kiri

Computer Science in the 1960s to 80s spent a lot of effort making languages which were as powerful as possible. Nowadays we have to appreciate the reasons for picking not the most powerful solution but the least powerful. The reason for this is that the less powerful the language, the more you can do with the data stored in that language . If you... See more

Most of the time, “What should I do with my life?” is a terrible question. “What should I do with this tennis serve?” “What should I do with this line at Starbucks?” “What should I do with this traffic jam?” “How should I respond to the anger I feel welling up in my chest?” These are better questions. Excellence is the next five minutes,

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Once the search is in progress, something will be found . It’s a strategy for finishing, a strategy for trusting in my ability to complete a work.

Links are the “checkpoints” of your thinking process.

Remember that moment when you had a trail of thoughts and someone asked you a question? That train is good as gone, right?

Links allow you to store this “train” and continue it indefinitely later.

Also, the big benefit of these links is that your working memory becomes free to focus on developing... See more

I have only one more idea left.. but perhaps 40, 45 years to live.. I need to spread it very finely... like buttering a star —

[Persistent self-love]...is not the feeling that I am awesome all the time. Instead, it is the total banishment of self-loathing. It is the deactivation of the part of my mind that used to attack itself...It’s the sense that, while I might fuck up, my basic worth is beyond question—I have no essential damage, I am not polluted, I am fine.