Matthew Sparks

@sparksm

BS Behavioral Neuroscience: addiction and addiction treatment armchair-expert with a past toxic relationship with opioids. Aspiring terminal degree holder. Lifelong musician, metalhead, tech nerd and PC gamer, and open-mic night standup comic. Accidentally blew up on YouTube for screaming in my car.

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Our debut full length album “Highly Irresponsible” is out October 25th through @sharptonerecs The first single “A White Horse Covered In Blood” is out everywhere tomorrow, July 31st. For early access to pre-orders head to highlyirresponsible.com, sign up and check your... See more

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Music and Metal

YO THIS SHIT IS GONNA BOP SO HARD, WILL PUTNEY IS A GENIUS ONGOD FRFR

There is no more intoxicating fantasy than to feel extraordinary

I make a mentor out of every man that I meet
A lover out of every person I pass in the street

Impactful Writing, Lyrics, etc.

Knowing is not enough. Knowing too much can encourage us to procrastinate. There's a certain point when continuing to know at the expense of doing allows the mess to grow further

Abby Covert • How to Make Sense of Any Mess

Thought provoking

This is a mess I have both birthed and been consumed by, and now I am watching it consume others from the other side of the fence. They’re too defensive to be heard, but I keep the Faith that they will figure it out. Unfortunately, it’s just a matter of waiting.

Tattoo Ideas

If you consider yourself a technologist, here’s your imperative: build things that are unabashedly, beautifully tangled into all else in life — people and relationships, politics, emotion and pain, understanding or the lack thereof, being alone, being together, homesickness, adventure, victory, loss. Build things that come alive, and drag... See more

Create things that come alive

Awesome Quotes and Impactful Writing, Lyrics, etc.

Technology can be art; an application can evoke and represent emotion; I can sound like a wanker waxing poetic about the JavaScript I’m writing right now

Motivation

The only way to lose is not to act.
The only wrong decision is to not do something.

You should keep a developer’s journal - Stack Overflow

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Programming

Note to self for maintaining direction and a chronology

Tattoo Ideas

Not Everyone Has an Inner Voice: Behavioral Consequences of Anendophasia

Anendophasia, or a lack of inner speech, is investigated through behavioral tasks, finding that individuals with lower inner speech levels struggle with certain tasks but use compensatory strategies.

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Academic Papers and

This is a fascinating paper about people who experience no inner dialogue and the kind of effects traversing through life without one can or might have on someone, as well as how people adapt to this unusual difference between them and the rest of the population