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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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

Tattoo Ideas

Another day dragged on into sleepless nights
I wish I knew no stars when the sky grows dark
Each one a reminder of all that we are (All that we are)
And how it fell apart

Monument to every meaningless goodbye
And a purpose I have yet to find
A pale light lingers no matter where I hide
Are you ready for truth and pain to be the same?

The difference between

Lyrics and

You should keep a developer’s journal - Stack Overflow

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Programming

Note to self for maintaining direction and a chronology

come. The resulting marriage penalty discourages marriage and rewards single parenthood. Combined marriage penalties across federal and state welfare programs can reach tens of thousands of dollars per year for a given family. One component of the marriage penalties comes from state-level free or subsidized preschool programs. In addition

Benjamin Paris • How Welfare Programs Discourage Marriage: The Case of Pre-K Education Subsidies

Politics

This is absolute garbage. If you search “marriage penalties and federal welfare programs”—which is in their Project 2025, this trash is the first result.

Colin Richardson

Colin Richardson en.wikipedia.org

Apparently mixed All Hope Is Gone.

Motivation

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

I think productivity is really a race to the bottom um it's I think that the that a lot has been said about how humans uh or machines are trying to be more human but I think less has been said about how humans have for decades uh been trained to be machines

and we have a lot of unlearning to do because if we focus on efficiency and optimization and

Sublime • How I Build My Personal Knowledge Library W Sari Azout

Productivity

Another important point about not just our cultural obsession with these vague notions of achieving great productivity and efficiency: these sorts of things move us further from our unique human nature and closer towards that of sorting machines.

This applies to PKMS design as well: If you are spending more time doing the robot part of the work instead of learning or applying, the application is not helping you. IT’S DISTRACTING YOU.

Motivation and Humor

1000 IQ crippling self-doubt ENGAGED.