Bhargav Varshney
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Bhargav Varshney
the depth of a conversation depends on how deeply seen you feel, not on the topic of conversation
Abstract Fairyx.com
We thought we were just having fun times with devices; it turns out we were spreading nuclear waste over the entire surface of the earth. Piling up heaps of radioactive slag inside our homes. Smearing it over our faces at night. And then a generation was born into that poisoned world; we got to watch them take shape, and it became obvious how... See more
Too many people think freedom is the ability to do anything you want, instead of the discipline to not be a slave to your compulsions.
Ayishat Akanbix.comI care, in the end, about expressing my obdurate singularity at any cost.
Wesley Yang • What Happens to All the Asian-American Overachievers When the Test-Taking Ends? -- New York Magazine - Nymag
It all comes back. Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one’s self back in that kind of mood, but I do see it; I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m... See more
Joan Didion • On Keeping A Notebook
9 Life Lessons by Tim Minchin
You don’t have to have a dream. Be micro-ambitious, work with pride on whatever is in front of you. Be careful on long term dreams, if you focus too far in front of you, you won’t see the shiny thing out the corner of your eye.
Don’t seek happiness. Keep busy and aim to make someone else happy and you might find you get
With sufficient care, that wheelbarrow full of things could become an entire system of meaning, saying truthful things about our world, some of which might have been impossible to say via a more conventionally realistic approach. That system would mean, not by the plausibility or acuity of its initial premise, but by the way it reacts to that
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