"Mix up your entertainment. If you play games all of the time, go see a play. If you're always out with your friends, read a book. Stimulate your brain with variety."—GeneralReposti_Bot, "TL;DR: How to be An Attractive Man." Reddit.com/r/selfimprovement. October 3, 2019. Good advice throughout.
Tag: life lessons
The Waiter Rule
"If you want to know what someone is really like, don’t look at how they act around their friends or family or coworkers; see how they act around people when there’s no expectation they’ll treat those people well."
Scratch: Hip Hop Turntablism Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I3CovIKJWE The important thing to remember is that this basement isn’t packed with treasure. It’s packed with junk. You have to spend the time to sort through the junk to find the treasure. There is no shortcut. There is no algorithm. There is only time, attention, noticing — digging...I like to try to apply this spirit … Continue reading Scratch: Hip Hop Turntablism Documentary
6 Reasons We Choose Badly in Love – The Book of Life
"The fastest, easiest and most inadvertent technique for messing up one’s life remains that of getting into a serious relationship with the wrong person: with very little effort, and without any innate taste for catastrophe, one can end up – by middle age or earlier – contemplating wholesale financial ruin, loss of parental rights, social … Continue reading 6 Reasons We Choose Badly in Love – The Book of Life
The Work of the Three Minds
"We have three minds, I reckon, one of which is the body, while the other two are forms of mentation: daylight consciousness and dreaming consciousness. If one of these is absent from a work, it isn’t complete; and if one or two of them are suppressed, kept out of sight, then the whole thing — … Continue reading The Work of the Three Minds
Charlie Munger USC Law Commencement Speech
What Advice Would You Give Your Younger Self? | A Cup of Jo
"'Date the one who makes you laugh. Who makes you think. Who introduces you to your favorite new things. Date the one who listens. Who makes you feel like you are home. And the first and foremost quality in a boyfriend or girlfriend is that he or she likes you back.'— Lisa Rubisch" —Caroline Donofrio, … Continue reading What Advice Would You Give Your Younger Self? | A Cup of Jo
88 Important Truths I’ve Learned About Life
"30. The most common addiction in the world is the draw of comfort. It wrecks dreams and breaks people." —"88 Important Truths I’ve Learned About Life." Raptitude.com. July 2009. Useful, if only because you're going to disagree with some of these "important truths".
OpenBSD’s Guide to Netiquette
The OpenBSD's mailing list page netiquette section is excellent. It is a distillation of how to communicate online, i.e.: Plain text, 72 characters per line [or simplest formatting available]Do your homework before writingInclude a useful subject line [or headline]Trim your signatureStay on topicInclude important informationRespect differences in opinion and philosophy Using only plain text is … Continue reading OpenBSD’s Guide to Netiquette
Hiker, There is No Road
"Caminante, no hay camino. Pero el camino se hace al andar." [Using Google Translate to roughly translate into English: "Hiker, there is no road. But, the road is made by walking it.]...The way is in not out......search through your memory, your childhood, your dreams, your passions, your failures, your sorrows, your wildest hallucinations, your most … Continue reading Hiker, There is No Road
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