You must set your own rules That’s because YOUR reality is subjective Your rules STILL account for the reality It’s just your subjective reality And much of your subjective reality is OBJECTIVE REALITY Because you interact with the world Any part of the reality you interacted with is objective — and NOW …
Can’t Have Ideals Without Uncompromising Honesty
it doesn’t matter if they meant well it doesn’t matter if they TRIED it doesn’t matter if they ALMOST made it it doesn’t matter if the problem is VENIAL it doesn’t matter if they were “fair to you” hell it doesn’t even matter if YOU’RE NOT the one RESPONSIBLE for …
Professionalism vs Fake Professionalism
As usual: -There’s the thing / the quality / the attribute -And there’s what it looks like First off — anything but professionalism is nonsensical Everything must be done PROPERLY — or not at all Because everything has a designated purpose And that purpose itself has a purpose The whole model is predicated on …
For Every Exciting Thought About the Future Think of an Exciting Today
For every thought about the future Think something exciting about the now Future must be dealt with else you die And future is a glorious creation And creativity is delightful AND creativity happens now Future is an excuse to LIVE (and you can only live now) But of course you can only …
You Can’t Judge Me Too Harshly
You can’t judge me too harshly Because you could never judge me harsher than I already judge myself I am my harshest judge, Because I’m in love with myself I am my harshest judge because I want the BEST for myself Reality doesn’t give a fuck what we think about it And I …
Privacy Is About Not Desecrating What You Hold Dearest
PRIVACY is about NOT DESECRATING what you hold dearest If something is truly PERSONAL And INDIVIDUAL — it naturally isn’t very universal, is it and for that reason — it could hardly be universally understood and therefore could hardly BENEFIT from being universally BROADCASTED It could however be MARRED by that process — …
Ad Hominem That Isn’t, and Ad Hominem You Don’t Recognize
You wouldn’t call someone an “idiot” as an argument Or a “cunt” But you will call others “bad person” Or “evil” Or “greedy” Or whatever else You’ll recognise an obvious ad hominem, and it’s failure to constitute an argument You’ll fail to recognise an obvious ad hominem – when you have been conditioned …
Should You Be Strategically Self-Effacing?
The real humility is epistemic humility You should just be REAL. As confident as warranted by data. No more, no less Reality tempers your confidence. You can be good but you’re never good enough. If life doesn’t humble you — you’re not challenging yourself enough Pretending you’re smaller than you are is …
Virtue Exculpating Ignorance
Who needs to be wise informed, even if they can be VIRTUOUS “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” But this is more insidious than that You fuck up despite your good intention — you still at least learn that you fucked up hopefully, anyway In this case — you are not …
The Courage to Be Ignorant
The main reason we fail to own up our ignorance is the discomfort of not having control the EXISTENTIAL DREAD, truly It’s better to rub a bromide in one’s own face than to face the abyss But the other reason is that we’re so tribal And tribes optimise themselves for homogeneity And no matter …