Quality vs quantity is a false dichotomy Quality is a function of quantity. Quantity of trial-and-error. Quantity of iterations. You try things. You produce things. Produce prototypes. Produce sketches. Produce ideas. Some of those are of higher quality. Some are less perfect or less appropriate. But still have some of that quality. Quality vs quantity …
Month: September 2019
One Man’s Pain
If you believe that one man’s pleasure is another man’s pain then you are essentially condemning someone to pain Zero sum games are not even unproductive but destructive Competition is a waste of time and resources We need neither competition nor equal distribution You don’t have to be better then others, not …
Learn to play so that you can learn while you’re playing and create while you’re playing playing is thus much more effective then working — Janus (@JanusFaustus) September 25, 2019
Give Up Hope
You should give up You should literally give up. Give up hope. LET GO of hope. Do you need hope…? Hope has positive connotation in our culture. But is hope positive? Is hope positive? What is hope? What different is hope to desire? Why do you need hope? Doesn’t hope imply becoming? Imply your hope …
Dissipation – Moderation – Safety – Exploration
Sensual desires are nothing in comparison with the psyche’s craving for permanence It’s better to be dissipated then safe Dissipation is futile and vain but at least it’s a genuine try Safety it is ever doomed because there is no safety there is no permanence no escape from death no escape from change …
Be Slower
be slower take your time go deeply and attentively We are always in a rush From the earliest age we’re conditioned to DELIVER on time. Be at school on time. Do the homework on time. Pass the test on time. Be back home on time. We develop serious scarcity mentality in regards to TIME. …
About Truisms
It doesn’t matter it’s a truism if you need to hear it. It’s simple truths which get the results rather then fancy philosophies. Foundations are never too old. Disregarding truisms as unoriginal is pretentious and absurd. Originality has nothing to do with either truth or value. Truisms are disregarded the …
Musings: Letting Go
Not-letting-go brought more suffering then letting-go ever did You may not get where you wanted to get but if you transcend the want in the first place — there is nothing that’s ever forsaken. Oft it’s the unwillingness to let go which keeps us from getting where we want to get, Compulsive need …
Peace always comes before enjoyment, pleasure, entertainment without peace the “positive” is just an escape from the “negative”, while really only being the other side of the coin once you know peace, truly know peace, the joy will follow next, without you provoking it — Janus (@JanusFaustus) September 12, 2019
Perseverance / Stubbornness
When we stumble upon to goldmine at the end of the valley we extol the virtue of PERSEVERANCE When we waste our lives seeking gold which was never there we curse STUBBORNNESS Get over this black-and-white thinking. Be neither stubborn nor persevering but INTELLIGENT instead. Plough on a little bit longer then it seems …