People mistake “good enough” for NOT good enough and people mistake NOT good enough for good enough A thing has attributes If you need something for its particular attribute — all things that have that attribute are good enough Optionality however, the extra potential utility — doesn’t make it better now — but …
Category: Lifestyle
Vice Spreads and Corrupts The Rest
I once wrote: Weakness Transcends the Weak and Corrupts the Whole I was too narrow. I should have written: “Vice spreads and corrupts the rest” or maybe simply: “Corruption spreads” See there are two paths: 1) You’re already mediocre and complacent, and complacently let yourself gradually sour, corrupt, rot 2) You’re doing quite …
Think Big and Give Up are Not in Contradiction
Similar idea is explored here: The World as Paradise and Great Disappointment consider this a more practical extension going after what you want striving trying things exploring evolving are obviously good What does good even mean here? Selfishly, solipsistically, they make you happy They make you thrive, before you die We don’t have …
The Software and Hardware of Mind
There’s a computational theory of mind Maybe it’s right maybe it’s wrong It’s cute, philosophically But isn’t it profound practically? Your results are downstream from your actions, which are downstream from your mind Isn’t your mind quite like a computer? We speculated about our nature since time immemorial But aren’t computers some of …
Reset Your Life by Asking What You Love
I surely wrote about it a rather immature piece before, but there is truth in some simplicity You really should reset your fucking mind, life, goals, attitudes, every now and then By asking yourself “WHAT I LOVE” and then either doing it immediately, or asking what STEPS are necessary to take, then taking those …
Sloppy Details Ruin Entire Thing, Life Most of All
Life is composed of details so does everything, of course (whole comprises of parts), but LIFE is much more about the details, because LIFE is lived IN THE MOMENT i.e. life experience is IN THE MOMENT, not in abstract (so you can have the most glorious life story, the most glorious “life outcome” …
Why Do You Get Drunk and Dumb?
Why do you get drunk / high? And why, as a result, you become an even dumber cunt? So there’s the gain to be derived, One would be the good emotion that it brings Another could be the liberation from inhibition Inhibitions of course exist for a reason At the extreme: having “no …
Is It About The Journey?
Let’s be nihilistic and assume that all that you will have acquired, built, developed — is inevitably going to shit Because you die, because those that inherit it will die too, and because those that come afterwards won’t give a shit, your contribution will have became a drop in the ocean, finite you vs infinite …
Everything Aligning is NOT Happiness
Things going well is your misguided concept of happiness It satisfies the rapacious, quantifiable, scorecard idea of success It also aligns with those rare memories when all things went so well — and for a moment you felt so happy Except it’s misleading Happiness is the natural state It can be ruined, yes …
Real vs Fake vs Drunk and Repugnant
Being NOT real (fake) is disgusting because: -then you’re IMPOSSIBLE to be trusted. you’re unknown (real you is unknown) -and unknown comprises both good and bad. -and the bad is not worth risking, if you can have the good instead, from someone else +It also reeks of incompetence and worthlessness. Otherwise you wouldn’t try to …