You don’t know the “IMPROVEMENT” You think you know, but you don’t There’s not much you know BEFORE YOU TRIED IT, TESTED IT Few things are knowable a priori And the more complex the matter — the more testing it requires The greater the scale — the more testing it requires, And some matters …
Tag: Society
Mockery is Easy (Mockery is a COPE)
Mocking is easy Mockery is even easier than criticism Criticism is already easy: find some fault, focus on it, blow it out of proportions, EASY Sounding smart is easy, being convincing is easy, But mockery is REALLY easy, because ANYTHING can be mocked, Stupid shit and wrong shit can of course be mocked, but even …
MORE DISCRIMINATING = MORE LOVING
When you’re more discriminating you can be more loving Do you know why you get mad at people? You get MAD so that you can DO something, CHANGE something You get mad, you get upset, you grow discontented, you get worried, you get anxious — all of that so that you can DO something, …
BALANCE SHEET OF THE RELATIONSHIP
There’s a BALANCE SHEET in every relationship — it records the VALUE YOU GAVE, and the VALUE YOU RECEIVED. You ALWAYS want to have GIVEN MORE than you received. You want to have GIVEN MORE than you received. And you want that to be recognized by BOTH SIDES. Because VALUE in a RELATIONSHIP is …
To Not Be Cynical in the Age of the Internet
EVERYTHING is on the internet today. You can see everything, learning everything. You don’t have to search for knowledge. knowledge finds you. You don’t have to search for experts. experts find you. The barrier of entry has been reduced to 0. Do you know what’s the last barrier of entry? Actually DOING something. Actually testing. …
To Not Discriminate Is To Discriminate
To NOT discriminate is to DISCRIMINATE. More precisely: to NOT discriminate fairly — is to discriminate either randomly or unfairly Discriminating unfairly is obviously unfair. And discriminating randomly is more fair than discriminating unfairly — but less fair than discriminating fairly. Let’s say you are an employee and you want a computer program written. …
Desperate to Feel That You’re “Good”
We want to feel that we’re “good”, We want to believe in something We want someone or something to lead us Used to be god to tell us what is right and wrong Priest telling us what to believe in Telling us what to do Used to be god or priest or your “love …
How to Talk to Someone (Listen and Speak, ACTUALLY)
TALKING TO SOMEONE IS: -You LEARNING from me and/or me learning from you -YOU experiencing me and/or me experiencing you FUCK “listening”: You know whose the best “listener”? A fucking tree. The TRUE art of listening is UNDERSTANDING what other person is saying — and RELATING to it. RELATING which means COMMUNICATING your UNDERSTANDING …
I’m a Classist
I’m a classist I think man of higher class are superior to man of lower class It’s not the property of belonging to a class which makes them superior — it’s belonging to a class which causes, or caused them to become superior, be superior I.e. belonging to higher class pushes, or pushed them to …
HALF-LEADERS
You can’t be a half-leader. A half-leader can’t lead you. The job of the leader is making decisions. The job of the follower is following. If the follower doesn’t intend to follow — then he’s not a follower. The two of you can create a different kind of relationship: but it is not a …