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Aphorisms, advice-strings, heuristics, insights, concepts, virtues.

Berkeley, CA
Joined February 2011
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The act of noticing that you're unable to pay attention to something.
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If you're always outraged, you pay too much attention.
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sext: let's understand some math thing while it's autumn and raining outside on the leaves and we're trying hard to enjoy bad coffee
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Generalize. Generalize. Generalize. Generalize. Ok now be more specific.
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in retrospect my months at the youth homeless shelter were some of the least stressful and most informative of my life, kinda wanna return
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"if speed running community played League. 'on the 4th frame if you flash on that frame while amumu casts ult it destroys the enemy nexus.'"
i'm creatine a new subgenre, trapstep. it starts with a drop, and then the drop has a drop, which has a drop.
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fuck it if you own an empty building then not only is it taken, you go to prison and your cell's former tenant moves into it
The war was beautiful. You won. Rest.
Calling attention to one thing as opposed to all other things.
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What phrases have cured you of harmful trains of thought?
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Sometimes when I'm writing Javascript I want to throw up my hands and say "this is bullshit!" but I can never remember what "this" refers to
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The cases where it's better to write for a fictional audience invented for this piece, rather than writing to the audience you have.
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A cassette tape that just repeats somebody's thoughts isn't human. But many humans are cassette tapes repeating their past selves' thoughts.
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the directions people become convinced in isolation
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The moral duty to become terrifyingly formidable
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The instrumental virtue of investing effort where gains will accrue
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Tip: Split your to-do list into small, manageable next actions. Otherwise, you might die with major unfinished business and become a ghost.
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If the accuracy of your process is lower than its precision, you're doing something wrong.