quotes and things i think about

The best you can do is (to) try your best

“Care what other people think and you will always be their prisoner” - Lao Tzu

“I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which has never happened” - Mark Twain

You cannot become happy, you can only be happy. Sam Harris

We’re not trying to end crime, we’re trying to punish crime.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. - George R. R. Martin

Instagram is ideally realistic, but realistically ideal

“You can’t dance and be uptight” - dancing in the moonlight, toploader

X (love, compliments, etc) that is readily available is inherently lest valuable

The reduction of politics to style (eg rainbow clothes) implies that consumption can amount to political change.

The people who are afraid to be seen admiring someone with talent are envious narcissists

No bell rings when science succeeds

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." — Ernest Hemingway

Free is a very attractive price

When you dedicate your life to knowing your entire life story well instead of actually living it

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ― Leo Tolstoy

uneasy lies the head that wears the crown Shakespeare

No one ever travels so high as he who knows not where he is going Cromwell

This is why persistence is so important. The more times you try, the more chances you have at getting high enough luck.

Everything will be fine in the end, if it's not fine then it's not the end. Oscar Wilde

In the pursuit of great we failed to do good Viktor; Arcane

The version of the world you are seeing is invisible to the people who misunderstand you Jaron Lanier p83

The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced -Andrew Carnegie; Gospel of Wealth

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention Herbert Simon

Perception is Reality.

I hate you Richard Wagner, I hate you on my knees Leonard Cohen

Don’t read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly Basil Dorman, David Buss

I have my female founder fancy story but life is not the same Wiz.ai

The grass is always greener on the side that’s fertilized with bullshit Morgan Housel

The grass is greener where you water it

Arrogance is ego + ignorance Rich Dad, Poor Dad pg 208

Everything that irritates us about others can lead to and understanding of ourselves Carl Jung

Learn modesty if you desire knowledge, A high land would never be irrigated Pourya-ye Vali (Khiva Khan)

We sacrifice the thing we want for the thing that’s supposed to get it. (Happiness for Success)

Order is the precondition for freedom Lex & Jordan Peterson

Live on behalf of all those who weren’t so lucky A dream (🚂💥)

You lose weight in the kitchen. You get fit in a gym.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. Arthur Schopenhauer

“Theologians of the world quarrel, but the mystics of the world agree.” Eckhart Tolle

Failure is not your enemy. Your fears are. Miraculous Movie - cried 3 rimes

The eternal feminine lures to perfection Faust || Good <> Beautiful <> True

Don’t strive for rest. Strive to rest in striving.

The Blob & The Will are ever hungry, compounding and iterative. There is no rest. ~Schop

Life is worth living for the moments you want to abide Nietzche Eternal Reborn

“If we have our own why in life, we shall get along with almost any how.” Nietzche Twilight of the Idols

Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation

The highs are never as high as you’d think, the lows never as low as you feel Andres (Sanas)’s customer

In the end, we will not rmbr the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends Martin Luther King Jr

But in truth, if one ffrom Asia should ask me what Europe is, I would have to reply: it is the continent utterly possesed by the unheard-of and the incredible delusion that the birth of man is his absolute beginning and that he is created out of nothing -Arthur Schopenhaur

The infinite distance between body and mind is a symbol of the infinitely more infinite distance between mind and charity; for charity is supernatural. -Pascal

Those who think they’re lucky are more receptive to opportunities because they think it will bring them positive benefits. Due to their inclination to be more open minded, approachable and positive, more people/opportunities make themselves apparent. The negative, “my life sucks”, closed-off attitude will do the opposite.

Everything comes and goes. Wabi-Sabi, Japanese asceticism, Dao, etc. Creativity is the capacity to expand and retract into the Flow and then tunnel vision onto it. You can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it.

Meditation teaches to watch the clouds of thought/existence pass, evaluate their merit, and tone the muscle of spotlight refocusing.

Gift things that ppl are reminded by you about. Watering a plant every day, or putting on a watch, everyday-things

I can’t tell you about it. If you can’t see it then you’ll just never know. [original](https://www.instagram.com/reel/CoWRFKZjMRS/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=)

The great flood is referenced in the Bible and elsewhere is just an account of the widespread flooding consistent in many places and perhaps once more pronounce other times consistently occurring during the post Ice Age epoch 15,000 years ago. Then the traditions of ancient civilization passed down oral stories of, such floods that created a narrative of the floods.

The surgeon has a chance to learn new things every day and everyday he learns that he is in control and that he can perform difficult tasks. The laborer is forced to repeat the same exhausting motions, and what he learns is mostly about his own helplessness.

"Nothing in excess" also means do an excess of nothing - applies to asceticism, meditation, sleep

7 chakra uses a different breath in to unlock one by one. Physiological double/7 inhale

What do the automatic subconscious physiological feelings of yawning, sneezing, goosebumps, orgasm, shivers, deep camaraderie etc do?

How many people die of preventable deaths every year? For example, those that die from a preventable better allocation of food, shelter, water, etc. or those that die from a upgrade or renewal of materials that have expired like the chains on as a plane or the bolts in an elevator, etc.

In college one day, I was playing tennis with Omar, the head of the data, science masters, and a mathematician professor Gerald cornuejols, and I was very high. I came to the session with the intention to be social and play casually. However, they did not share the same opinion. My opponents took advantage of the fact that I was in playing super fervently, and as a result, we were down a pretty significant deficit 3-0 or 3-1 with them to serve. All of a sudden a certain grit appeared within me. It came out of a tearful, but honest passion. Similar to the lash out that Jacob, Gruza had when we did psychedelics on Beeler Street. it was primordial. A sense of passionate obligation to deliver and all of a sudden with power my back turned to the wall. I lashed out in the game and we were on the verge of tired at five Sets. The lesson I learned, though, is that you can put in 1000% of the effort, but when the moment comes, and the moment will come, it may be up to the hands of someone else, or your teammate. When my teammate, Omar just barely missed the court with an easy shot that could’ve tipped the momentum into our favor, he was devastated, and I was too. However, when he turned to me to apologize for that moment, and then again, after the game, I humbly said oh, it doesn’t matter. I’m over it. and since then I have felt a certain peace and resolve about taking a moral highroad on the way I was exploited, had the potential to overcome the opponents, and when my teammate couldn’t deliver, still feel like I had a victory.

It is now clear to me, how daunting the struggle of life is. It’s a grueling, brumous, unforgiving fight. Sink or swim, every day is what you make of it. There is no clear path, you forge it yourself, uncertain which next step may hit a landmine or goldmine. Nonetheless we push forward. Conscious, acutely aware, occasionally reflecting on one’s path so far and the orientation for the next stage. But it’ll never get easier – only lonelier. Surround yourself with the people you can trust and will help you get back on your feet – as you’d do for them.

Achieved through honing your taste palette by trying many different flavors to find the food you consistently enjoy. Same thing with blonde/brunettes, same thing with work industries and fiscal/religious/social philosophies and frameworks.

AI can recreate image from EEG signals, can hook to VR to unfold game space in real time (psychedelic?)

Henna tattoos and Ryze runic scripts written on self come from psychedelic perception https://youtu.be/3BxiYkCPZwI 7:07

The devil will reason you to death PIL Dostoyevsky

Can atheist love brotherhood? Or presupposes strawman God. No good answer. Only that transcendental ocean of karmic love requires immortal soul and legal group

The glory of history’s best kingdoms came from organic and respectful occupation rather than stripping rights (Persia, ottoman, Alexander) Ray Dalio to 🇨🇳 VP Zh-

Celebrities & idols represent the cultural zeitgeist of a generation. They act out the qualities others secretly envy as “ideal”. Do not take these trends and face value, but look for the underlying spirit, the unconscious attraction towards certain values or ideals that they reveal. The laws of human nature, Greene

We don't stop playing because we get old - we get old because we stop playing

What would some with no previous conception of music play on the piano?

It’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it

What's the most important mistake you've made so far in life?

We will leave more phones than bones

Mathematics is the domain of all formal languages, i.e. all possible specifications. Computation is the domain of all possible implementations. To exist is to be implemented

Is Enlightenment a Brain-State?

a classroom poster that i read in school: 30 years from now, it won't matter what shoes you wore, how your hair looked, or the jeans you bought. What will matter is what you learned and how you used it.

Behavioral Choice - instead of accepting our “thoughts” blindly as direction, CHOOSE our own subjective perspective of how to feel. Feel determines behavior (92-93%). Respond how they want, not react defensively in fight/flight/freeze

Say thank you (for) instead of sorry (for)

First fix emotion; understand their frustration; sympathize and apologize for the problem theyre dealing with- empathy. THEN fix the problem. Don’t just provide the problem without acknowledging

Would some birds fly just for the sensation of soaring thru air, or is it only with a destination in mind (prey, predator, shelter, migration, etc)

Paris is becoming the new Florence, beautiful but outdated and incompatible with modern speeds

The reduction of politics to style (eg rainbow clothes) implies that consumption can amount to political change.

The people who are afraid to be seen admiring someone with talent are envious narcissists

X (love, compliments, etc) that is readily available is inherently lest valuable

automation would be nice since it would get rid of all the tedious jobs allowing us to focus on creativity and thought. But... what if those tedious jobs are the only source of work for people with below average IQ? Maybe the jobs aren't tedious to those people. Hmmm.

Burn down my buildings and give me my people, and we will rebuild the company in a year. But leave my buildings and take away my people . . . and I’ll have a real problem.”

If we’re supposed to wash for 20 seconds why does the push sink water only last <10?

“Don’t tell what you’d like to do next, tell me what you can’t do next” -Danson

“Don’t wait for me to move forward, tell me when u can’t go further” -Danson

What are the long term effects of boys waking up <1hr before a task and girls >1hr? Are girls more prepared/planners

“Born to command” Margaret Thatcher , King Andrew 1, King David. Is a mentality I’ve been told I am destined to be a leader. I am playing chess watching this during the 20h news, and she is playing chess in the show as well.

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. Where the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about." -Rumi

be patient, even a toilet can handle only one asshole at a time

The best way to get a man to do something is to suggest he’s too old for it.

We should be looking less to see what is the 0->60 for cars, but instead the 60->0 for safety.

Be here now. But my dog lives in the moment. We are capable of future planning.

How much does it cost to be the first pizza/dog shampoo company recommended by Alexa? Google?

What is the significance of the objects of focus in our dreams? Wittgenstein, Freud (wrong), inception? What is the foremost research saying rn

If urine/poop gets released by a latch in the plane to be dissolved in air, could we potentially have shit fall from the sky?

Thinking is inherently logical. The verification of the logic comes through the process of validating its True-ness with reality. The way to do this is through communication of a picture, verbal, written or other. However, language is flawed, although you may think you’re communicating the Truth, others can interpret something else.

Empirical verification looks for the causal relationship behind something. Why does water boil? Because heat caused it so. Why did you fall down the stairs? Because I pushed you. But the cause is not the meaning. It is not the True reason an event happened. Wittgenstein example: I take you, cook you in an over at 2000 degrees, and a few hours later I take you out. A pile of ashes in a bucket. I have. In my bucket. Reduced to the essential parts. But you can’t reduce to parts and retain same meaning.

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Why don’t we sneeze while in flow? How come there is never a sneeze in live music or sports?

What happens when animals are endangered must resort to inbreeding? Are we mutilating a species?

Is the majority of ocean sailing calm? Unlike the films with large wave crashes, can a sailor avoid a storm altogether by just veering off to one side when in view on the horizon? How was it done in the older days without geospatial radar and compass cartography

I’m not writing to try and convince people who don’t like what I do I’m writing for the people that would have liked it anyway

This moment is the only moment in your life that is … your life. This is the only moment that stands a chance of being real. Everything else is just something you’re thinking about. We must resolve to fully connect here… now.

"The ego-climber is like an instrument that's out of adjustment. He puts his foot down an instant too soon or too late. He's likely to miss a beautiful passage of sunlight through the trees. He goes on when the sloppiness of his step shows he's tired. He rests at odd times. He looks up the trail trying to see what's ahead even when he knows what's ahead because he just looked a second before. He goes too fast or too slow for the conditions and when he talks his talk is forever about somewhere else, something else. He's here but he's not here. He rejects the here, is unhappy with it, wants to be farther up the trail but when he gets there will be just as unhappy because then it will be "here." What he's looking for, what he wants, is all around him, but he doesn't want that because it's all around him. Every step's an effort, both physically and spiritually, because he imagines his goal to be external and distant." Robert M. Pirsig

civilization took its start from the day that the capable, industrious workman said to his incompetent and lazy fellow, "If thou dost net sow, thou shalt net reap," and thus ended primitive Communism by separating the drones from the bees -Andrew Carnegie; Gospel of Wealth

Just because something makes sense, doesn’t mean it’s true. Rationale ≠ Empirical truth

With the frontier of data and tools of observation one must show they can validate their theory before proposing it.

No one will care for your things more than you do. You set the tone for what is the level of care other people should adhere to, and you can expect everyone to <= that (e.g. homeownership)

Bleeding edge stuff happens with edge case (terminal illness, olympic sports, nerds on weekends, etc), then academic literature, then billionaires, rich ppl, then regulation, then the rest of us Tim Ferris on huberman ~19min

If you want to see infinity, close your eyes.

Neil Postman once pointed out that the invention of the mechanical clock had defeated the all encompassing supremacy of god more than any enlightenment thinker, as the clock turned us from time keepers, to time savers, to time servants. The clock introduced a new reality of the world as a system of abstract mathematical units that one could observe from a distance, where entirely new manners of human thought were able to develop, as humans no longer had to rely entirely on the seasons, weather patterns, and the position of the sun itself to arrange their social and political institutions.

Avatar is the movie personification of a girl so hot she never developed a personality

Invite people to share their good ideas, and listen. Rather than force ppl to abide by your good ideas. Best way to grow it to attract talent and creative, supportive suggestions by talented people.

Celebrities are the physical representation of an explosion in cultural zeitgeist (Ryan Reynolds - Nice Guy, Nicki Minaj - Miami, Napoleon - old france (king of kings)

S/He who can reconcile syncretic ideas at inflection points, rather than buckle in and incertitude is fit to command

Why do I press the buttons harder when I’m mad

Do lions know squids exist

Do babies have accents

Why is water clear

What color is a mirror

Why can I smell a color

Why does someone “look like a Chad”/Karen

If u know someone’s hourly wage u can “buy” an hour of their time and invite them to dinner

5<21 senses. Sense of balance, temperature etc

Saying there’s no aliens out there is like filing up a cup from the ocean and saying there are no whales in the ocean

Why do the good ones die first? When you go into a field, which flowers do you pick out first? The prettiest ones.

How much of our life experiences are predestined by genetics

Parents and old people are just as young an immature as us. They just filter out bad ideas quicker due to their bad experiences

What happens after death/before life? If consciousness exists as a Tv frequency in the brain, where does the signal go once the brain/TV box dies?

I asked what’s her name and she said what does it matter to you

Name a color without the letter E in it

There is no such thing as stupid dreams, only stupid people who don’t follow their dreams

If my kids wants a pet I’ll tell them if they can take care of a fish for 30 days, then they can have one. But I’ll make sure to buy one that only lives like 10 days.

Can a wheelchair comedian do stand up

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift, that’s why we call it the present

Sometimes it is better to be happy than right. Don’t wanna be happy, wanna be famous. Getting through answer might not cause happiness.

If you kill a killer, the number of killers in the world stay the same (unless you kill two)

The best way to get an answer is to say the wrong thing. People are so quick to correct.

It’s only a loss if you sell the stock

Threw a boomerang 6 years ago and it never came back so now I live in constant fear

The sentence “don’t objectify women” has women as the object of the sentence

I always have to squeeze between a person and a bike when walking down the side walk. Like the point where I would pass the person is always the tightest squeeze

People are stupid, a person is smart. 1500yrs should people thought the earth was the center of the universe, 500 years ago they thought it was flat. One smart person can reshape the dumb people

Beauty is on the inside but so is your colon and that’s packed with crap

Measuring pain with nanotechnology, rather diagnosing pain from a subjective opinion

Heart rate slowed down/more physically sensitive, even though at a low rate per minute. Meaning you can more accurately sense at a millisecond speed. Time slows down when on w

Creat vr environment where your machine is so big it’s like the entire planet size to protect you from objects you see at normal size, but it needs to see at eye level, which is operated by you in a microscopic size

Why is the moon is exactly the size of the sun during solar eclipse

TIL it takes the same number of the smallest thing in the universe (plaunk length) to make up a brain cell as the number of brain cells to stretch the entire observable universe

The creative act is not an act of creation in the sense of the Old Testament. It does not create something out of noting; it uncovers, selects, re-shuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, skills. The more familiar the parts, the more striking the new whole.  Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation

invention or discovery, be it in mathematics or anywhere else, takes place by combining ideas....The Latin verb cogito for "to think" etymologically means "to shake together". St. Augustine had already noticed that and also observed that intelligo means "to select among"

You are either in a relationship for the long term or you got out too late and learned a lesson Adeen

Citing Huxley’s warning in Brave New World about our “almost infinite appetite for distractions,” Postman writes, “People will come to love their oppressions, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” “Amusing Ourselves to Death.” Neil Postman (1985)

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. Lewis Carroll

The technology for the fax machine was invented in 1843. The feudal era in Japan ended in 1868 abolishing the samurai class. Abraham Lincoln lived until 1865. This means that there was a 22-year period in which Lincoln could have received a fax from a samurai.

Mount Everest isn’t actually the tallest mountain on Earth at 4.6km. Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa in Hawaii are taller at 10.2km, but since 6km of their height is submerged underwater, they only appear to be 4.2km tall.

The eruption of Mount Krakatoa in 1883 was the loudest sound ever recorded. It was heard over 3,000 miles away, which would be the equivalent of an explosion in New York being heard in Los Angeles.

If you stand at the base of the clock tower in London commonly called Big Ben with a digital radio tuned to the BBC, you'll hear the sound of the bell striking the hour via the radio before you hear it live. This is because sound travels faster digitally from the microphone in the tower to the BBC studio to their transmitter to your radio than it does analogically from the bell to you.

the path to agi is responsible iterativle deployment (soceital adaption) - sama <- bret taylor

From 1965 to 1995, the typical adult gained 6 weekly hours in leisure time. They funneled almost all of it into one activitiy: watching TV