Quotes
I don't wanna go out anymore. I don't care if everyone thinks I'm a stubborn mutt.
– The King, Earthbound
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- Rational judgements repeat rational judgements.
- Irrational judgements lead to new experience.
The quote is from Sol Lewitt's Sentences on Conceptual Art, in its turn taken from the $3k gopro by Van Neistat.
I realize now that this ability to exist in the economy without a persistent state of anxiety is a privilege. Even more alarming, I realized that many of my peers and colleagues were born into this privilege and have never experienced life outside of it.
However, the economy has also helped me. I will actually be able to retire, and I published a 2nd book. I have traveled the world, and have a large house filled with all kinds of meaningless junk. I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the economy.
– Kris Nova, Why I wrote "Hacking capitalism"
Ask culture expectations #
- Ask for what you want, even if it seems out of reach or like a big unreasonable request
- Take care of your own needs, and others will take care of theirs
- It’s fine to make requests that people will probably say no to
- People say yes to requests that you truly feel good about, say no to ones they don’t
Guess culture expectations #
- Only ask for something if you’re already pretty sure the other person will say yes
- Read an abundance of indirect contextual cues to determine if your request is reasonable to make
- It’s rude to put someone in a position where they have to say no to you
- If the appropriate feelers and context are set, you will never have to make your request at all.
– Jean Hsu, Ask vs guess culture
There is this situation commonly referred to as "tutorial hell" that many, possibly the majority of new people get stuck in, which often results in them quitting game development as a whole. Tutorial hell is when you are only able to do things you've learned from tutorials and you're unable to take the more basic principles that you've learned to creatively implement your own solutions for your own problems.
– DaFluffyPotato's How to ACTUALLY get into Gamedev.
I find this observation is transferrable to most areas of knowledge.
For example, I can talk for hours about music production techniques but I barely know how to stitch them together and end up with a finished piece.
Unfortunately, I often see how career switchers in tech fall into this trap. They are pressured to prioritize learning "how" and thus never have the time to learn "why" things are done certain way.
It's important to find this time and use it to build things from scratch. Deliberately limit yourself in access to online advice. Do a write up about the results to cement the learning.
5 signs you're self-regulating through future fantasies #
- You are constantly in the ideation phase but rarely execute on your plans
- Your vision of success is a highlight reel, not a day-to-day reality
- You get defensive when talking about yours plans for the future
- The older you get, the more regret you experience about the life you didn't lead
- You identify more with your future self than with your present self
– Heidi Priebe, You Don't Lack Follow Through
Make friends with people who will encourage you on the path to your goals, and find ways to spend more time with them. Share your goals only with people who will support you, not those who will respond with cynicism or indifference.
– Steve Pavlina, Cultivating Burning Desire
Disclaimer: the rest of Steve's blog post is a generic self-help advice that you can safely skip ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A wobbly wooden chair built by a friend beats any designer chair. We need more wobbly websites.
– Taylor, The Cheap Web
it is impossible to learn any verifiable facts about matcha via mainstream search engines now