Month: June 2024

You must break the pattern today. Or the loop will repeat tomorrow. You must break the pattern today. Or the loop will repeat tomorrow.

Someone on Twitter

You are not that smart. And your enemies are not that dumb.

This thought comes to me as I read an article about global warming and the Brilliant Ideas to prevent it. “Fix the problem” people suggest ‘brilliant’ solutions and consign everyone else to idiot/enemy status.

Neither groups is as presented.

You can see the reverse, too. The alarmists are perceived as charlatans or worse by the status quo people. This is equally wrong.

It’s retards all the way down.

Itchy and Scratchy.

“I see you have a complex problem: it has a real part and an imaginary part.” — Richard Hamming

So stop looking outside in books or whatnot for direction. Note what is happening within. Be unflinching. Change what you can.

This is a quote from some Jason Fried interview, allegedly. Even assuming this attribution is correct (don’t care ‘cause it don’t matter) . . . it rings true.

Tell me how you make money. Not what you do, how you make money. Okay…draw a circle around that, what is needed to make that a) happen and b) grow…and then draw another circle and decide how to protect that.

Everything else is clutter.

Sarcasm is a thin veneer that covers deep yearning.

“So then, what are we really questing for? And here is the answer: It is the fullfillment of what is potential in ourselves, our true selves. It is not an ego trip. You are not your ego. You experience your ego. You are not your thoughts. You experience your thoughts. You are not your feelings. You experience your feelings. And you are not your body. You behold your body. This recognition awakens a heritage within us that exists before all these mythologies, religions and belief systems came into being and into our traditions. It’s an awakening of our own pre-ego, pre-Hindu, pre-Jewish, pre-Buddhist, pre-Muslim, pre-Christian hearts.”

– Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss