NYC Subway Bacterial Petri Dish Art By Craig Ward

I love the way leveling works in so many games, like "shooting an arrow through my arm used to kill me, but I picked up a bunch of random things and brought them to random people and the experience was so rewarding that now a rocket-propelled grenade to the face is only a minor inconvenience"

*through gritted teeth* it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done. it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be done. it doesn’t have to be-

When my mind hands me a small thought, I can ask “Is this true?” and my mind will answer “Good question, let’s go over three thousand different rationality techniques and see what answer each of them gives.

When my mind hands me a big thought, I ask "Is this true?” and my mind just answers “It better be, m——–r, cause this is how you’re gonna be thinking about everything from now on.”

wherever you go

When I see mosses, I think about how they function similarly to sensors or organic bioindicators. For example, you can potentially determine when an environment is contending with pollution merely by looking at moss from a distance. But moss can also be collected and thoroughly examined in a laboratory.

The cool thing about doing math professionally is that you can work anywhere - on your walks, in the shower, as you fall asleep - just by rotating problems in your head. What's not so cool is that this drives you insane

imagine being a billionaire. like, you put in work, nearly fail, but push onward anyways. you develop something novel. you make it scale. you push the envelop to do something that's never been done before. but then, part of the thing you win in the end game is a bunch of communists saying you should die or that you should be forced to hand over what you've earned smh. what an infantile ideology

Bruckner Expressway, South Bronx, 1958

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