A Very Important Question Is One About Questions Themselves. Namely, How Do You Find Better Questions?

"wow ur so good at math" ah ha but you see. you dont ever get good at math. you stay bad, but now youre bad at harder math

If you're aware of an annoying pattern you keep doing, you've already won half the battle.

being self aware suuuucks like yeah this thought pattern/behavior is stupid and pointless and a symptom. i know this. [does it anyways

As of 2025, globally, 0.3% of Windows PCs and 0.1% of all devices across all platforms continue to run Windows XP.

The trilemma of fast, good, and cheap: you may attain two of these properties, but probably not all three. If it is fast and good, it probably won't be cheap. If it is good and cheap, it probably won't be fast. If it is cheap and fast, it probably won't be good.

Bonus: The concept of "cheap" is context-dependent and may not necessarily pertain to a thing's monetary cost.

NYC Subway Bacterial Petri Dish Art by Craig Ward

You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.

Carl Jung (via qvotable)

don't like trivia games. they're a test on everything you could possibly know (that is useless). don't respect a test that rewards breadth of life experience rather than ability to take a canonical set of materials and study the shit out of it. philosophically opposed to that

I refuse to have a LinkedIn, it itches my body everytime I've tried setting up an account

Somewhere out there is a guy with a bear trap on his head because it’s been on there for years and if he took it off now people would be like “Hey, you got rid of the bear trap! What prompted this?” and he won’t have a perfectly rational answer.