One Must Imagine That Things Could, In Fact, Be Good. Are You Willing To Put Forth The Energy To Construct

(smirking while handing you a hard shell crab) have a big bite dude. of course it's a soft shell crab

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

I worry that fake depictions of the middle ages are so pervasive that you couldn't even make an historically accurate one.

rip mathematics prodigy theodore j. kaczynski, more known for other work

whimsy is a virtue I think. one of the more important ones, especially if you're about to embark on a serious undertaking. and when things are getting distinctly unwhimsical in a situation it's generally a sign you ought to make yourself scarce.

I believe there are often very significant costs associated with being honest and open in the present moment.

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.”

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

during summer: i can't wait for winter

during winter: i can't wait for summer

Stop excluding me from your secret clubs.