If you know how quickly people forget the dead, you'll stop living to impress people.

As I got older, I realized:

1. lost money can be found; lost time is lost forever
2. learning to learn, and changing yourself is a superpower
3. you are not your job
4. networking is about giving
5. best teacher is your last mistake
6. good manners as important as good education
7. do not take your health for granted
8. be a better friend and value relationships
9. if you are waiting for a title to lead, you are not ready to lead
10. a sponsor is more important than a mentor
11. a good story is soulful with sprinkling of data
12. stop worrying about what others think of you
13. if you want an easier life, work on harder problems
14. best teachers are life long students
15. imposter syndrome is real
16. fight against a sense of entitlement
17. half the battle is showing up
18. love and cherish your parents by giving them your time
19. success is not accidental
20. the best views are there for those who love the climb
21. lucky people work harder
22. takers may end up with more, but givers sleep better at night
23. memorizing is not learning
24. it is okay to look back, just don’t stare
25. knowing is not acting
26. straight roads do not make great drivers
27. good listeners hear the unsaid
28. be the person that you want to follow
29. do not limit your contribution to a job description
30. if you are waiting for a title to lead, you are not ready to lead
31. customer service is not a department
32. in the long run, the optimists do more
33. never ruin an apology with excuses

If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

They say creativity is born of limitations.

U životu sve može da se desi, a naročito ništa.

Uelbek

“Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.”

1915. The Kaiser is informed that Italy will switch sides, General von Falkenhayn said: it makes no differences. If they are against us, it will take 10 divisions to defeat them. If they are with us, it will take 10 divisions to support them.

“How could disinformation campaigns even work?” you ask. Well, millions of people still think the US Army created AIDS at Ft. Detrick thanks to a 1983 KGB op, using a single article in an Indian newspaper.

Things I believe are strongly correlated to happiness Foundation:

• Consistent quality sleep
• Regular exercise
• Reasonable diet
• Hydration
• Managing stress
• Strong relationships

Extra:

• Time outdoors
• Time in nature
• Going for a swim in lake/ocean etc.
• Frugality
• Humility
• Gratefulness
• Regular active seeking of discomfort
• Decluttering physical and digital space
• Dropping need to constantly sanitize body/environment
• Doing hard things
• Doing things for others
• Reading
• Creating

LPT: Got a friend or family in the hospital? Consider giving them cozy blankets, soft socks, open toe slippers, book/eReader reader, long phone charger, and condiments for food instead of flowers.

My favourite fact about Lennon is that he had a environmentally controlled closet with dehumidifier in his London house, just for his fur coat collection. “Imagine no possessions” indeed.

My favourite thing about being in the EU. There's a lot to love about being in the EU:

✓ Freedom to move and work

✓ Forming a trading powerhouse

✓ Ensuring consumer rights and safe products

✓ Backing up human rights and rule of law

✓ Maintaining the peace

✓ Creating a Europe-wide solidarity corps

✓ Allowing scientists share research and resources

✓ Eliminating roaming

✓ Erasmus

✓ Health insurance that works anywhere

✓ The right to visit any EU embassy and get help

✓ Education certificates recognised anywhere in EU

✓ Pooling resources to spend more cleverly and work together

But my absolute favourite thing about the EU is the optimism of an incredibly unlikely project. It is easier to divide people than to bring them together. It is easier to tear things down than it is to build them. It is easier to whimper and panic in the face of a challenge than to face it. But that is not what the European Union is about. The EU brings together instead of dividing. The EU builds things when others would tear them down. And more than anything else, the EU faces its challenges with the ambition and determination that the European people deserve.

Happy Europe Day my friends 🇪🇺

Strong beliefs, loosely held.

In recent years, psychologists have come to understand religion and paranormal belief as resulting, in most people, from simple errors in reasoning. You believe in God or astrology or a purpose in life because you apply ideas about people—that they have thoughts and intentions—to the natural world. Some display this tendency more than others, but it’s there in everyone, even atheistic heathens like me.

We all deal with different forms of repression and we all get weird packets of sexual information from the culture around us. This mixed messaging makes you feel wrong no matter what you do. That goes doubly for young women, who have to deal with the Madonna-whore complex the dynamic generates.

The state, and especially an authoritarian state, is constructed like a bank: the minute that citizens-depositors lose faith, they withdraw everything of value.

How to compose a successful critical commentary:

• You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way.
• You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement).
• You should mention anything you have learned from your target.
• Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.

Nietzsche ties nihilism to “loss of confidence in our powers”, and it comes from local religious traditions being destroyed.

Why do we need patch management? -Wannacry

Why do we need credential management? -Nyetya

Why do we need backups? -Someone uses real 0day

Rationality means believing what is true, not what makes you feel good.