Things that make all cultures laugh:

1. Beating someone with kitchen utensils
2. Falling from short flight of stairs
3. Swift fart delivered in silence
4. Adults dressed as twins

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Easy choices hard life

Hard choices easy life

There are people who do backups and people who will do backups.

Men are so emotionally incompetent without women, getting married is literally the healthiest thing a man can do in his life.

“A mundane encounter with a celebrity is the closest most people will come to an experience of the divine, when really, the thrill of the encounter is a symptom of the poverty of meaning in their lives,” Mick Jagger casually told me in the parking lot of a 7-11

To see what is in front of one’s nose requires constant struggle.

Russian saying:

“Life is hard but, fortunately, short.”

Whiny Neutered Goats Fly

What good games have in common: Winnable Novel Goals Feedback

I've even heard of people screen-recording them programming, and then watching later, to have an external view of how they spend their time, because in the moment you can't evaluate very well. Yet people don't regularly do this. There is no market where I can easily pay people to watch me talk, program, choose clothes, etc, and give me feedback.

Anyway. Momentum is real. Don’t discount it. Easiest way to never lose it is never stop shipping, listening to customers, having fun, and ultimately improving every day, little by little.

Keep it going daily, one foot in front of the other. That’s it.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.

Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

The truth will set you free. But first it will piss you off.

A Chilean saying:

“Criticizing a musician is easy, but it is more difficult when you have a guitar in your hand.”

It is the mark of a charalatan to explain a simple concept in a complex way.

Being poor is not having too little, it is wanting more.

This is the fastest way that I'm aware of that's anchored in real known biology to calm oneself down… It's an inhale through the nose, and the it's another inhale on top, and then a long exhale. That's the fastest way to slow your heart down and calm down.

“N years of experience” requirements are unnecessary gatekeeping. Smart people can pick up anything quickly, and diverse perspectives are valuable.

Socialist and nationalist revolutionaries are Latin America’s most successful criminal gangs, augmenting sheer brutality with fanatical ideology. The average person in these countries, however, craves tranquility and opportunity. Revolutionaries are a handful of wolves who make daily life hell, all the while vainly promising a heaven-on-earth that never comes. Unlike ordinary criminal gangs, however, Latin America’s revolutionaries have global legions of defenders and apologists.