Our economy is designed to transfer wealth and income into the pockets of those who need it least, and any opposition to this structural inequality is treated as political radicalism.

If you have the time to learn only one technique, this is the one to try. In coherent breathing, the goal is to breathe at a rate of five breaths per minute, which generally translates into inhaling and exhaling to the count of six. If you have never practiced breathing exercises before, you may have to work up to this practice slowly, starting with inhaling and exhaling to the count of three and working your way up to six.

1. Sitting upright or lying down, place your hands on your belly.
2. Slowly breathe in, expanding your belly, to the count of five.
3. Pause.
4. Slowly breathe out to the count of six.
5. Work your way up to practicing this pattern for 10 to 20 minutes a day.

Nobody listens to me in real life, but on the Internet everyone does. People need to be told to get to work on things. They need a boss so they stop making excuses.

“He seems uncommonly attentive to his son’s whims and moods, but he freely admits that it is a burden to have a child. This is not a value judgment but a statement of fact with regard to money, energy, and time.”

On Mr Moneymustache

Paying for parking is a sign from God that you’re in an area not designed for a car. You are fighting the design of your city.

It turns out that having the discipline to live frugally, to invest rather than spend, to mend and make do, and to be able to live for longer and longer periods of time without having to work, are true measures of wealth.

Sve što uradite umesto svog deteta, uradili ste protiv njega.

Here is what a ‘true and lucid consciousness of the situation’ of fatherhood might resemble: you watch wide-eyed as your beloved pushes a stranger out of a bodily orifice that seems altogether too small for the labour; when the gore is cleaned up, the stranger becomes your most intimate companion and life-long dependent; existence, from that day forward, is structured around this dependency; and then, if everything goes well, the child will grow up to no longer need you. At the end of the existential day, your tenure as a father will end in one of two ways: either your child will die or you will. As Kierkegaard writes in Either/Or (1843): ‘You will regret both.’

Raising children is an uncertain thing. Success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Pisan ima dramu u kojoj kaže oduzmi običnom čoveku životnu laž i oduzeo si mu životnu sreću.

The scientific mind is not closed: it is merely well-guarded by a conscientious and seldom sleeping gatekeeper.

Četiri jahača lokalne apokalipse - glupost, primitivizam, laž i pohlepa.

The best teachers I remember from school had three things in common:

1. They had high standards. Like three year olds testing their parents, students will test teachers to see if they can get away with low-quality work or bad behavior. They won’t respect the teachers who don’t call them on it.
2. They liked us. Like dogs, kids can tell very accurately whether or not someone wishes them well. I think a lot of our teachers either never liked kids much, or got burned out and started not to like them. It’s hard to be a good teacher once that happens. I can’t think of one teacher in all the schools I went to who managed to be good despite disliking students.
3. They were interested in the subject. Most of the public school teachers I had weren’t really interested in what they taught. Enthusiasm is contagious, and so is boredom.

Maxims of George Washington

• It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
• The most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it.
• Good company will always be found less expensive than bad.
• By acting reciprocally, heroes have made poets and poets heroes.
• When there is no reason for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent.
• It is easy to make acquaintances but very difficult to shake them off.
• Too much zeal creates suspicion.
• Ridicule begets enmity not easy to be forgotten but easily avoided.
• Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.
• Nothing is more useful for the formation of correct habits than the turning of our comments upon others, back upon ourselves.

He who is not satisfied with little, is satisfied with nothing.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

The limits of language are the limits of your world.

The best advice I ever got was Jim Watson, who co-discovered DNA. Jim is brilliant, and as many brilliant people are a little bit crazy, and Jim has this admonishment which is double meaning, three words: ‘Avoid boring people.’ I love it, because what he’s saying is, ‘Stay away from people who are not interesting,’ avoid boring people, and, ‘Avoid boring people. Don’t be boring to people. Be interesting.’”

Conway's Law:

Organizations which design systems […] are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.