There's this quote that is attributed to Bruce Lee that goes something like,
I don't fear the man who has practiced 10,000 (different) kicks, but the man who has practiced the same kick 10,000 times.
Another way to state this—it is better to be very good/effective …
read moreCleaning out some stuff in my room, I noticed that I have often kept packaging for various stuff—for instance, the original box that came with some electronic gadget. At times, this has been helpful for getting more resale value buying/selling used stuff, but overall it is a space-hogging …
read moreBy examining our own habits (and individual actions), we can look at how the choices we make impact the people and institutions around us. For instance, growing up going to school, most of us probably had some classes we liked more and others we liked less. Was this simply an …
read moreWhat needs to be said? Anybody who has put forth great effort to try and change themselves (or somebody else) will know that "talk is cheap"—while wise words will help someone who has already decided to turn away from their old mistaken ways, speaking much is wasted effort on …
read moreWhere I am from, they would tell you to look up at the sky and see the stars—balls of gas millions and millions of miles away. They would say to visit them, you need to travel light years; light goes really fast, and a year is a long time …
read moreThe "original encryption" of symbolism, different languages, allegory, and parables cannot be silenced. As I've been exploring in my Search Engine Stupidity series, a lot of players in this world now are trying to control speech (and through this thought) via "data-driven"/algorithmic approaches. 1
Ultimately, this approach is futile …
read moreLikely, you've heard the phrase "learn by doing". Indeed this is often the most painless way to learn—we start by doing something relatively simple and gradually build/add to our responsibilities. Before long, with steady application of effort, we are able to do very complex things we probably couldn't …
read moreIt is very politically correct to frame any trouble in terms of "the pandemic". To talk about coping, days "blurring together" (forced meme "blursday"), and how pharmaceuticals and other products of "the machine" can help us "just get by". 1 It is almost as if everyone is being encouraged to …
read moreFundamentally, what a business does is exchange some good or service for some form of payment. So if you buy a chair for $30, you give the business $30 somehow and then they get a chair to you, somehow. Business can of course be more abstract/complex. Insurance, for instance …
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