movies
In any "ancient history/spy" action film you might expect to see these familiar scenes… Scenario 1: Modern Lock with Benefit of Hundreds of Years of Modern Lock Technology INT: Some Rich Dude's Vault, Probably Male Lead: Damn, it's locked. Female Lead: Don'
movies
Totally unexplainable reasoning. INT: Some Final Showdown with {BOSS VILLAIN HERE}, Probably in the Unlocked Throne Room 202212251336 Male Lead: You killed my brother! I can't forgive you for that, {BOSS VILLAIN HERE}, you murderer!! Villain: Haha, I…wait, are you serious? Male Lead: Serious about what? Villain:
movies
Multiple times throughout each movie, I made this face: What's the point of hiring A List actors if the narrative is a incomprehensible trash fire? What's the point of using a whole budget on a film you plan to just call in to cliches? I thought
programming
Code is a liability, not an asset. So goal of software engineer is delivering the maximum amount of desired functionality at the cost of the least amount of code complexity, even as desired functionality evolves over time. (View Tweet) Required Reading CIAL I want to code something every week 202212160248,
music
it’s disgusting how much i replay a song if i love it (View Tweet) the songs i played on repeat in 2022 (listened to multiple times per day):
linguistics
TL;DRI learned that the word "humble" comes from the word "humus," meaning of the earth and feminine. It really changes the vibe of Kendrick's HUMBLE. Additionally, I read advice from a book to be friendly towards a powerful man but not too modest,
deep-life
The worst characteristic of mood possession is that it robs one of all sense of meaning. Suddenly the “out there” is dominant in one’s inner life and the inner meaning of life is lost. One is then at the mercy of the “out there” for one’s sense of
religion
“To search for God is to insult God.” This implies that God is always present and any search for him is a refusal of this fact. A surgeon friend of mine likes to say, “Don’t fix what isn’t broken.” It is only an extension of that to say,
geography
BRO A LOCH IS A LAKE? loch /läk,läKH/ noun SCOTTISH a lake. I had always assumed it was something unique. Rivers and lochs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpMNj70e1Yw&list=WL&index=6&ab_channel=GeorgeDunnett
history
There’s a quip from the historian Will Durant, that a nation is born stoic and dies epicurean. (Location 538) What hard work is there to be done in 2023? Has rampant consumerism subsumed our desire to struggle to create a more perfect Union? …over time, this dynamic leads to
game-theory
Pride leads to arrogance and then away from humility and connection with their fellow man. You don’t have to be Christian to see the wisdom in this. You need only to care about your career to understand that pride—even in real accomplishments—is a distraction and a deluder.
epistemology
“as our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.” (Location 1311) The area of things known increases exposure to things on the precipice of known and not known. However, increasing exposure to the size of the outside set doesn't change the side of the