Don’t try to take away anyone’s volition. If you’re gonna give advice, contextualize and mediate your opinions so they are not delivered as merely decisions you would make.

Silence is a painful but highly effective tonic to all forms of malaise.

Those who typically claim to always be right or know what they’re doing are almost always as insecure and dissonant (if not more) as you may think yourself to be.

Listening is truly a skill worth mastering. As for myself, I still hear lots of voices…

(On newspeak) Take a moment to discern the following utterances common in today’s youth parlance:
“Da Za smells loud”, “Imma flowkirkenuinely rizz dis huzz”, “On God bruh dis shii lowkey fire. Like its so lit, like fureal”
Whatever happened to the English language? What even is “colloquialism” in the context of these unintelligible examples? I may sound old, but really I’m just frustrated.

People today have woefully misconstrued the notion of time. Why is suddenly a 2-4 year age difference that important that it has to be distinguished by “generations”? So in the year 2005 you watched Spongebob at age 5 and I at age 3, I suppose you had quicker wits then but who’s the snotty kid now?

At least once a year I will think of Le Chatelier’s principle, which states that if in a system with dynamic equilibrium a disturbance occurs, it will seek to reestablish equilibrium by counteracting the effect of a change. I apply it to life when thinking of being resilient and how stability at any critical point in life can be restored.

My problem with today’s entertainment is that it’s too stupid to keep pretending it is any good. We’ve lost touch with the “thing-in-itself” (that enigmatic, bountiful spirit) when it comes to movies, music, advertising, etc. There’s almost always little subtext beyond the superficial, demanding no work at all from the audience. The corporate world has essentially turned art inorganic and vacuous, replacing its purpose (whichever it was once free to adopt) with a blatant drive to selling you stuff, and that’s it.

Most computer science students are oblivious to the true value of the discipline they’re undertaking. And no, the boisterous telling of your trivial confrontation with Python syntax to your peers does not make you a roughened programmer. In fact, it doesn’t even merit sympathy.

Neurotic behavior is not to be commended; although, I will say its gotten me pretty far in some daunting life endeavors like school exams, work deadlines, and things of a
life-depriving nature.