ASSORTED: Various short thoughts and quotes:

Aesthetic study: self-identification and merging with things, the image is transcribed onto the screen of reality.

“Never share personal stuff with anyone except your spouse maybe. Especially work people. You are going to find 1 maybe 3 people in your entire life you can really trust.” – Random comment from The Internet

He was accustomed to dealing with soldiers and civil servants, whose job is to obey orders.” – T.Chiang, “Understand”

Where there is power, there is the potential for fascism. A healthy system – decentralization; complex systems… better to have frequent small disturbances and regular training than long periods of pseudo-stability punctuated by infrequent but significantly challenging disruptions.

“Moreover – he surmised that it’s not the most skillful, intelligent, or brave who succeed in life. Rather – quite the opposite. The one who wins is skillful. The one who triumphs is brave…” – S.Dovlatov

If are about to be a genius and you have anything else to do besides work, that means you may need to change your job.

“Arabs have an expression about clear prose: to understand it, no skills are needed; to compose it, true mastery is required.” – N.Taleb

Smells – works same as music’s memories… melody is a molecule.