Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Porting My Twitter Over, Part 3

Aphorisms/Shorts

You probably need AI to enforce rules against AI.

(To make at home) Cold brew coffee tastes better, but requires planning ahead.  Normal coffee requires no prior work and has more caffeine.  You know which one wins most days.

"Even the class in the Dead Poet's Society was in rows." --  my wife.

The only thing we have to fear is confidence itself.

"It's the thought that counts" is an expression that was almost certainly created within the context of a family, and it only seems to work in that context.  The fact that so many people today spend so little time or attention in the domestic sphere makes the saying seem to ring totally false.

I've never met someone who appreciated, or even kept, a participation trophy.  Kids don't ask for them.  Kids aren't in charge of the situation. They're not for the kids.  They're for the parents, you idiots.

Complaining on the internet for an hour is easier and has more 1) short term and 2) guaranteed pay-off than spending that same hour working on a problem.  Now, repeat that across our species over billion of total hours . . .

If “show me, don’t tell me” was always correct writing advice, then Shakespeare would never have had asides. And Hamlet would have never said “to be, or not to be."

Being a relatively smart person hasn't yielded too many benefits in my life, but here is one: I have the cognitive skills and the memory to keep track of when people are thoughtful and careful with language to some people and not to others.

You fail to get warmth from 100% of fires you don't start.

Interesting is easier to hack than beautiful.  Hence, prioritize the beautiful over the interesting . . . especially in interesting times.

If the spoilers alone were enough to ruin something you were going to watch, then it wasn't worth watching.

At what point do you start adapting to a new reality, instead of just fashionably whining?

Probably the best idea, as measured by possible utility to the human race, I've had in months.  But, alas, oh alack! -- such is the nature of ideas: they need fertile ground to grow:
Get rid of the free throws in basketball; instead, every second foul place the player in a penalty box for 1 minute of game play.