change without reason

the agony of love without justice is

Beaux Arts builders were more interested in decorative flair and monumental grandeur than the perfection of scale and proportion

good tools enhance invisibility

A good tool is an invisible tool. By invisible, I mean that the tool does not intrude on your consciousness; you focus on the task, not the tool.

A secret space to work on new things helps to keep you from quelling your own interest early on, when you’re still figuring things out. There’s no judgment allowed in the lab, only wild experimentation and idea generation.

We all need a place to kick around ideas or work on things that may never come to fruition.

people want to be fuckable more than they want to fuck

The big problem is when you start judging yourself. You can hide from your parents. You can find a partner who doesn’t judge your shortcomings. But you can’t outrun your own insecurities.

Everything is hard because it’s permitted

everything is permitted and nothing is possible

Decostered & Rahm Physiological Architecture

Another contributing factor was the conceptual freedom that we experienced in architecture school, something that is definitely lost when you move to the professional world. Software, we realized, still offered a bit more experimentation and personal creativity than architecture did in a real world context.

more empathy for their future self, and that was related to a decrease in procrastination.” They realized that time wasn’t infinite. Future them was no longer a stranger but someone to be protected. To get us off our butts, it seems, we need to grapple with the finite nature of our time on Earth.

The mere act of making a to-do list relieves so much itchy stress that it can, paradoxically, reduce the pressure to actually get stuff done.

Today, I only debate in person. Anything else is pointless, because it is too easy to walk away. I make sure we’re pulling from the same dictionary, and I make sure we’re aligned on the same goal, and not about making sure the other person converts to their side.

Love is a choice to be present.

when everything is highlighted, nothing is highlighted

Verbose highlights are painful to review

Human progress isn’t measured by industry. It’s measured by the value you place on a life. An unimportant life. A life without privilege. The boy who died on the river, that boy’s value is your value. That’s what defines an age, that’s… what defines a species. 

Trying too hard to understand the minutiae initially can make it easy to miss a fairly apparently general theme. It’s productive to learn the parts that are accessible before putting in effort to fully understand everything. Don’t miss the forest for the trees.

By the way, what's up with Iterator everywhere?