"I'm depressed" Your options: Therapist: $200/session Philosopher: Free, but you have to read Religion: Free, but there are rules Internet: Free, but now everything is 100x worse

You're here. You're here, and you're probably not going to be a billionaire. You're probably not going to be a rock star or a movie star or any kind of star at all. Your Wikipedia page may never exist. And that's okay.

Westenberg.

You Are Insignificant. That's a Good Thing.

A Short Guide to Being Infinitesimally Small

Increasingly convinced that the internet's entire understanding of the concept of "irony" is based on Alanis Morissette

guy who's really into stoicism but only the "control your emotions" part and not the "also you should probably accept death calmly and live virtuously" part and also sucks at controlling his emotions

New internet hobby: Musking. It's when you find the dumbest shit on the internet and reply "Yes" under it.

Drug development costs $1-3 billion and takes 10-15 years to prove a drug is safe // effective, then 30% of Americans immediately decide it's poison because a guy in Macedonia pretending to be from Massachusetts said so on X...

The QWERTY keyboard was designed to reduce mechanical jamming in early typewriters. We kept it for computers. Which don't jam. How many of our systems are just preserved solutions to problems that no longer exist? And how would we even know?

In every dystopian novel: the government bans books. In reality: we gave up reading voluntarily.

When the code bot says "I see the issue now" I cannot emphasise enough how much it has not and will not see the issue now or at any point in the future, in any future, in any universe, across all space and time

Everyone talks about "hustle culture" vs "quiet quitting" but nobody mentions the third option which is what like 80% of knowledge workers actually do: appearing frantically busy while accomplishing approximately one good hour of work per day, spread across 47 browser tabs and 6 Slack channels