Free will is an illusion, which is very convenient because it means this bag of Doritos was inevitable

Stoicism is great until you realize that 'accepting what you cannot control' applies when someone on the internet is wrong

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

Fun fact: 100% of life advice that starts with 'just' is given by people who have never tried to 'just' do the thing they're recommending. 'Just stop caring what people think' 'Just be yourself' Maybe just stop simplifying everything according to your priors.

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

"Let's normalize" what the fuck about any of this is normal we crossed the normalize event horizon sometime around 2016 and now we're just free-falling through a reality where nothing means anything, you can't normalize your way out of this one