I cant' believe it's almost 10 years since he died. My favorite quote of his is "Who needs a bucket list when you have love?”
I wish more people would take his ideas seriously, especially his "Collective Code Construction Contract".
Ten Steps Towards Happiness (2015)
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#23wozniak simple formula i quite like : H = S − F: your Happiness on any given day is your count of Smiles minus your count of Frowns
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not a binary choice, but a spectrum. It depends on the scope and your own abilities - you can't turn a river around with a stick, but you can clean up your part of the lawn. Keep control over what you can control, and don't get too upset about what you can't - so with a little effort you change (or progress) a little part of the world. Funnily enough I also know some happy people who adhere to none of these poin…
> you can't turn a river around with a stick Somebody forgot to tell this[0] guy. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashrath_Manjhi
That's a lot of rock.
It is a thing with humans. We :
1. overestimate how much we can do in a short amount of time.
2. underestimate how much we can do incrementally over a long amount of time.
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#25I have been trying to square such suggestions for happiness with G.B. Shaw's quote: > "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." The steps towards happiness basically require accepting the world as is and appreciating it as is. Does that mean happy people are reasonable? And if they ar…
I'm not religious nor a recovering alcoholic, but I've always liked the serenity prayer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer.
Obviously it is unreasonable to continue walking with a stone in your boot because you want to adapt to it; equally obviously it is unreasonable to expect your boots to last forever without repair.
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#26>Don't take it all too seriously, we all die.
Wise wisdoms overall, to have this particular advise from someone who has passed away just hit a different notes.
There's an old Chinese proverbs on being happy:
"If you want to be happy for an hour, take a nap. If you want to be happy for a day, go fishing. If you want to be happy for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want to be happy for a lifetime, help someone else".
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#27I upped the font size on my Pixel recently and this is one of those sites where (in Firefox) the sidebar takes up more than 50% of the width of the screen and retains tiny text while the article itself wraps on a couple words per line.
You're right.
I've used reader mode(the paper in the url bar in Firefox) to solve this.
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#28The one thing I'd put in context is "don't waste time on commuting". In Europe for sure and possibly many parts of Asia like Japan or bigger metropolises in China etc. most people will commute by public transport. You can read. Whenever I had a job where I commuted at least an hour a day, the number of books I read, per month, went from 2–3 to 10 or more.
It's great if you can do that -- some people (I, for one) get such heavy nausea from reading in any kind of transport that the only thing I can do is listen to the music and look at the clouds.
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#29I have been trying to square such suggestions for happiness with G.B. Shaw's quote: > "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." The steps towards happiness basically require accepting the world as is and appreciating it as is. Does that mean happy people are reasonable? And if they ar…
Yes, yes, and no.
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#30I have been trying to square such suggestions for happiness with G.B. Shaw's quote: > "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." The steps towards happiness basically require accepting the world as is and appreciating it as is. Does that mean happy people are reasonable? And if they ar…
I mean you have to ask what does unreasonable mean in this context? Because in a literal meaning, that basically puts both John Carmack and Adolf Hitler in the same "unreasonable men" bucket. Both had ideas for the "world" and adapted it to themselves. But I don't think we should read it that way. Also you should never take one philosopher's idea and only follow it in isolation. Every great thinker has massive blind…
> More so, do you think Hitler was unhappy?
Yes, he killed himself in the end. If the question is whether he was always unhappy, well, I'm sure there were happy points in his life.