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I 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.
Came in not expecting much, but those are all good points, expressed concisely.
The 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.
The one part I struggle with is -accept everything-. Acceptance helps with what cannot be changed, but I have also become happier by refusing to accept certain jobs, habits, relationships...
That is deeply compatible with using your energy to create a better world for yourself and others.
Shortly before he passed during his AMA he offered some advice I try to follow. Me This doesn't really relate to psychopaths but I just wanted to say I've been a follower of yours for years since I discovered your state machine language, multi-threaded kernel and web server back in the 90's. The AMQP / ZMQ work you've done is inspiring. How do you do it? Pieterh Well, thank you! :) I don't know how my brain works, bu…
>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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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.
The 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.
My experience is that for people with kids, this benefit basically disappears and they want every spare second they can get