Applied Generalist. Take action, fail, repeat.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined February 2009
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Wisdom from Baruch Spinoza (b otd 1632):
"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them."
"The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak."
"To understand is to be free."
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Imagine dropping a single microbe onto a lifeless alien planet, then coming back a few billion years later and seeing buzzing rainforests, giant sea creatures, and an advanced civilization flying rockets into space—all descendants of that one microbe. That actually happened here.
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What fills you with wonder, no matter when in your life?
For me, a night sky full of stars.
You?
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"You cannot go against nature
Because when you do
Go against nature
It’s part of nature too..."
—Love and Rockets
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“Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.”
- Mary Kay Ash
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Free time is the real status symbol.
Health is the real success.
Offline is the real life.
Inner peace is the real happiness.
Action is the real knowledge.
Honesty is the real freedom.
Death is the real motivation.
Smile is the real beauty.
Friendship is the real love.
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It’s interesting that in normal scale if you could drive to the moon, it would take 6 months of driving nonstop 60mph
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More isn't better.
Faster isn't further.
Money isn't wealth.
Habits aren't destiny.
Solitude isn't loneliness.
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It doesn’t matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.
-Confucius
#wednesdaywisdom
Peace is happiness at rest, and happiness is peace in motion...
You can convert peace to happiness any time you want, but peace is what you want most of the time…
If you're a peaceful person, anything you do will be a happy activity -@naval
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The patience to wait for opportunity.
The courage to take the first step.
The diligence to grind.
That's how you turn ordinary to extraordinary.
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It’s a beautiful day to remember that your Twitter timeline is not representative of the world at large.
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Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe -Physicist Michio Kaku
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Superpowers you can have:
- Ability to change yourself & your mind
- Not taking things personally
- Not needing to prove you're right
- Careful selection of all relationships
- Staying calm
- Being alone without being lonely
- Being ok being uncomfortable
- Thinking for oneself
