beer can game is strong these days, whew 🔥

the value of having a large vocabulary isn't in being eloquent or impressing others, it's in being precise you don't need to use a big word when a small word will do, just don't use the wrong word “To use language well is to use it particularly. Precision of utterance is both a form of lyricism and a species of attention.” gm

i am cooking my shrimp in beef tallow, ama

having a job and being a productive member of society are two different things they often overlap but not always being a productive member of society is what you want to aim for

gm 🌅✨ i started using this Winamp clone on Mac called re:Amp now instead of using whatever apple bloatware music store that requires login and takes forever to load, or an always-on streaming subscription firehose that sucks up bandwidth, or a youtube tab that sucks up memory... i just go to a music folder and drag in some mp3s and press play 😌

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re:AMP is a lightweight audio player for macOS with full Winamp 2 skins support

there's a point in the aging process where you pass through the "dude, grow up" phase after which, if you successfully do exactly that, you will soon be admired not for growing up but for maintaining a youthful spirit and optimism 😅

some days i feel like i'm far too sincere and earnest and other days i feel like i'm not being sincere or earnest enough gm

tell the truth. leave people alone. be kind. work hard. take responsibility. aspire to greatness. ignore what you cannot control. be of service. build things. practice courage. these are my politics

gm ☕✨

read paper books. listen to audio recordings if you want, and have a kindle around if you like it, but not at the expense of paper books not out of nostalgia or tradition but out of efficacy physical media sticks around

just set my VPN location to Brazil and doomscrolled on twitter for a bit gm ✨

a solid 99% of my bugs are not because of some complicated logic mistake or a subtle change to an imported library or an arcane syntax update, which is where i focus 99% of the next several hours looking it's a missing comma, semicolon, or letter

the unrealized cap gains thing will never happen but the mere fact that it's being put forth reveals how stupid they think people are gm

one thing people often fail to consider is that higher income households are the cohort with the employers who provide lower income jobs when you attempt to punish the successful you assume that what you're inflicting will simply be absorbed. but if only higher income households are taxed aggressively then those taxes will either result in business closures or passed down as lower wages of course, the successful are among the best at redirecting costs and passing on liabilities to others. if they have to pay more that's fine: they'll just charge more. if their business has to close, that's fine: file bankruptcy & start over or retire. the ones who lose are folks left without an employer, or in a now-prohibitively regulated industry w/ diminished demand taxes + regulations follow the primary law of ecology: you can never do just one thing i believe that most of the woes and problems in the world are not the result of malice or stupidity but simply a widespread inability to see past first-order consequences

make it make sense

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. —Richard Feynman

a great manager gets the best out of people. that's the value they bring and why they can justify not just their existence but good pay too needless to say, great managers are very scarce but to dismiss management outright is to misunderstand the role. it's about increasing the leverage of a firm. getting more with less.

Voltaire may have been peak France

do these box office records ever control for ticket price inflation? pretty sure we're gonna just keep breaking box office records in perpetuity

picanha is on the menu tonight fam courtesy of K&C Cattle here in Austin, TX