I was going to lead with “Don’t assume that other people have it right and you don’t” combined with “Most people are sleepwalking through life, so be careful about asking random strangers for advice”; however, I like this list and hope more people will upvote it.

Thomas Dolby, “I love you, goodbye”.

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I was your breakfast…

New Dutch programming language just dropped.

For answering a question, no limit on elapsed time, as long as your answer can actually be helpful.

https://xkcd.com/979/

Very no.

Idiots began to demand perpetual growth and other idiots began trying to make it happen. And then it became institutionalized. And then the idiots forgot they were idiots.

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I use the language that I think my interlocutor would prefer. If I don’t know, then I default to the language of the social context, unless I specifically want to practise a language at that moment. If I want to practise, then I ask first.

It doesn’t.

Humans want information to be free. Hoarding information is like hoarding any other resources. It causes power imbalances. Free information means that power is more evenly distributed.

Some contestants phrase every question with “What is…?” Matt Amodio is well known for doing this. He won many times.

Ultra Edit 32 was excellent.

It made sense to scare people into being reasonable. That was the Old Testament.

Once they acted less stupidly, it became safer to let people be as they are. That was the New Testament.

Agile as she is spoke. 🤷

Options have value.

Options expire.

🤷

You don’t even need the hyphen!

Mind = blown.

Burnout has lasting effects. The only effective antidote is rest until rest actually leads to recovery once again. I have struggled with actually resting, as opposed to merely pausing, but feeling anxious about the next batch of commitments to try to live up to.

The quality of your rest is likely to determine what happens next. Rest the best and deepest you can.

Peace.

Yes. I focus on making direct requests and on trying to understand the unmet needs of others. A large part of what I do is train people to believe that they can say “no” to me without arbitrary repercussions.

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