Rebecca Toh on changing ourselves…
There is simply no imaginary day in the bright future ahead when we’d wake up in the morning transformed, an ideal version of ourselves.
There is only transforming in the here and the now.
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by Patrick Rhone
Rebecca Toh on changing ourselves…
There is simply no imaginary day in the bright future ahead when we’d wake up in the morning transformed, an ideal version of ourselves.
There is only transforming in the here and the now.
I agree with Mr. Harden, more of these, please.
My purpose online is to live up to this custom domain: http://nicestguyontheinternet.com
That’s it. That’s my main goal here.
If you ever see me not living up to it, correct me please.
Writing with a fountain pen often feels like painting words onto paper with ink.
Thought: Not all dependencies are moving parts, but every moving part creates a dependency. Dependencies introduce potential points of failure where none otherwise exist.
Further thought: Electricity is a moving part.
Thought: The less technology involved, the better the tool.
Related: The tool with the least moving parts will last the longest.
Also related: Digital bits are moving parts.
Thought: Drivers in California rarely signal. Yet, my rental car steering wheel vibrated with warning every time I even touched a lane marker without doing so like it was scolding me.
Do their cars not scold them? Why not? I wish they would.
Thought: In my experience, when you are friends with a couple, both equal in friendship in your mind, when they split only one of those friendships will remain at the same level it was before. The other, likely, will mostly disappear. Doesn’t have to be that way. And yet…
Thought: With the pandemic, basic situational awareness has gotten worse for many. Things like, how elevators work (don’t get on one going down if you want to go up), how escalators work (don’t get off one and just stand there while figuring out where to go), etc.