Rejection
“Most dazzling human achievements are, in fact, the aggregate of countless individual elements, each of which is, in a sense, ordinary.”– Angela Duckworth (Another way of stating this is that individually we are ordinary, but together we are extra ordinary). Layers and layers of simple inventions, like the parts of a computer (or the layers…
Surprises
“Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected.”– Michael Lewis The only thing we can truly predict in this world is that the world will be unpredictable. This can scare some people, as we naturally don’t like surprises, but acceptance is the cure. Another way to describe…
Gadgets
“Love people and use things because the opposite never works.”– Joshua Fields Millburn Growing up in a sprawling suburbia, I would spend so much money, time, energy, and attention span on Amazon, Walmart, and just shopping online. My father used to remark on all the ‘gadgets’ I had accumulated through the years, saying how ridiculous…