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Jeffrey was a bit of a dick, and liked to keep people waiting, just to show how important he was.
yep, ego games
She’s entitled to her opinion and you’re entitled to her opinion, as well.”
teenage kids
“Don’t make the common mistake of thinking your opponents are stupid just because they don’t see things your way,
fallacy
Kiroshi said. “We are two busters short of a one-on-one matchup, and that’s without dealing
took a moment to mourn the people I’d just killed. Very probably they were just following orders. But those orders had meant knocking a city containing several hundred civilians out of the sky. There was a point where following orders didn’t cut it.
Some people just seemed to want to display their power by defining what others could or couldn’t do.
Shift your schedule and you simply shift the nature of the bottleneck.
you’re doing things the hard way, because you’re too lazy to figure out how to do them the easy way?
“Ah, the good old days,” I replied. “When things were simpler, kids were more respectful, and we had to walk to school through six feet of snow.” “Barefoot.” “Uphill.” “Both ways.”
Good old days
Geometric progression sounded great on paper, but it assumed you had infinite resources to draw upon, and no external pressures. The reality was less forgiving.
Geometric prog
seemed sometimes that life was nothing more than the accumulation of emotional baggage—memories, regrets, and lost opportunities.
Baggage
