Hamish

“There are time limits in life that we can't postpone, and that's exactly why we should give ourselves deadlines. It's good practice. For the big one.”
― captain disillusion

“Prior to my breakdown I went through a 5 week manic phase, with increasing mental excitation, decreasing sleep, and a near certainty that I wa sthe first person to actually understand what Ludwig Wittgenstein was actually saying.”
― Robert Trivers, Wild Life: Adventures of an Evolutionary Biologist

“The emotionally Hobbesian meat market of the "dating scene".”
― David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

“Statistics about other copies of a team make it harder for team members to deceive themselves about their past performance or their chances for future performance. Such ems may become more like chess players today, where objective performance measures (i.e., their rating) force them to accept their current performance and abilities. This tends to make such players less happy, as they can't pretend to be better than they are. If this happiness effect reduced em productivity sufficiently, ems may adopt attitudes such as "never tell me the odds", often avoiding information about their relative chances of future success.”
― Robin Hanson, The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth