Kimiko: My heart is nothing more than an engine forged from the remnants of a dead star. You know that.
—Dresden Codak
“Sons” lyrics by Flowers (Icehouse)
We don’t know this place
this wasted stretch of land
and these steaming horizons
it’s locked in our past
it’s stragely so familiar
like a scar on our memory
no sign of the ancient heroes
who gave us this one last hour
it’s so still, there’s so few of us here
there’s no sound here at all
the last light disappears
with the Sons of decay
the ones left to stay
For years we were lost
we slept as systems stored us
they sealed in our orders
we woke up alone
in this silence and this space
as if nothing happened
no sign of the ancient heroes
who left us this one long hour
it’s so still, there’s so few of us here
love, I’m feeling so small, all night
just waiting here
with the Sons of decay
the ones left to stay
[I went and looked this up after reading it described as 'science fiction oriented']
“Choose the harder choice every time”
“Here, as so often, the best defense is a good offense. If you can develop technology that’s simply too hard for competitors to duplicate, you don’t need to rely on other defenses. Start by picking a hard problem, and then at every decision point, take the harder choice.
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This is a good plan for life in general. If you have two choices, choose the harder. If you’re trying to decide whether to go out running or sit home and watch TV, go running. Probably the reason this trick works so well is that when you have two choices and one is harder, the only reason you’re even considering the other is laziness. You know in the back of your mind what’s the right thing to do, and this trick merely forces you to acknowledge it.”
- From “How to make wealth” http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
I really like this guy’s page. He writes very clearly about interesting topics in an uncomplicated manner without being repetitive or boring.
