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Mind is software all written in the same computer language.

Its quality depends on the talent of the nurturing developers.

Elegant code is concise & clear.

Unnecessary complexity has been removed from its core.

Noise is gone.

What’s left? The beauty of simplicity.
Awakening is the ability to rewrite your own source code.
The most harmful condition implemented, which iterates itself to grow stronger, is probably:

“If you don’t get [X], then you will be unhappy.”

Freedom is about untethering yourself from this resiliently destructive mechanism.
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[THREAD] Learnt in 2018

1/ Most people will never treat themselves with respect & kindness.

A healthy relationship with yourself is the main requirement before any other kind of relationship.

Corollary:
Be it family, partner or friends, most relationships are crumbling wrecks.
2/ Met some older people (60+) who never came into conflict with close relatives. Husband, siblings, etc.

They are amongst the most superficial & dishonest individuals I have ever met.

We all want to live under the illusion of a perfect life.

Only cowards never face the truth.
3/ Short-term, we overestimate our potential accomplishments & long-term, we underestimate them.

I started to work towards self-improvement around 5 years ago.

The beginning was flat.

Nodes of progression only started to connect in 2017.
The network activity exploded in 2018.
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Even if you could live thousands of lifetimes,

you wouldn’t have enough time to read all the books or meet everyone.

“But you can always learn something from someone!”

Of course.
That’s how life is.

But life is also about good judgment, wise decisions & opportunity cost.
Don’t waste time on relationships which don’t provide mutual value.

The best relationships are effortless from the beginning and benefit from the power of compound interest.

Don’t waste time on reading rehashes of what you already know.

Most books aren’t worth reading.
Everytime I go to the library, I see a miracle.

Mankind’s ability to accumulate knowledge through the generations.

For whoever happens to be born in such an era, it’s a gift and a curse:

the flood of information is disorientating & scary.

And from confusion rises fear.
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It’s not *your* husband/wife/children.

Not *your* money.

You are neither a job nor a belief:

The more you assimilate yourself to a possession,

the more likely you are to be disappointed when you inevitably need to part ways.

Life itself is temporarily borrowed.
People can spend a lifetime living in false hopes & sour expectations.

You don’t owe anyone anything.
People don’t owe you anything.

If you hear:

“He *should* do something because he is <insert a label>”

Congrats: you can distance yourself from one spiritually blind person.
Keep in mind how the biggest creation of value correlated with providing a great service to many.

Helping yourself and helping others are far from being incompatible,

and that’s one of the best ways to create meaning for yourself.

An essential pillar of a healthy life.
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A thread for the "#software is not political" crowd. Whether you like it or not, all software is political because technology AFFECTS PEOPLE. If you came to #tech thinking you'd escape having to think about people, #politics, and society - you were mistaken. I'll show you why...
Before we start, remember this as you read. Just because YOU think the answer to any of these issues is clear-cut, it doesn't mean that issue is not political.

There are people who take the OPPOSITE position with just as much conviction, and they think it's clear-cut too.
Also - as an engineer, a developer or designer - if you choose to ignore the political and societal implications of your #technology, YOU HAVE MADE A POLITICAL CHOICE.
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Finally tonight... my Top 5 home #computer games from 1983! All were worth the 6 minute3 load time...
At No 5: Jetpack, from Ultimate Play The Game (1983). Assemble your ship and go!
At No 4: Snooker, from Visions Software Factory (1983). Always fun to play while waiting for the real thing to begin...
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Earlier, the subject of correcting child #language came up. That's a perfect segue to patterns of #acquisition for kids & adults

Both groups of learners will tend to go thru predictable patterns of errors and stages, regardless of language. Let's discuss some examples
U-shaped behavior: this is when someone gets super good at something, gets worse for awhile, then improves again

#languageteachers see this a lot and it's frustrating when you think, wait, "Student X just used the past tense perfectly all quarter! What are they doing now?!"
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Myth #5 (last of today): Language does NOT alter your cognition/inherent world view.

Of course, #language effects your life the same way your #culture, home town, or environment does. But what it doesn't do is give you non-linear time powers like in #TheArrival.
A great (not jargon-y) episode of @lexiconvalley talks about this with @JohnMcWhorter as the host:
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Don't have time for a podcast? Check out this @washingtonpost article specifically about the movie and the hypothesis:washingtonpost.com/national/healt…
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A cautionary and important note for #CEOs ...

Does #Talent expect differentiated treatment ?

Hungry People are constantly in search of better Restaurants for faster delivery of quality food.... so does  talent.
If you do not deliver #MeaningfulConnections and #ValuedEngagement to #HungryTalent in time, they go out in search for better #organisations to work for...where talent will be recognised, valued and served faster.
Don't then suddenly wake up & do STAY SURVEYS when faced with talent attrition
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Don't let #joggers block #sprinters
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0s and 1s commonly create speech that courts use -- that means precedence is set. #Code is speech -- they're languages made of bits! Point being, ISPs shouldn't be allowed to deny computer speech from being seen by others. #NetNeutrality

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