Book notes

"Don't take yourself so seriously, you're just a monkey with a plan."

"We are all bored and everything is boring. Occupied 24/7, doing nothing at all."

"In science, we move closer to the truth by seeking evidence to the contrary. Perhaps the same method should inform our opinions as well."

"It's impossible to learn which you believe you already know."

"If your mind's natural view of the world is skewed, it's skewed for a reason."

"Walking is a way to find possibility in your life when there doesn't seem to be any left."

"Corporation's freedom detracts from our freedom, and it's a zero-sum game."

"Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life."

"The practice requires you to seek out experience of uncertainty to place yourself in a room where you will create discomfort."

"Living well does not mean avoiding suffering; it means suffering for the right reasons."

"Beasts of England beasts of Ireland, Beasts of every land and clime, Hearken to my joyful tidings, Of the golden future time."

"I am committed to acting as ethically as I can while accepting my compulsory participation in a problematic capitalist paradigm."

"An occasional short sentence can carry a tremendous punch."

"What people say about you is more important than what you say."

"Our love for the digital interface is out of control, and our obsession is ruining the future of innovation"

"Assume nobody is going to help you. If someone does, then it gets even better."

"As long as we continue to be obsessed with work, work, and more work, the number of superfluous jobs will only continue to grow."

"If you want to be useful, you can start now. Just put one percent of your vision, and you are in the game."

"Unless you are a real ninja, rockstar, or guru, stay away from those words."

"Change comes from resetting defaults, installing barriers and designing how you spend your time."

"Elm functions are curried, which is the fancy way of saying they take one argument at a time."

"Market comes first, marketing second, aesthetic third, and functionality a distant fourth."

"Use more meaningful metrics like "helping people to achieve their goals" rather than "daily active users" or "time spent on site"."

""Quitters never win and winners never quit" is a bad advice. Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time."

"A dead program normally does a lot less damage than a crippled one."

"A typeface is an abstract idea, a design that does not take any physical form, while a font is the physical manifestation of a typeface."

"In chemical reactions, there are rate-determining steps which affects the time required to complete the reaction. Your weakest point is the rate-determining step."

"Supposedly it takes 10.000 hours to master something. Unfortunately, most people spend 10.000 hours trying to be jerks to others."

"An ontological secure person has his sense of the world, his identity and other beings in the world as an autonomous individual."

"All you need is to be a decent human being with a valued skill set and a willingness to share what you know with people who’ll listen."

"If you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you'll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you're done."

"You will never fully convince someone that he is wrong; only reality can."

"The physical reality does not exist until a measurement is made, which poses its own philosophical problems: Scrodinger's Cat and Wigner's Friend."

"Seventy-nine percent of smartphone owners check their device within fifteen minutes of waking up every morning."

"Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method."

"You and I have the same twenty-four hours each day. Is that how you will spend yours?"