“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.” ― Yasunari Kawabata “For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.” ― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

“Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.” – Carlos Santana “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” – William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun “Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.” – Ovid “Habits change into character.” – Ovid “Nothing is stronger than habit.” – Ovid ...

Proof you can do harder things 20 things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer Advice should go with its context. I still don’t know very much The hardest part of software is building the right thing The best software engineers think like designers The best code is no code, or code you don’t have to maintain Software is a means to an end Sometimes you have to stop sharpening the saw, and just start cutting shit ...

When a precocious yet nonconformist teenager asks why they need to learn calculus, what should you say? You know they will never use it in adulthood, outside of certain career choices. You could say, “It’ll help you get into college,” but then they’re left wondering why college cares if you know calculus. And once they’re in college, maybe you could say, “To get a good job,” but why would a potential hirer care how you did in multivariate calculus if your job doesn’t require any knowledge of calculus? ...

what is most diffcult is to love the world as it is, with all the evil and suffering in it. - Hannah Arendt They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allen Poe

From BLM, I heard of James Baldwin. From the pandemic, I learnt Hannah Arenht. Both are writers. Baldwin left America for France because of racism in America. Arenht left Germany for America because of Nazism. Here, another name, Sophie Scholl, popped up. “The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.” - James Baldwin ...

There is going to have the first Dark ID (DID) design. The idea of DID dwelled in my mind for about two years. Now I can finally see its form. I am not sure how others receive it but it’s mine, unique to what I am. This reminds me of one thing that Jorge Borges said in Spanish. “Sólo perduran en el tiempo las cosas
Que no fueron del tiempo.” After translation, it is roughly as follows: Only things that were not of time endure in time. This I believe applies to not only time, but many other things such as life. What you are is what you are. ...

The Rolling Stones has a song, You can’t always get what you want. It simply tells us that no matter how much we yearn it we can’t always get it. The angst and the pain we have to go through, it is real. It shows us what we are not who we are. It should help us to puncture the illusion we have about who we are supposed to be. It should wake up the dreams we are in like Shakespeare said, “We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” ...

忽忽三年，红尘永隔；盈盈一水，青鸟难通，结想为梦，引领成劳。 异史氏曰：“花面逢迎，世情如鬼。嗜痂之癖，举世一辙。‘小惭小好，大惭大好’。若公然带须眉以游都市，其不骇而走者盖几希矣！彼陵阳痴子，将抱连城玉向何处哭也？呜呼！显荣富贵，当于蜃楼海市中求之耳！”

“Why are you looking around for help? Do you believe that help will come from outside? What is to come is created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.” — C.G. Jung