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It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. … The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. – Soren Kierkegaard [Man] is a specific organism of a specific nature that requires specific actions to sustain his life. . . . That which his survival requires is set by his nature and is not open to his choice. What is open to his choice is only whether he will discover it or not, whether he will choose the right goals and values or not. He is free to make the wrong choice, but not free to succeed with it. He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see. . . . Man is free to choose not to be conscious, but not free to escape the penalty of unconsciousness: destruction. ...

After reading the Rivonia 1964, you have to admire Mandela and how fortunate South Africa had Mandela at that time. Look at Gaza now. The terrorist attack by Hamas seemed such a desperate choice when there was no choice left. Will Israel stop its war against Hamas? Will both Israel and Palestine return to two-state solution? When Russia invaded Ukraine, US stands with Ukraine. When Israel invaded Palestine, US stands with Israel. Hamas is a group of terrorists. That is not a question. But why had so many Palestinian civilians to be killed? ...

Rivonia 1964 from Rachael Meager. the speech from the dock in the Rivonia trial (1964) Long Walk to Freedom (1994) Why Mandela and his comrades decided to pursue sabotage and other forms of political voilence? “I, and the others who started the organisation [Umkhonto], did so for two reasons. Firstly, we believed that as a result of Government policy, violence by the African people had become inevitable, and that unless responsible leadership was given to canalise and control the feelings of our people, there would be outbreaks of terrorism which would produce an intensity of bitterness and hostility between the various races of the country which is not produced even by war. ...

It’s been 15 days. On Oct 7, 2023, Hamas launched a terrorist attack against Israel. Then Israel began its retaliatory air strikes to Gaza and its war against Hamas. This war is complicated. Two things should be clear. Hamas’s attack to Israel is a terrorist one. Israel shut down water and electricity to Gaza, and bombed hospital and church. It is war crimes against civilians.

In the age of Internet, how could we individual stay current with the world? How to gather the facts in the fast-going conflict, and form our opinions? Only free speech could lead to the truth. the movie, Curiosa.

Unity claimed that 70% of the top 1000 mobile game developers chose it. Its new policy of installation fee attracts a lot of critism and anger, from indie developers in particular. However, the cause of this is due to the market changes: the market of mobile game has its first decline after 7 years’ expansion. the population of mobile game stops to increase. the growth hey-day of mobile game is over. This may be the cause of Unity’s new policy, to survive the coming tough time. ...

There are several things coming together recently. It’s time to present them together. The first thing is a tweet. Now it’s hard to retrieve it but the idea is below. “They’re like the “entrepreneurship” professor that never built a business. They’re experts in the meta-game – they’re polished speakers, engaging writers, and thought-leading tweeters. The problem, though, is that they’re not judged by customers, the market, or nature, instead they’re judged by their peers. I call them meta-preneurs.” At the end the author concluded with this sentence: Don’t get sucked into the meta game. ...

“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 ...