TIL about LoRa (Long Range) radio, a type of decentralized technology that can be used to communicate without cellular networks, Wi-Fi, internet, etc and without using much energy lilygo.cc/collections/...

An immense flaw in the prevailing strain of Western pedagogy to me is that people are often being taught entirely by copying existing ideas, ones that they have been assured to assume are ostensibly economically or socioculturally "successful", in the pursuit of hastily developing a practical skill

Techbros are nauseating to listen to and philosophybros are nauseating to listen to but there is a relatively new rise of the fusion of the two that is somehow even worse in a unique way

In order to understand power, you must understand leverage

Put together a 12000ish USD home computer setup using only about 400ish USD this summer :)

I should be allowed to spell all words that end in *illed as *ilt

Every five years, I think to myself, "Wow, I was such an idiot five years ago"

"Trust is a judgement of unquestionable utility - as humans we use it every day of our lives. However, trust has suffered from an imperfect understanding, a plethora of definitions, and informal use in the literature and in everyday life. It is common to say "I trust you, " but what does that mean?"

Movement usually requires a combination of push factors and pull factors

Guy that goes to the local talent show and then gets mad after finding out that everyone has actually brought their skills and not their talents

I love to be asked for what I want

Time and a half dsc.uci.edu/accommodatio...

Time & tide

5 years is the local minimum trough for cringe 10 years is the local maximum crest for cool

Illiterate scribe

I love to change my mind

Headspace implies the existence of headtime

Maybe I should have just done med school

You never really know when it might be the last "goodbye"

I would love to live in a port city

Cellular screaming

Synchronized dreaming

I get closer to snapping my phone in half and becoming a hermit in a cave off the grid every day

Feeling spacesick 🤮

Feeling timesick 🤮

There should be better words to describe the feeling of going to bookmark something but then being pleasantly surprised to find that I have already bookmarked it before

The harsh reality is that American people are generally much more socially conservative & intolerant than expected (sometimes consciously or sometimes subconsciously)

I think that I generally do not get too easily embarrassed anymore but having to apologize on someone else's behalf is genuinely embarrassing in a unique way

Smile! You're on camera :)

Sunlight filtered through trees

I want to learn how to do a kickflip 🛹

I love to ask for advice

Compressing conviction into the edge of a knife ;;; I will slice through time itself

Echolocation is a top 5 superpower

There is something uniquely scary about the combination of ruthless force & surgical precision

Balancing my lack of adequate sleep on the weekdays by not being able to fall asleep on the weekends

I like to process things in serial, and I do not like to process things in parallel

I am about 5 personal crises away from ruin and about 10 personal triumphs away from greatness

Helmet laws for motorcyclists should be on the same level as seat belt laws

I am unfortunately easily baited

Clear the canvas, and begin anew

One day, I hope to eat a pear that is on par with my favorite apples 🍐🤝🍎

Very rarely in my life have I encountered the tragedy of eating a truly bad bagel However, today is that day

Despite everything, I still have hope in the possibility of a future Internet with open access to accurate information, free expression, and progressive communities

It is funny that ISO8601 rigorously figured out that the best ways to internationally express date & time are yyyymmdd and hhmmss.sss in 1988 but many countries (such as the US) still have not yet properly adopted it in industry or added it to grade school curricula en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

**I** > *I* > EYE

Email should not be used as a medium for group conversations

It is deeply annoying to have to give out my personal phone number to people that do not need access to my personal phone number

You either kill a good extended metaphor early, or you let it live long enough to see it weaken your overall point