Movies
- jeen-yhus
- Sonic 2
Books
- The Dark Forest // Liu Cixin
- Death’s End // Liu Cixin
- The Deep Places // Ross Douthat
- Amusing Ourselves to Death // Neil Postman
- Recursion // Blake Crouch
- Crossroads // Jonathan Franzen
New Music
- Radical // Every Time I Die
- Prioritize Pleasure // Self Esteem
- Fortitude // Gojira
- Metamorphosis // Cloud Cult
- The Fall of Ideals // All That Remains
- Welcome to Horrowwood // Ice Nine Kills
- WE // Arcade Fire
- Will of the People // Muse
- Fred again…
- Harry Mack
- Midnights // Taylor Swift
- Alpha Zulu // Phoenix
Old Music
- Blink-182 // Blink-182
- A Wilhelm Scream
- Muse
New Songs
- Snowblood // ERRA
- Danielle (smile on my face) // Fred again…
- Yellowjacket // Spiritbox
- Funeral Derrangements // Ice Nine Kills
- You Forever // Self Esteem
- Into the Storm // Gojira
- Victor // Cloud Cult
- Lady of the Hill // Cloud Cult
- This Calling // All That Remains
- Empty Inside // All That Remains
- Lightning // Charli XCX
- Callum is a Snake // Bloc Party
- The Age of Anxiety I // Arcade Fire
- Unconditional II // Arcade Fire
- Boss Rhythm // Bicep
- Closing Sequence // Bicep
- What a Life // Scarlet Pleasure
- The Liars Club // Coheed and Cambria
- We’ll Be Back // Megadeth
- Rainy Day // Ice Nine Kills
- Ready for the Floor // Hot Chip
- Ghosts (how can I move on) // Muse
- We are Fucking Fucked // Muse
- Just Friends // Virgina to Vegas
- Talking to Yourself // Carly Rae Jepsen
- Bejewelled // Taylor Swift
- Looking for Somebody // The 1975
- All Eyes on Me // Phoenix
Old Songs
- The Kids Can Eat a Bag of Dicks // A Wilhelm Scream
- Phantom Part 2 // Justice
- Without Prejudice // Protest the Hero
- The Fireside // Protest the Hero
- Hyper Music // Muse
- Scarecrow // Strung Out
- All You Had to Do Was Stay // Taylor Swift
- Summit // Skrillex
Ideas
- One thing at once
- More time doesn’t change the fact that mindlessness is easier than being mindful, that relaxation is easier than determined concentration. What can change, though, is a mentality about what can be done in short periods of time. Hard stuff requires a getting ready for in a way that easy stuff does not. So when the window is small, we feel justified in caving to easy. How can I read a book when I only have a minute? I’ll just check my phone… Reject this! Reading isn’t hard. Stop thinking it is. Stop thinking you have to get into something. Not worth committing if I can’t really sit down. No. No way. You have trained yourself to be soft. You can train yourself to be hard.
- If it is true that a woman will let you know she’s interested without explicitly saying so, the inverse is also true: a disinterested woman will let you know she doesn’t like you without explicitly saying so.
- Sure, I still think moderation is possible, but I think the number who can do it well is rapidly diminishing as more and more and more stuff is tossed in the “Requires Discipline” bucket. Because while you may properly control your impulses with drinking, you have to fight that same battle on the tv, phone, porn, gambling, and food fronts as well. A safe haven simply doesn’t exist in 2022. Thus it’s a minor miracle if you only capitulate a few times in a day.
- If you want to rapidly increase wisdom, you must be willing to jump from one thing to something totally different. This only works, though, if you truly commit to the first thing before switching. For if the knowledge that you’ll never be anywhere for all that long leads to ambivalence, so many of the gains from doing a bunch of things is lost: you never, actually, did anything. Not all that well, at least.
- Something close to 100% of romantic comedies would be DOA without a protagonist telling a dumb lie.
- don’t ever check your phone on an elevator
- Wanna be filled with love? Give yourself permission to not compete.
- You don’t need others to survive or even to thrive; you need them to maximally thrive.
- How old do you think I am? The answer is always 2-5 years younger than the person actually thinks: nobody is trying to get this answer precisely correct.
- The compulsion to check the midterm results has been strong. But I see it clearly. The compulsion is not a desire to understand the world better or to appreciate the complexity of governing and lawmaking. No. It is simply a desire to check the score, to be entertained and, possibly, validated. I’m not craving deep knowledge; knowledge is hard, and few crave that which is hard. I crave what is easy. By not giving in, though, cravings subside and I can more easily allocate my time in ways my future-self will celebrate.
- Buy experiences is henceforth amended to Buy experiences. Don’t forget that “experiences” may include physical things, especially when the physical thing improves one’s performance in an underlying activity.
- if you only want to follow the wisdom because you think it will get you something, the wisdom won’t prove all that wise.