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seriousness [1f6de90c]

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  • "I need to know, if I am flesh and bone, or if I am fully grown
  • "Kicked ass, had fun, changed computing forever, didn't cheat" - news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19108460
  • When you can still be wounded and surprised, you still have the capacity to learn
  • Losing the capacity to learn means that you fail to grow
  • On horror - talal asad
  • To be serious is to be able to develop emphathy with the systems you work with
  • A sign of unseriousness is asking chatgpt for anything, being unable to cope with the struggle of learning
  • shallow influentism - twitter.com/hot_girl_spring/status/1800185165513372067
  • everyone reading the same bullshit books
  • Burke's sublime
  • can't avoid horror, you have to find matter out of place, especially for software, because software violates boundaries, how many times have we seen writes-on-the-read-path, abstractions missed, wtfs in irc
  • entire class of people who exist to say no to each other, who sprint to the next blocker (T)PMs,
  • It requires you to care, which is honestly the hardest thing
  • permanent pilgrims
  • avoid productivity fetishism
  • all complex things are the same complex thing, a shallow imitation of thinking