"If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will" - Gregory McKeown

Priority is singular

Data and Reality - William Kent

• data models are techniques for representing information, sufficiently structured and simplistic as to fit well into computer technology
• A model is more than a passive medium for recording our view of reality. it shapes that view, and limits our perceptions. if a mind is committed to a certain model, then it will perform amazing feats of distortion to see things structured that way, and it will simply be blind to the things which dont fit that structure
• language defines experience for us
• Think of a small army of technical personell (also applies to other groups of people and their terminologies and structures and language) who have been indoctrinated in a particular way of conceptualizing data, and who have mastered the intricacies of a new language and the attendant operational procedures.

Ambitious people who go out of their comfort zone often encounter problems. And that’s normal.

“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.” 

– Theodore Rubin

„if you have a job you love, you never have to work a day in your life“

»Der Tourist zerstört, was er sucht, indem er es findet.« Hans Magnus Enzensberger

The Plague - Albert Camus

1. I agreed that it was possible, and he asked me if I were not worried. „the only thing I am interested in“, I said, „is to f my inner peace.“
2. “so we must take the responsibility of acting as though the disease were a plague.“ the form of words was warmly applauded.
3. their first reaction was to blame the authorities.
4. how it is for everyone: you get married, you stay in love a little while and you work. You work so much that you forget to love.
5. dreary struggle between the happiness of each individual and the abstraction of the plague
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