Scrapbook

We exist in the minds of other people, in thousands of memory clusters, and one by one those clusters fade and disappear.

Twitter

If you don’t like your work, change it. If you don’t like your life, fix it.

If you only say what definitely won’t get you mocked, attacked and ridiculed, things will get dull. 

– alaindebotton

For those of us whose bodies seem like a burden or an ontological prison, the Internet functions as a utopia of sorts.

General law of friction for the internet: it should not be easier to “share” an action online than to do it.

– jathansadowski

See also the paper

Tweets are to literature as Lego is to architecture. Enough. 

– alaindebotton

“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”

—- Haruki Murakami

He had deceived himself with the belief that because he had thought of something once, he could recall it anytime.

Ideas are tremendously difficult to bring to life, especially at scale, when you lack the means, and the patience (to build up the means).