A terrible dream about managing shrimp. Their tank had four functions, water, air, food, and Zoom (to video call the shrimp). It was very stressful because the water button would either flood or completely drain the tank and the air button would turn it into a spa.

I microwaved a chip and when I bit in it creaked like a floorboard

Overnight I leave the driver's door of my car open. That morning I find a pile of white ash on the seat.

A cyclist stopped and singing badly Cameron Winter moaning on about some hairy football arms. Yet another 7-11 tiramisu.

Sliced apple and bread with butter and salt and bread with hummus and salt and hard cheese and Earl Grey tea in a mug with a picture of a cat in a miniskirt playing the French horn for breakfast in the garden.

Dreamt I was teaching a roomful of spies the white person grimace -- "to blend in"

People don't struggle to struggle, they just struggle. In the same way; you don't have to struggle to sit, you can just sit. If someone hands you a blurry photograph, do you try to bring the subject into focus?

Being bad at liking stuff is not something to brag about. Relatedly, the paradox of hedonism is just a skill issue. As with most skill issues, it can be overcome through autism (see Lu Yu et al.).

People stop finding new favourite things (e.g. music) as they get older because they get rusty at finding new favourite things. If they just spent more time finding new favourite things, they wouldn't have so much trouble finding new favourite things.

In the future, you'll be able to carbon date people by seeing which social skills they've failed to develop, since this tells you how old they were during covid.

Epigrams are source code. Explanations are compiled binary.

Free career advice:

1. Find a genius and help them. Even if they're not a genius, realising that will save you a lot of time.

2. If you're stuck doing something you don't want to be doing, practice being great at it. Being great at things is a skill in itself, separate from whatever object-level thing you're great at.

3. All advice is a form of confession.

Fanfiction version of the Macy conferences where it's the exact same in every way but Henry Kissinger is there.

A meme from the future: "actually, being trans is retvrning to tradition, it's just being gay that's WEIRD"

henosis/theosis -> Chardin's Omega Point -> NGE fanta -> Silicon Valley transhumanists. Sad!