Juan

Being an adult is great, because you get to do whatever you want. Unfortunately, what you mostly want to do is zone out while you watch the same show you've seen for the 30th time because you are so fucking tired all the time.

It's weird that philosophers are put in the position of having to justifying philosophy. I feel like the people who say "we never need to try to think about things philosophically again, we've got it all solved, so shut up" are the ones who should have to justify themselves.

Albert Camus: "I could have a cup of coffee, or I could kill myself. I guess I'll have the coffee. Jeff Bezos: "I could have a cup of coffee, or I could eradicate world hunger. I guess I'll have the coffee."

The funny thing about Kafka is if the same books were written in the USSR they'd teach them as a devastating critique of Communism, but since they were about the dehumanizing forces of industrial capitalism, everyone's just like "it's about how life is absurd, no politics here!"

"as everyone knows" - smug - implies you only have common knowledge - easy to counter "as all those who are counted among the wise know" - mysterious - implies you possess secret knowledge - any counter will draw into suspicion whether or not they are counted among the wise

Evening Habits of Highly Successful People: • they neglect their family • they're unhappy

turns out you first need a life to have a work/life balance issue

Russian literature is amazing because really makes you understand what it is like to be one of those people who can't remember anyone's name and is confused all the time.

Capitalism efficiently allocates resources according to our needs and wants. You can tell because people die of poverty for not being able to afford their insulin while we spend hundreds of millions of dollars making new Spiderman movies every year.

Late November. Somewhere Raskolnikov is sitting quietly at his desk. Sharpening his wits. Then his pencil. Then his ax.

What can we know? Socrates: our own ignorance. Descartes: that we exist. Kant: our perceptions. Nietzsche: nothing. not even ourselves. we are dumb as shit you guys.

Mathematics provides a framework for dealing precisely with “what is.” Computation provides a framework for dealing precisely with “how to”.

There is more truth in the mask we wear, in the game we play, the fiction we obey and follow, than in what is concealed beneath the mask.

"At any moment there is only a fine layer between the 'trivial' and the impossible. Mathematical discoveries are made in this layer." -- Andrey Kolmogorov