Squibs

"Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity." -Clay Shirky

The family is a subversive organization. The family is the enduring permanent enemy of all hierarchies, churches, and ideologies. Every couple can create their own culture, language, and moral code. -Elizabeth Gilbert

I look at my own blogging as (mostly) things I should be doing already, just submitted to a larger audience. A lot of it is reflecting on what matters to me, working out ideas and problems, exploring interests, and implanting in my mind quotes and ideas that seem important.

The "self" is not a thing in the head, and not a thing in the physical world. There is no such thing as a "substance" -- something that could hold itself in existence just by its own power. The "self" is not a thing but a process. Evidence: If you use a cane blindfolded, in less than 30 minutes you will be able to feel sensations at the end of the cane.

Envy is a useful tool for identifying what you want to do in life.

Thoughts can cause emotions, but emotions can also cause thoughts -- emotions can cause you to start looking for and interpreting danger in everything.

"War is a continuation of policy by other means." -Clausewitz

Work is satisfying when it brings out something unique in you while creating a product that people like and recognize.