“Too many people confuse or conflate wealth with power and intelligence.” #life #failure
Drink water, take time for yourself, stay balanced. #life
Etiquette tip: If you’re at a restaurant, even for lunch, don’t crank up the volume on your phone speaker while you watch a video. #life #failure
The Apple Watch needs a “dead man” switch app, that triggers and notifies people when/if you die by sensing lack of a heartbeat. #apple #watch #ios #life
Channel your emotions constructively, regardless of how you “feel”. #life #success
Don’t be complacent. #life
How many new friends did you make last year? What is your average number of new friends per year? #life
Education and marketing are two sides of the same coin. Propaganda is the edge. #life #failure
People hate when you ignore or shrug off their insults. #life #success
If your mind wanders, set it free. #life #success
Letting the cat out of the bag is the humane thing to do. #cat #life
Things you name applies a mental and perceptual filter to those things, obscuring the reality. #life #tao
Whenb one believes what one is told, thought has been subverted. #life #failure
If you think starting is hard, then you’ve never written anything. Stopping is much harder. #writing #life
Remember when people had bookshelves full of encyclopaedias, but never read them? #life #failure
“If you don’t stand up for what you believe, you really don’t believe.” #writing #life
Do you smile in a group photo because someone says, “Smile!”? Or are you the grumpy one? #life #character #writing
Back in my day, I used Compuserve, Delphi, and AOL. Now? I don’t use anything because it uses me. #life #failure #technology
What’s the silliest part of your life? Do you enjoy it or the silliness? #life
Humans align other humans to themselves. Rarely, do they align with others, unless they want something. #life #failure
How many friends are too many? How many enemies are too many? Which would you rather have? Would you rather have friends or people who are loyal to you? #life
Justification isn’t ability or permission. #life
Dread comes from the imagination. #life #writing
Absolutism and certainty are failure. #life
How many years do you have left? How many successes and failures will you experience in that time? Will you do something about it or just accept what comes? #life