We live in a vulnerable world. The problem is that you cannot selectively numb emotions. You can’t say, here’s the bad stuff. Here is vulnerability, here is grief, here is shame, here is fear, here is disappointment. I don’t want to feel these. I’m going to have a couple of beers and a banana nut muffin. […] You can’t numb those hard feelings without numbing the other affects, our emotions. You cannot selectively numb. So when we numb those, we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness. And then, we are miserable, and we looking for purpose and meaning.

I just have some questions for those of you in therapy. Whats the point in healing. Now I just have a more expansive vocabulary to describe how fucked up I am, but I still feel fucked up.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Los defectos de lo antiguo son la nostalgia del futuro. (hablando de los errores en IA. Por ej, los glitches de vcr)

The artist may not always be the maker. It may be the person who sees the piece and recognize the art in it.

Pero yo palante. Palante vamoh, terriblemente palante.