Marginalia

Chip companies choose their worst chips to put in the variety packs.

If I was better at math, would I have been better at football? Think of the angles.

Let your words do the talking, not the emotions you tie to the words.

Are you saying something because you mean it, or because you want me to think it?

Working 9 to 5 in the 952.

Girl, are you dissonant? Cause I'm sitting here waiting for you to settle.

Just killing the time that's killing us all.

It's literally how you choose to react to something. You don't have to react any certain way — you choose. Some are much better and some are much worse ways to go about it.

I want to go from "I should be a better conversation partner" to "I would prefer to make deeper and richer connections with other people." Conversation also takes some hope and a leap of faith.

Entertainment doesn't necessarily bring happiness. There's a time and place to do what you want; do what you need to do first.

Did Apple make the vibration on their phones less noticeable to make people pick up their phones more? (Written in 2020.)

The first casualty of emotion is reason.

My rock and hard place are called Apathy and Disillusionment. Respectively.

Common sense is limited to the context of the time: if you don't have the ability to look to the past for valuable information, you have less common sense. It's basically what "everyone" knows at that point in time, and that can change within a few hundred years.

It takes money to earn a profit, and it takes (pre-existing?) belief to earn self-love.

You can't possibly know all of the positive impacts you're going to leave on the world.

Why is my mind my own lifelong puzzle to put together that I keep losing the pieces to?

Do zoo animals ever feel déjà vu?

Addiction is self-inflicted incarceration.

Our emotions' motives — or more accurately, their purposes and reasons for happening and impacting — are often multi-faceted, and even deceptive without further assessment.

Movies are exactly what people desire to happen, perfectly, every time. They're designed to connect all the dull moments, the moments in reality that we normally take as passing time. Really, that time is just until you get to another plot point in your life — whatever the next thing someone journaling the story of you would write.

Your head is in a different place when you're lying down. Get up, walk around, see how you feel.

Evil is abhorred unless it can be dissected and utilized.