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Robert Sheng

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  • “An ability to tolerate the anxiety generated by ambiguity is what allows us to respect, engage, and grow from our repeated, daily encounters with the essential mysteries of life. But the payoff goes even further. Certainty begets stagnation, but ambiguity pulls us deeper into life. Unchallenged conviction begets rigidity, which begets regression; but ambiguity opens us to discovery, complexity, and therefore growth. The health of our culture, and the magnitude of our personal journeys, require that we learn to tolerate ambiguity, in service to a larger life.”
    the true shape of a thing - by Ava - bookbear express
  • trade deficit in advanced technology products? This deficit is accelerating, growing from $128 billion in 2019, to $195 billion in 2021, to $244 billion in 2022.3 In 2021, the United States accounted for 78 percent of the total trade deficit among industrial nations, while China accounted for 45 percent of the total trade surplus.4 Productivity in manufacturing in the United States, across most measures, has actually been declining.
    America’s Advanced Manufacturing Problem—and How to Fix It - American Affairs Journal
  • incentives tend to benefit large corporations rather than the small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that are the backbone of U.S. manufacturing. The government can offer similar tax credits to SMEs that invest a certain percentage of revenue to upskilling their employees. Additionally, changing investment regulations can make the availability of capital easier and less expensive for companies that reshore production.
    Reshoring and Restoring U.S. Manufacturing
  • Like making a tie-dye T-shirt, the twists and turns of childhood shape the way we’re colored as adults.
    How Bad Habits Are Formed (Unconsciously)
  • Patterns that are formed out of necessity in an earlier stage of life determine what you look for for the rest of your life. The behaviors you were forced to do when you were younger become the behaviors you itch to do when you’re older.
    How Bad Habits Are Formed (Unconsciously)
  • But the fact that the unconscious prefers avoiding verbal instructions pretty much altogether—even where they would appear to be quite useful—suggests rather strongly that it doesnt much like language and even that it doesnt trust it.
    The Kekulé Problem - Nautilus
  • Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, and I really wish somebody had told this to me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But it’s like there is this gap. For the first couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making isn’t so good. It’s not that great. It’s trying to be good, it has ambition to be good, but it’s not that good. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is good enough that you can tell that what you’re making is kind of a disappointment to you. A lot of people never get past tha…
    On Taste
  • To be loved is to be changed. The people we love shape our language, our thoughts and our choices. We can’t learn security in a vacuum. Independence won’t save us from having to depend on others.
    to be loved is to be changed - by Ava - bookbear express
  • When you find the right thing, it will feel right. You will feel love, and you will feel loved, and it won’t be this tormented half thing. It won’t be a relationship that always leaves you feeling undercut. You won’t need to overthink it or manipulate a thousand different things to make it go right. It will have a momentum of its very own. You might be baffled by the momentum or overwhelmed by it, but you will know that it’s right.
    the right thing for you will not feel wrong all the time
  • if you’re in the right relationship, you probably won’t be second-guessing it all the time in the back of your mind. Simple but radical, right? And yet it’s so hard to believe. What if it’s the right person but not the right time? What if I’m too immature to realize? Fuck that noise. If it’s the right thing, you will want to stay. You will not always, always, always think about leaving.
    the right thing for you will not feel wrong all the time
  • you have to pay attention to the signals you’ve been ignoring forever and forever. Does this thing feel hard, or does it feel wrong? Are there obvious rewards? Do you feel loved and supported?
    the right thing for you will not feel wrong all the time
  • something being hard is different from something being wrong for you. When something is hard, you might be incredibly uncertain about the outcome, but you’re probably confident in the path, both the day-to-day process of it and the value and the joy. When it’s wrong, it’s out of whack with your basic needs.
    the right thing for you will not feel wrong all the time
  • Writing clarifies your own ideas. Writing begets new ideas too. Writing lets you explore ideas in depth even if you won’t have time to act on them all. Writing shows people how you think and lets them decide if they agree, if they respect you, and if maybe you’re the kind of person they’d want to ask out for coffee or spend years working with.
    Writer-Builders - by Anu - Working Theorys
  • Programs should be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
    Hackers and Painters
  • Relentlessness wins because, in the aggregate, unseen details become visible. When people walk by the portrait of Ginevra de Benci, their attention is often immediately arrested by it, even before they look at the label and notice that it says Leonardo da Vinci. All those unseen details combine to produce something that's just stunning, like a thousand barely audible voices all singing in tune.
    Hackers and Painters
  • hackers start original, and get good, and scientists start good, and get original.
    Hackers and Painters
  • If you want to make money, you tend to be forced to work on problems that are too nasty for anyone to solve for free.
    Hackers and Painters
  • A programming language is for thinking of programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.
    Hackers and Painters
  • I've found that the best sources of ideas are not the other fields that have the word "computer" in their names, but the other fields inhabited by makers. Painting has been a much richer source of ideas than the theory of computation.
    Hackers and Painters
  • What hackers and painters have in common is that they're both makers. Along with composers, architects, and writers, what hackers and painters are trying to do is make good things.
    Hackers and Painters
  • When I finished grad school in computer science I went to art school to study painting. A lot of people seemed surprised that someone interested in computers would also be interested in painting. They seemed to think that hacking and painting were very different kinds of work
    Hackers and Painters
  • Good men, and they are the only persons who are worth considering, will think of these things truly as they happened.
    Crito by Plato
  • but there is another evil: people who do not know you and me will believe that I might have saved you if I had been willing to give money, but that I did not care.
    Crito by Plato
  • For this fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good
    The Internet Classics Archive | Apology by Plato
  • And is not attention always designed for the good or benefit of that to which the attention is given?
    Euthyphro by Plato
  • Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them.
    Euthyphro by Plato
  • and that he too had punished his own father (Uranus) for a similar reason, in a nameless manner. And yet when I proceed against my father, they are angry with me. So inconsistent are they in their way of talking when the gods are concerned, and when I am concerned
    Euthyphro by Plato
  • But I have a benevolent habit of pouring out myself to everybody, and would even pay for a listener, and I am afraid that the Athenians may think me too talkative.
    Euthyphro by Plato