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Isa Lyubimova

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  • I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of …
    Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]
  • Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, "Wait." But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter why she ca…
    Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]
  • But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word "tension." I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of unde…
    Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]
  • Mindful of the difficulties involved, we decided to undertake a process of self purification. We began a series of workshops on nonviolence, and we repeatedly asked ourselves: "Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" "Are you able to endure the ordeal of jail?"
    Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]
  • Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.
    Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]
  • So our next move is to take the entire civil rights struggle – problem – into the United Nations and let the world see that Uncle Sam is guilty of violating the human rights of 22 million Afro - Ameri cans right down to the year of 1964 and still has the audacity or the nerve to stand up and represent himself as the leader of the free world?
    Malcolm-X-The-Ballot-or-the-Bullet.pdf
  • And once we see that all of these other sources to which we've turned have failed, we stop turning to them and turn to ourselves
    Malcolm-X-The-Ballot-or-the-Bullet.pdf
  • And once you and I go into business, we own and operate at least the businesses in our community. What we wi ll be doing is developing a situation, wherein, we will actually be able to create employment for the people in the community.
    Malcolm-X-The-Ballot-or-the-Bullet.pdf
  • The political philosophy of black nationalism only means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community.
    Malcolm-X-The-Ballot-or-the-Bullet.pdf
  • “He’s scared he’s not doing the right thing, and because of the fucked-up world we live in, people who should be in The Hague are giving him twenty million dollars. Something bad is gonna happen here, something really fucking bad is gonna happen.” He sighed. “I just want Zohran’s nonbinary praetorians to march across the country and put all these guys in cuffs.”
    Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss
  • “I’m like Roy. I’m like Trump. We have the same swaggering energy. There is a kind of source code underlying reality, and this is what we understand. Your words have to have wings.
    Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss
  • “They have too much money and nothing going on. They have no swag, no smoke, no motion, no hoes. That’s all you need to know.”
    Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss
  • Many of these people are smart enough that they could answer their own questions, but they want someone else to do it, because then they don’t have to have this terrifying encounter with their own humanity.
    Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss
  • But are humans really so great at exhibiting agency? After all, Cluely managed to raise tens of millions of dollars with a product that promises to take decision-making out of our hands. AI can’t function without instructions from humans, but an increasing number of humans seem incapable of functioning without AI.
    Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss
  • but this was followed by a group rendition of “Landsailor,” a “love song celebrating trucking, supply lines, grocery stores, logistics, and abundance,” which has become part of Valinor’s liturgy: Landsailor Deepwinter strawberry Endless summer, ever spring A vast preserve Aisle after aisle in reach Every commoner made a king.
    Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss
  • After spending slightly too long in the city, I found that the various forms of nonsense all started to bleed into one another. The motionless people drooling on the sidewalk, the Waymos whooshing around with no one inside. A kind of pervasive mindlessness.
    Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss
  • Along all the hundred miles of Georgia’s coast line with its scores of beautiful island and shore beaches, there’s not a single foot where a Negro can stick a toe in salt water.
    "I Was a Negro in the South for 30 Days" - Ray Sprigle - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette · Undercover Reporting
  • Death missed him on a dozen bloody battlefields overseas, where he served his country well. He came home to die in the littered door-yard of his boyhood home because he thought that freedom was for all Americans, and tried to prove it.
    "I Was a Negro in the South for 30 Days" - Ray Sprigle - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette · Undercover Reporting
  • There’s one thing that Jared Buford would like to do. He’d like to vote. Just once. He’s never voted and he’s never tried to vote.
    "I Was a Negro in the South for 30 Days" - Ray Sprigle - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette · Undercover Reporting
  • When do you begin teaching your child how he is to live as a Negro? When do you begin teaching him the difference between black and white -- not as colors but as races? When do you begin teaching him how to live under the iron rule of a master race that regards him as an inferior breed? When do you begin teaching him that for him, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence are scraps of paper?
    "I Was a Negro in the South for 30 Days" - Ray Sprigle - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette · Undercover Reporting
  • In perhaps the most extreme exercise, students were instructed to jump feet first off the diving board, push off the bottom, and swim the entire length of the 25-yard pool. And then back again. Underwater.
    Drownproofing - Georgia Tech
  • “This technique is better and cheaper than any insurance or life-saving gadget a man can buy,” Lanoue once said. “What we’re trying to accomplish is a change from fear of water to respect for the water.”
    Drownproofing - Georgia Tech
  • the joint became the “LA Press Club” and then “The Forty-One Club.” This was during Prohibition, so it may come as no surprise that the last two names the club served as a speakeasy, and were raided regularly by the Feds for serving alcohol.
    Art Deco LA Public Storage Building
  • Advertised as “the most beautiful storage building in the world”, the 13 story tower featured “a roof garden dining salon, a radio broadcast station, a powerful aircraft beacon light, and what is planned as the largest electric sign in the West.”
    Art Deco LA Public Storage Building
  • He even learned to draw upside down in order to sketch for clients from across the table—for the benefit of any white clients who might have been uneasy sitting next to an African American.
    Paul R. Williams - LA Conservancy
  • He designed almost 2,000 homes in Los Angeles alone, many for wealthy businessmen and Hollywood stars. Yet he also designed affordable homes, public housing, and a host of civic, commercial, and institutional buildings.
    Paul R. Williams - LA Conservancy
  • 90 percent of people in their studies don't know how to use CTRL/Command + F to find a word in a document or web page!
    Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F - The Atlantic
  • Every job, every role, every company you go to is an opportunity to learn how a business works and how an industry works. Learn everything you can about the business and the industry in which you find yourself.
    Guide to Career Planning, part 3: Where to go and why
  • Then, once you’ve racked up killer skills and experiences at a high-growth company, feel free to go to a startup. Picking which startup to join probably deserves its own post. However, in a nutshell, look for one where you understand the product, see how it might fit into a very large market, and really like and respect the people who are already there.
    Guide to Career Planning, part 3: Where to go and why
  • it is awfully hard to be highly successful in a job or field in which one is unhappy.
    Guide to Career Planning, part 1: Opportunity
  • I believe you should look at your career as a portfolio of jobs/roles/opportunities.
    Guide to Career Planning, part 1: Opportunity
  • Don’t be one of those people. Life is way too short. The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think.
    Guide to Career Planning, part 1: Opportunity
  • I believe a huge part of what people would like to refer to as “career planning” is being continuously alert to opportunities that present themselves to you spontaneously, when you happen to be in the right place at the right time.
    Guide to Career Planning, part 1: Opportunity
  • You can’t plan your career because you have no idea what’s going to happen in the future. You have no idea what industries you’ll enter, what companies you’ll work for, what roles you’ll have, where you’ll live, or what you will ultimately contribute to the world.
    Guide to Career Planning, part 1: Opportunity
  • At the beginning of this process, it will feel artificial, like you’re socially flailing and trying too hard. Because you will be socially flailing, and trying too hard.
    How to increase your surface area for luck - by Cate Hall
  • The writing doesn’t have to be spectacularly original or particularly literary, it just has to genuinely reflect who you are and what you’re interested in.
    How to increase your surface area for luck - by Cate Hall
  • act with generosity towards others before you know whether it will be reciprocated
    How to increase your surface area for luck - by Cate Hall
  • It is often easier to criticize than it is to synthesize a new position.
    How to think in writing - by Henrik Karlsson
  • It can feel almost embarrassing, revealing your ignorance with as much vulnerability as possible.
    How to think in writing - by Henrik Karlsson
  • stretching a claim thin through an explanation is progress
    How to think in writing - by Henrik Karlsson
  • people really notice when you show up despite it not being a matter of duty or obviously in your self-interest
    How to increase your surface area for luck - by Cate Hall
  • To assume that you’re aiming for a future that will hold you to a much higher standard, even if you’re not currently held to that standard.
    How to increase your surface area for luck - by Cate Hall
  • One distinguishing feature I’ve noticed among people who are unusually successful is that they just try a lot of stuff — socially, intellectually, professionally. It’s the rate of experimentation, the number of shots on goal, that provides the magic, not the percentage of successes, which might be very low at first.
    How to increase your surface area for luck - by Cate Hall
  • the usefulness of the log comes from simple function that the log provides: producing a persistent, re-playable record of history. Surprisingly, at the core of these problems is the ability to have many machines playback history at their own rate in a deterministic manner.
    The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction | LinkedIn Engineering
  • There is a close relationship between source control and databases. Version control solves a very similar problem to what distributed data systems have to solve—managing distributed, concurrent changes in state.
    The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction | LinkedIn Engineering
  • The answer is that logs have a specific purpose: they record what happened and when. For distributed data systems this is, in many ways, the very heart of the problem.
    The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction | LinkedIn Engineering
  • The day your vision, what you think needs to be done, is bigger than what you can do single-handedly, then you have to move toward management. And the bigger the vision is, the farther in management you have to go. If you have a vision of what the whole laboratory should be, or the whole Bell System, you have to get there to make it happen.
    You and Your Research
  • get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one
    You and Your Research
  • I found out many times, like a cornered rat in a real trap, I was surprisingly capable. I have found that it paid to say, ``Oh yes, I'll get the answer for you Tuesday,'' not having any idea how to do it. By Sunday night I was really hard thinking on how I was going to deliver by Tuesday. I often put my pride on the line and sometimes I failed, but as I said, like a cornered rat I'm surprised how often I did a good job. I think you need to learn to use yourself. I think you need to know how to convert a situation from one view to another which would increase the chance of success.
    You and Your Research
  • If you want to do something, don't ask, do it. Present him with an accomplished fact. Don't give him a chance to tell you `No'. But if you want a `No', it's easy to get a `No'.
    You and Your Research