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Founder discuit.org. Open-source maintainer. Works with Go, JS/TS, and Linux (btw). Interested in philosophy and history. Writes at previnder.com.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 9d

“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.”

— Heraclitus

Previnder @previnder.com · 9d

In other words, taking pleasure in the activity of the pursuit itself regardless of whatever future it may lead to is the only way to do something well for a long period of time.

Mere discipline or will is not enough.

Previnder @previnder.com · 9d

What can reliably keep one engaged in a pursuit for a long period of time—for years and years—is a love for the pursuit itself.

Previnder @previnder.com · 9d

Motivation provided by alluring images of possible distant futures is great at the beginning of a pursuit, but it's not nearly enough to sustain that pursuit once it’s begun.

Previnder @previnder.com · 10d

Yesterday’s tasks remain for today.

Previnder @previnder.com · 10d

None of this—all that surrounds me—is in any way, ordinary; every bit of it, in fact, is wonderfully absurd. And how few who are truly conscious of this wonderful absurdity.

Previnder @previnder.com · 10d

The fact that I’m alive in this moment, that there is a universe, that there is life in it, when instead there could have been nothing—not even the emptiness of empty space—is the most fundamental, incomprehensible, unfathomable mystery there is.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 10d

Nothing baffles me more than the fact that people just seem to go about their lives everyday with no apparent consciousness of the sheer incomprehensible mystery that is existence.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 13d

Listen to the silence in between the notes and you’ll hear the music better.

Previnder @previnder.com · 14d

In fact, this is always the nature of everything we do, as the future, though probabilities could be assigned to things that might happen, is still fundamentally unknown to us.

Previnder @previnder.com · 14d

Rather than expecting a particular outcome to come about, attend to everything as if it were an experiment, with the simple curiosity of wanting to know what might result.

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Previnder @previnder.com · 14d

In the place that anxiety now occupies in the atmosphere of your mind, you could have curiosity instead—curiosity, specifically, about what might happen.

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