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

— Heraclitus
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.
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.
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.
Yesterday’s tasks remain for today.
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.
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.
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.
Listen to the silence in between the notes and you’ll hear the music better.
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.
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.
In the place that anxiety now occupies in the atmosphere of your mind, you could have curiosity instead—curiosity, specifically, about what might happen.
Derek Parfit on the effect that understanding the fact that there’s no unique and unchanging self—the lack of a sort of serial number to us that remains fixed in time—had on his outlook on life in general (quote from his book “Reasons and Persons”).
The slower I start the day the better it seems to go.
Priorities, for real.
Not sure why this is happening in your case, but Firefox works fine on my end. Maybe a driver issue or an extension is messing things up?
Imagine the day when you can doomscroll just sitting on your bed, eyes closed, not moving a muscle. That'll be the day!
Yeah, it's nuts, almost super-human actually.

I'd be surprised if the majority of people have read one tenth of what Asimov has written.
Isaac Asimov was one of the most prolific writers in history. Most people know him from the Foundation series, I Robot, and other works of science fiction, but he wrote more than 500 books in his lifetime.

Here’s how he, in his own words, was able to be so prolific.
Nihilism and addiction go hand in hand, because if nothing really matters, hedonism becomes very attractive. Conversely, acquiring a sense of meaning is necessary for overcoming addiction.
I like it. Where are you hosting the photos?
My OCD brain is having a melt down looking at this.
Considering those requirements, a Pixel is still probably the best bet.