Mental Tools

Suicide As A Success Pattern

by khatzumoto

Since I was a kid, I’ve had an on-and-off, morbid, intellectual fascination with suicide. I can remember being about seven years old, and asking an adult, probably one of my sisters, something along the lines of: “is it possible to kill yourself?”, and she went “yes, it’s called incest I mean suicide”. And it really…

by khatzumoto

To get used to language, you have to kind of embrace a paradox, whereby you: Let go of perfectionism, but you Don’t let go of improvement The way you do that is by picking low-hanging fruit. You let go of things that are too hard for you to figure out right now, but you don’t let…

by khatzumoto

This entry is part 22 of 26 in the series Timeboxing Trilogy

This entry is part 22 of 26 in the series Timeboxing Trilogy Don’t accept anything but the best. Don’t break it down into small pieces. Don’t timebox. Do everything in big time increments. Real work happens in big time increments. Tire yourself out. Don’t stop until you’re bored and hate yourself. Don’t take any shortcuts…

by khatzumoto

If you’re trying to get to point X, then the only people whose opinion matters…the only opinions that matter are those of people who’ve been there. And if no one else has ever been there, then no one else’s opinion matters. It doesn’t matter that they’ve been to point M and you’re still at point…

by khatzumoto

School teaches you how to be a commentator: “Charles Barkley, taking it down the center with a strong GODAN VERB in abrupt-plain form, switches it up to an imperative and he CONJUGAAAAAAAAAAATES!!!”. With AJATT, your body learns to play the sport.

by khatzumoto

In the game of getting used to a language… Try not to have opinions. Opinions are for politicians and voters. Try not to have beliefs. Beliefs are for religions. You’re an engineer. You’re a tinkerer. Tink. Tink. Tink. You have tools. You use tools to construct inevitable fluency — engineered inevitability. There is nothing to…