The tide will destroy my sandcastle and it’ll be forgotten, but it can’t take that I did it anyways.
I love this so much.
The tide will destroy my sandcastle and it’ll be forgotten, but it can’t take that I did it anyways.
I love this so much.
Lego Batman. If you haven’t seen it, go; go now.
I’ve always used the version “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.” Didn’t know there were so many ways to say it!
There’s something interesting in here about the persistence of legacy systems that I can’t quite put my finger on. Rest assured I will be consumed by the thought for the remainder of the day.
There was a study done on this kind of mentality. Researches invited pairs of players and before each game flipped a coin to designate one player rich and the other poor. The rich player was then given more money and an easier set of rules. At the end of the game they interviewed the player that inevitably won, and in all cases the players reported that they won because of key decisions they made while playing. Not one mentioned they got lucky with the coin flip.
Summary and interview with a researcher: https://www.marketplace.org/2021/01/19/why-rich-people-tend-think-they-deserve-their-money/amp/
Study (pdf): https://studenttheses.universiteitleiden.nl/access/item%3A2661526/view
The most permanent solution is jank that works.
The ActivityPub protocol! It’s how all these platforms talk to each other.
The Mistle-Tones. It’s so bad, and I love it so much! It’s a family tradition now to get high and watch it every year, and it’s my favorite tradition.