Writings

• Drone
  A moment before the alarm clock wakes up the day to play the radio, there is a very quick hum that precedes it, almost imperceptible, and only those who are already awake before the alarm goes off can hear it.
• Batteries Included
  Each human eye initially transmits upside-down images to the brain, which in turn, rotates these images to the way that we understand and remember them. Everything we see is actually turned 180 degrees, all the time.
• Give or Take
  Einstein's formula, E=mc², says that energy (E) is equal to mass (m) multiplied by the speed of light (c), multiplied again by the speed of light (c). Within each atom is energy that can be released.
• Costly Interruptions
  I wake up every morning knowing exactly what I need to do for that day. I go to bed every night knowing exactly what I'd forgotten to do for that day. Somewhere in between, I got greedy, arrogant, lazy, or all of the above and more.
• I Hunt the Android in Me
  ...the risk faced by Deckard and other humans in the novel lies in realizing that they already are android-like, so long as they define their subjectivity based on the logical, rational, calculating part of human being.
• The Least
  At the end of the program, Diane Sawyer specifically mentioned that yes, the show is being televised on Good Friday. She mentioned that Jesus was known to have walked and talked with prostitutes, as well as thieves and beggars, and anyone else who were, in a word, stuck.
• Call Me Ozymandias
  Calculation is me reading books on something, then taking classes to get better on that same thing, then teaching classes on it, doing surveys on it, making money on it, then winning awards about it, and spending more time on it than anyone else. Then thinking that because I did all this, my advice will be better than anyone else's.
• Ten-Minute Jolt
  Take out envy, take out greed. Take out ten minutes of each day.

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