25lines, redux

“The problem with you hackers is you never stop working.” “That’s what a hacker is.”

“It isn’t necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you to be unmasked, it can do no other, it will writhe before you in ecstasy.”

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself [...]

dichotomy: day job vs. my job. dichotomy: work vs. life balance dichotomy: my view on things vs. most peoples. dichotomy: my aspirations vs. those of the people around me dichotomy: a meaningful relationship vs. a meaningful purpose i wrote the following junior year, while in the Kendall Marriott. sf had already gone to bed, haha. [...]

an anthem for the nation of the future the empire inertia is terrible. in work. in family. in relationships. in life. my neck writhes uncontrollably in step with each bar. pressure and release, the most fundamental dichotomy in my life.

to speak freely, without fear of misinterpretation. to realize the pain of misunderstanding. to know self-inflicted pain, and profound regret. all for what? misunderstood words, not easily corrected.