When faced with an issue, especially if it’s an external stimulus for self-reflection, but even if it’s just something that occurred to you, or something that you found out as a revelation, be first selfish, then selfless.
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You get to a point in a project where you can no longer make progress doing it a certain way. Sometimes you figure it out yourself, sometimes a colleague has to tell you. What do you do with all the energy you’ve invested in doing it the original way? [...] I write a lot of things on MetaFilter. I’ve sort of settled on it because I like and respect the moderators there and I think that many of the posters/commenters there really have decided, despite differences, to try to discuss things in good faith, civilly and without too much trolling. I wrote a short essay [...] Changes… [...] I’m working on a semi-secret project (it’s not actually hidden, I’m just not being all that specific about it because it’s not really ready for prime time, but you can probably find out about it via Google and Whois soon). It’s about Taoism, books, activism, life, work, etc, and I’m taking advantage of my self-imposed [...] As both an activist and a warrior, you cannot afford to work only on instinct. There must be a method and a direction. You should keep in mind prinicples of compassion and honor as well as try to keep your long term strategy and medium term tactics in mind. The more competent and long-lived warriors [...] |
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