Matthew

“To precommit is to choose now to limit your options later, preventing yourself from making the wrong choice in the face of temptation. Publicly announcing your goal is a common form of precommitment.”
― Nick Winter, The Motivation Hacker

“One thing at a time. Most important thing first. Start now.”
― Caroline Webb, How To Have A Good Day: The Essential Toolkit for a Productive Day at Work and Beyond

“there. Of course, the DPRK purposely infantilized its citizens, making everyone helpless and powerless so that they depended on the state.”
― Suki Kim, Without You, There Is No Us: My secret life teaching the sons of North Korea’s elite

“There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may well escalate, but beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself. Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is innately media-related. The Panther Moderns differ from other terrorists precisely in their degree of self-consciousness, in their awareness of the extent to which media divorce the act of terrorism from the original sociopolitical intent …”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer