Yorick 🧠

In pursuit of clear thinking and serene living. Software Engineer @ FAANG.

[Yorick 🧠 @BoldPoorYorick]

When someone teaches me something or does something for me without expecting anything in return, I make an effort to never forget

The seed of their kindness forever planted in my heart

[Yorick 🧠 @BoldPoorYorick]

Too many people restrain their potential in the name of family

You can have a hunger for greatness and still have time & respect for your loved ones

You’ll have to sacrifice some but never all

If they truly are your loved ones, your sacrifice will be loved too

[Yorick 🧠 @BoldPoorYorick]

Stability comforts and certainty eases

But I wish to live a life of freedom, passion, creativity, and unrestrained ambition

I wish for my grave to read something other than: “Here lies a man whose future was always certain"

I must embrace uncertainty & instability

[Yorick 🧠 @BoldPoorYorick]

Unresolved issues are just lies to yourself

You’re letting them simmer until the inevitable eruption

[Yorick 🧠 @BoldPoorYorick]

@dailystoic Whether it’s 10,000 hours or 1% every day, the idea is always the same

The idea that humans can change their entire life by trudging through the slow but consistent dedication of just a few minutes a day

[Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv]

If you can imagine this in a way that is respectful and kind: in a sense, my goal in life is to laugh in the face of god. A big, happy, hearty laugh shared between the closest of friends. Children should not live in guilt and fear and shame and anxiety. Existence is hilarious

[Yorick 🧠 @BoldPoorYorick]

Unresolved issues are just lies to yourself

You’re letting them simmer until the inevitable eruption

[christian @cxgonzalez]

stream of consciousness journaling while asking follow up questions from a place of genuine curiosity gets you 90% of the benefits of therapy

[Yorick 🧠 @BoldPoorYorick]

Stability comforts and certainty eases

But I wish to live a life of freedom, passion, creativity, and unrestrained ambition

I wish for my grave to read something other than: “Here lies a man whose future was always certain"

I must embrace uncertainty & instability

[Phil @blisstweeting]

You mind is a graph of concepts with thoughts firing like small lightning bolts across it. Sometimes, thoughts end in conclusions that may be emotionally colored. https://t.co/2Hwp1rvTns

[Yorick 🧠 @BoldPoorYorick]

Started a Telegram channel— to share more of my musings on the way we think & live.

The genuine exploration of our humanity.

https://t.co/eFlO9zxOT1

[Yorick 🧠 @BoldPoorYorick]

Agreed— things like self-help books provide generic, impersonal wisdom. The author's way of living life written to appear definitive.

We're fooled into thinking that if only we follow this one book, life will be perfect.

Think, experiment, act.

Build your own trove of wisdom.

[Yorick 🧠 @BoldPoorYorick]

@TellYourSonThis Become your ideal self; that itself is victory.

[Eternal Truths @OnEternalTruths]

Pain creates.

[𝖀𝖓𝖎𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖆𝖑 𝕴𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖑 @Universal_Intel]

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

- Upton Sinclair

[Yorick 🧠 @BoldPoorYorick]

I admire people who recognize their inherited beliefs and improve on the harmful ones.

They willingly walk into shaky territory, move past tradition, and create their own through repeated experiments and interactions.

A blend of ancestral knowledge and the scientific method.

[Yorick 🧠 @BoldPoorYorick]

We dissect people as if we’re Gods passing righteous judgement.

Nuance is lost on us.

[Yorick 🧠 @BoldPoorYorick]

You wake up everyday to see a reflection of yourself that’s either better or worse than the one from yesterday.

Most days will go by in a daze; the decline will only be noticeable years later.

But luckily for us— we can design a life where the good days outnumber the bad.

[Yorick 🧠 @BoldPoorYorick]

Struggling with discipline is in our nature

We didn’t evolve to read books or build careers so naturally the brain doesn’t optimize for it

Easy to say that we should be productive but to fight too hard against our nature is also a problem

As in all things, balance is key

[Eternal Truths @OnEternalTruths]

Never forget.

Share the fruits of such a plant of kindness with those who require your kindness.

That is the only way to express gratitude.