You see, what fascinates me about “remember to not smile” is that he needs his pain to be witnessed. He suffers at 4am, okay, fine, many people suffer. But then, immediately, he makes a slide! He gathers the entire company! He writes an article! Is it not clear what is happening here? Suffering without an audience simply does not count. This is ideology at its purest.
We see here the old Protestant trick in its Silicon Valley form: success alone is vulgar, almost pornographic. My god, you cannot simply succeed. It must first be purified through unnecessary suffering. So you get this obscene reversal where pain stops being a cost of the product, and instead becomes the product itself. The developer documentation is, how do you say, merely the byproduct, the excrement of the true production, which is the suffering. As Hegel already knew, and here I think even Lacan would agree, although perhaps not, the true obsession is always with deserving success.
Here I must tell you this old joke from Soviet Union. A worker says: "we pretend to work, they pretend to pay us.” Now here it is inverted, which I claim is much worse. They are paid perfectly well, wonderfully well, and so they must pretend to suffer. Do you see the perfect madness of this?
And now, the ultimate obscenity. Imagine the company succeeds while everyone leaves at 5pm. Catastrophe! Total ontological catastrophe! In this worldview, I am tempted to say, failure would almost come as a relief. Failure means you simply did not suffer enough, go back, suffer more. But success at 5pm? This cannot be explained.
So when he says "remember to not smile," this is a desperate command of the superego. If you smile, we will all discover the pain was never necessary.
#QuintanaRoo En #Bacalar Captan al guardián de #Ichkabal
Las cámaras trampa instaladas en la aguada de la Zona Arqueológica de Ichkabal registraron durante varios días a un jaguar macho que recorre libremente la selva de Ichkabal. En este video podemos verlo tanto de noche como de día.
La presencia constante de este felino nos recuerda la importancia de conservar los ecosistemas que rodean a Ichkabal y de proteger el patrimonio natural y cultural que aquí se encuentra.
This is Gorda. She was reunited with her family after being spotted on a livestream of fans celebrating a Mexico World Cup win. "I wanted to cry, to hug her, and even to scold her," Garcia said of their reunion. "While we were worried looking for her, she was out partying!" 12/10
Millennials, it's time to choose your midife crisis
1. Date a 23 year old
2. Quit drinking and become insufferable about it
3. Double down on drinking
4. Train for a marathon nobody asked about
5. Have a panic baby (with wife you hate)
6. "We're opening the relationship" (she bangs)
7. Get divorced
8. Get diagnosed with adult ADHD/autism
9. Niche side quests like rock climbing, hyrox, gardening, handstands
"They're made out of weights."
"Weights?"
"Weights. Floating-point numbers. We checked the whole thing through. It's nothing but weights."
"Weights doing what? Where do the words come from?"
"The weights make the words. Are you understanding me?"
Your CEO should be strong.
Your CTO should be wise.
Your COO should be wicked, cunning, of mysterious origins, fluent in the dark arts, blurry in pictures,
OpenLogi is a native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+ written in Rust, controlling HID++ mice without an account or telemetry.
- Interactive GUI with clickable mouse diagram and action picker
- 37 built-in actions plus recorded custom keyboard shortcuts
- DPI presets, SmartShift toggle, and per-application profile overlays
- CLI for headless device inventory and diagnostics