If you work hard

Karma takes care of you if you are affluent, because if you should know, even Karma is serving the rich.

Moving on, Not giving up, despite the knowledge of the end.

The difference between a tragedy and a drama is that in a tragedy the hero knows the sad ending and knowingly drags toward it, as opposed to a random sudden unexpected heartbreaking outcome. In that sense. life is tragic, not dramatic.

Tragedy of an overachiever

Life for me is a cascade of failures, till your find yourself defenseless against the avalanche. The tipping point has triggered.

The urge to create

I have decided to launch a personal video-blog soon.
I am thinking about what to name it.

some word of wisdom

"The confidentiality of e-mail cannot be secured because the internet is not a secure medium."*

*: at the end of an email I received,

Sucessful, not necessarily happy

Success deals with making objective changes/an actual difference in the material world.
Happiness is a subjective feeling. One can live a jolly happy life but a failure. Sadness and happiness are two apparently different ways of killing time.

Ideas, where art thou?

Literature is ridiculous, too many metaphors, little ideas.
Science is dismal, too many jargons, little ideas.

Sad fact about contemporary life

The ultimate freedom would be if you could elect to extend life, for now, we have to deal with one half of the freedom that we have: to end it.

No commitment means no responsibility

One good thing about life is that you have made no commitment to anyone to "manage" it on. You may choose to.

True but empty: There will be a better day. So what?

If you take the supremum over time of happy days, that is a non-decreasing function.
But the same applies if you take the infimum: your experience of most miserable is also non-increasing. The effect of happiness is temporary, the effect of misery is long lasting.

I once had a dream

Life is too precious. I don't think I deserve it.

"Once upon a time, I wanted to know what love was...

...love is there if you want it to be, you just have to see it is wrapped in beauty and hidden away between seconds of your life. If you don't stop for a minute, you might miss it."

"Cashback", finale

"Having refused the poor what is necessary, they give the rich what is superfluous"

[...] A very common objective is differentiated pricing. This is usually critical to firms that price a product or service not to its cost but to its value to the customer. This is familiar from the world of air travel: you can spend $200 to fly the Atlantic in coach class, $2000 in business class or $5000 in first. Some commentators are surprised by the size of this gap; yet a French economist, Jules Dupuit, had already written in 1849:

"[I]t is not because of the few thousand francs which would have to be spent to put a roof over the third-class carriage or to upholster the third-class seats that some company or other has open carriages with wooden benches . . . What the company is trying to do is prevent the passengers who can pay the second-class fare from traveling third class; it hits the poor, not because it wants to hurt them, but to frighten the rich. And it is again for the same reason that the companies, having proved almost cruel to the third-class passengers and mean to the second-class ones, become lavish in dealing with first-class customers. Having refused the poor what is necessary, they give the rich what is superfluous." *

* (internal) cited from: "De l’influence des p´eages sur l’utilit´e des voies de communicatio", by Jules Dupuit

** cited from: "Why Information Security is Hard – An Economic Perspective", by Ross Anderson

Life, is Life.

Life doesn't betray you, you betray you.