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These aphorisms are dedicated to people who’ll laugh at least once while reading them. For those who wouldn’t laugh even once, I suggest to re-read them again. If they don’t laugh even then, they are too serious and should be reading something else.

Mad

Pascal’s chilling reflection: “Men are so necessarily mad that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”

– Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

Mirage

Is our consciousness just a mirage?

Heart

Religion is at the heart of science.

Reverse

People should create; tools should verify. We got it all wrong.

Speed

AI is not speeding up production. It’s just removing time to think.

Luck

As Aristotle somewhere put it: luck is when the guy next to you gets hit with the arrow.

No end

No war ever ended. It just temporarily stopped.

Presence

When your brain is constantly occupied with logistics, there isn’t much room left for presence.

– Maia Niguel Hoskin, Ph.D., Medium article

Choice

You can either express yourself and deal with the consequences, or stay quiet forever. Your choice.