New posts from Oct. 22, 2025

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Seneca

It’s all in your head. You have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

William James

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Cody Sanchez

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Because the secret to lasting success isn’t one giant leap. It’s millions of little steps.

Epictetus

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Matthew Butterick

On the web, though most of today’s web browsers support CSS-based columns, as a design tool they’re not that useful. Practically speaking, columns need to fit inside a fixed vertical space. But by its nature, a web page has an indefinite bottom edge. Still, columns can be useful in situations where you have a small amount of text or a list of links that can fit on a browser single screen. See system fonts for an example of this technique.

Rosie Spinks

…by quirk of history, technology, and privilege, [we] simply know too much about the world. As humans, we were never supposed to live with this much optionality embedded into our psyche. People didn’t used to see the myriad obligations of their lives as opportunity costs, but rather as the unavoidable work of being alive.