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Happiness is the state you enter when you no longer want to change your state.
However, happiness is fleeting because a new desire always comes along. As Caed Budris says, “Happiness is the space between one desire being fulfilled and a new desire forming.” Likewise, suffering is the space between craving a change in state and getting it.
An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
I’m actually using GPT3 in a production system. The mistake people are making is they are asking “how can I use this to automate a smart person’s job”, when they should be asking “what would I do if I had unlimited dumb people”
Unlike Most People on Twitter, I’m Actually Using GPT3 In...
Zack Korman
Anti-ageing is a disappointing pursuit. It has been since Ponce de Léon went searching for the Fountain of Youth and found Florida. There is no point at which the anti-ageing will have worked – when you look in the mirror and say, “I’ve done it! I’m anti-aged!” Once you buy into the concept of anti-ageing, you buy in forevermore.
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Jessica DeFino
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