Alexander

Patterns of nature

The ordering of nature is an art akin to music—fugues in shell and cartilage, counterpoint in fibers and capillaries, throbbing rhythm in waves of sound, light, and nerve. Alan Watts / The Joyous Cosmology

A free tip for those in the corporate world: if you're ever asked to complete an 'engagement survey' or something similar (supposedly anonymous), never criticize. They always find out. For a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

“Have you stopped beating your wife?” [ ] YES [ ] NO This is the quality of most polls on X

I know that a fair chunk of the population has no sense of humor—no idea that there are people in the world trying to entertain them. William Zinsser

Full day of work. Utterly alone at the end

“How do you know I'm mad?” said Alice. “You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn't have come here.”

Olive tutorial

Thank you for your music

X Orders of Magnitude Exponential growth really affects the minds of X inhabitants and causes wild metamorphoses. X accounts approaching one thousand followers feel unusually generous and send credits left and right. Those nearing ten thousand start regular YouTube Shorts and…

Listen, my friends! There's really no need to bow down before me like that. I'm just like all of you, only better. How I Shook Up One Company Daniil Kharms

The most unreliable part of modern electronics is the electrolytic capacitor. If something stops functioning, check those first.