Some things I’ve learned during my 40 years on Earth. I’m not including scientific/technical stuff, just everyday stuff; I’m also not including skills, manners, or basic things such as speaking or reading, which I owe to my parents 🙂
The list is roughly in chronological order. Years are only approximate references, none of these lessons I learned overnight, but they all changed my life.
- 5
- Books are wonderful
- Programming is fun
- Some people are idiots
- God is a lie
- 10
- Science gives answers
- Majority opinions mean nothing
- Being different means being hurt
- Everybody dies even the Sun
- 15
- Intelligence is not enough
- A life worth living takes effort
- Planning saves money and trouble
- Lying is avoidable
- Family brings great joys and great sorrows
- Romance is tragic
- 20
- Romance doesn’t need to be tragic
- Some drugs are great
- Syntactic correctness means nothing
- Beautiful code is poetry
- 25
- Being permanently unsatisfied is fine
- Good deeds are punished all the time
- Evil deeds are rewarded all the time
- Copyright is bad for art
- Patents are bad for science
- Hard work can compensate lack of talent
- 30
- Physical exercise is necessary
- Nationalism is a form of hate
- Immigration is treated as a crime
- Animals are people
- 35
- Money intensifies personalities
- Men treat women unfairly everywhere
- People are often wrong about each other
- Enlightenment is not a period but a process
- Billions are essentially slaves
- Everybody must be treated kindly
- 40
Thanks to all for your birthday greetings 🙂
