Disequilibrium -- surprises, failures, jokes, and disorientations -- will always happen. Taking that opportunity to move away from a local maximum towards a global maximum is up to me.
Somewhere along the way, programmers learn the “DRY” principle: Don’t Repeat Yourself. This is good advice, within reason. But if you wring every bit of redundancy out of your code, you end up with something like Huffman encoded source. In fact, DRY is very much a compression algorithm. In moderation, it makes code easier to maintain. But carried too far, it makes reading your code like reading a zip file. Sometimes a little redundancy makes code much easier to read and maintain.
REJECTION THERAPY – THE GAME
consists of only one main rule…
YOU MUST BE REJECTED BY ANOTHER PERSON AT LEAST ONCE, EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Please notice the wording of the rule. It doesn’t say you must attempt or try to be rejected. The rule is you MUST be rejected by another human being. In this game, rejection is success.
No other outcome will meet the requirement of Rejection Therapy.
To put yourself in a situation where rejection is likely, but to your surprise your request is granted, is not a successful outcome. Why? Because you weren’t rejected. You didn’t ask for enough.
Many people enter my heart, friends and strangers, and hang around in the common spaces... sometimes just a short while, and sometimes much longer. They wear down the floors and scuff the walls, they throw parties and help me fix the place up.
Each new romantic love builds their own room, an addition onto my house. We work on it together and it grows over time, a special place filled with emotions, experiences, and memories. There is always space to add another room, and build additions onto the rooms already built - it only takes time and energy, the material provided by our lives. No two rooms are alike, each one shaped by the person who built it.
Das Internet ist kein Plattenladen. Sorry, aber da habense dich angelogen. Das Internet ist statt dessen so eine Art Radio- oder Fernsehsender. Merkt man schon daran, dass es Strom braucht. Du kannst da Sachen draus “aufnehmen”, wie beim Radio, aber nichts draus wegnehmen (“stehlen”).
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T. Malone, R. Laubacher, и C. Dellarocas. Research Paper, No. 4732-09. MIT, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, (февраля 2009)