Paraprosdokians are funny and unexpected. Creativity is the hidden ingredient in the element of surprise. They are delightful to collect as part of the trove of any idea collector, which can be used as inspirational cues and shift paradigm steroids for creative work. In some cases, they contain wisdom and…

Mind The Perils — What Happened To The Little Riding Hood? The Little Riding Hood does face certain risks when her mother sends her through the woods to visit her grandmother, and what is an old lady living alone in the deep woods? The big bad wolf indeed has frightening Endurance. It is a carnivore. Such is encoded in its nature…

The Evasive Ether Of Happiness — TLDR: 1. Happiness and joy are different. 2. Eudaemonia has more dimensions and favors than is commonly understood. 3. Eudaemonia is not found, it is cultivated. 4. Emancipation is a composition of at least with these 2 components: encraty and volition. 5. …

Heuristics — Humans are not compliers. — Ursa If you rush, likely — you will be debugging your confusion. — 2017–06.29 They are tools, not truths. — Re: Techniques, 2007–01.17 Note some acronyms used in this article. 1. Constraints checking: explicit format size and type e.g. buffer copying, esp i/o e.g. big-endian vs…

Mining For Truth — Everyone has to be an artist and a scientist, there is no excuse for failing either. The plight of the day is that the school is a factory and the family is a village. We are all compartmentalized to think within a scope of pride, prejudice and preferences. …

Notes From My Friends (From 2011 to 2022) — Insights And Advices Collected Along The Way, Part 1 Notes From My Friends (From 1984 to 2021)mikail-eliyah.medium.com This is a continuation from Part 1 which contains `Notes From My Friends (From 1984 to 2010)`. It is beautiful that something purely imaginary.. and extending to infinite proportions could result in a real value. - Sushanth, Re: Sushanth's theorem, 2010-02.27

The Game With Life — There Are Some Games We Cannot Afford To Lose — We will revisit the past and we will find many things that don’t make sense to us anymore; and we build our understanding on the past and it is falling apart for us. We will not be able to hold the sense of it together. …

ἐσωτερικός (Esôterikos) — I heard of the term `Esôterikos` from some magicians that there exists some groups such as The International Brotherhood of Magicians that opposed the exposure of magicians’ secrets and the cruel treatment of animals for the sake of entertainment. I was also told about Pythagoras (circa 580–500 B.C.) who founded…

The Ones Who See What Others Do Not — The theory states that anyone on earth can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than 5 intermediaries. As accordingly, the chain continues with the same procedure. Each sender has to relay the same to the other link to…