Lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite.
“If you can’t be a good example, at least try to become an interesting cautionary tale.”
“If you can’t be a good example, at least try to become an interesting cautionary tale.”

“If you can’t be a good example, at least try to become an interesting cautionary tale.”

Not sure what is exactly that Merlin Mann is up to, but he’s been posting words of wisdom on Github. Lots of gems.

  • People think about you much less than you either hope or fear.
  • Whenever you’re not sure what to say, either say nothing, or ask a question.
  • Never argue on the internet. No one will remember whether you won or lost the argument; they’ll just remember that you are the sort of person who argues on the internet.
  • Be sparing in how often you tell someone their negative feelings are wrong; it rarely helps a sad person to be told that they are also a liar.
  • Whatever your problem is, remember that before you can get better, you have to stop getting worse. Try first to stop getting worse.
  • Just because you know something doesn’t mean everybody knows it. Every day, somebody’s born who’s never seen The Flintstones.
  • Archive any email that’s older than 30 days. If it kills you to archive a given email, immediately turn it into a task, and then archive it.
  • Avoid any children’s movie whose theatrical trailer includes more than one fart or butt joke. That’s their idea of the best parts of the movie.
  • If you have cool stickers, use them. Put them on things. Be carelessly joyful about using your stickers. If you die with a collection of dozens of cool stickers that you never used, you did it wrong.
  • Related: food is for eating, heirlooms are for using, champagne is for drinking, and fancy clothes are for wearing. You are not a fucking docent, and the Pope is not coming to your house.
  • When you die, your family will be charged $100 for every time you’ve ever honked your car horn. I cannot tell you how I know this, but please just understand with all sober certainty how very important it is that you never again honk your car horn.