“The stuff that was good”
Shahid Kamal Ahmad, game developer, interviewed on the podcast Mac Power Users: Shahid Kamal Ahmad, game developer: “It’s a short life. We’re not kids anymore. But we forget so much of the good, and it’s just the way we’re primed. Evolution rewards us for remembering that which screwed us up. It does not reward us for remembering the stuff that was good.”
Sam Potts’s five-point plan
I especially like no. 3: “Heed the wisdom of Mickey Rivers,” who said this: “Ain’t no sense worrying about things you got no control over because if you got no control, ain’t no sense worrying. And there ain’t no sense worrying about things you got control over, because if you got control, ain’t no sense worrying.”