Thanks for commenting, and for writing the post in the first place! I understand your concern - and just took your name off of all of em.

I read another comment from comet that had a quote on a post that just left the front page about Feynman burning out that I think might answer your question. You can do it all, be successful, happy, driven, and have what others might think are unobtainable ideals all at the same time.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3877084 This reminds me of a Zen Buddhist text that goes like this - “The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in everything he does, leaving others to determine whether he is at work or at play. To him, he is always doing both.”

Agreed. Note the source -- folks who had gone home to die and spoke with a palliative care nurse, Bronnie Ware. There are many people who die without access to in-home hospice care.* Overall they tend to be poorer and I would bet they have some other regrets not mentioned here (and I'd be interested to read up on them).

Still, it's hard to argue with this advice...

* I believe Medicare (covers most Americans over 65) provides some in-home hospice benefit, so I'm not saying this is limited to the extremely rich, but it is limited to those with a home and the wherewithal to seek hospice care.

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It's… awkwardly sycophantic.

It seems like you read to the third line but missed the fourth and fifth.

That's what I expected given the title of the submission.

Am I missing the reason for your comment?

I suppose if you think about things in general, all design is just words, shapes, and pictures organized in an aesthetically pleasing and functionally efficient way. This is a wallpaper, so there's less of the latter. :P

Nope, but that doesn't make the words, or the obvious impact they had on the artist, any less important.

Yes. The message.

Yes, the non-uniformity of identical letters adds a really nice layer to the aesthetic

whoops, my bad! that's pretty major. I'll fix it this afternoon..

The difference between an honest person and an asshole? Tact.

Maybe try having thoughts that are more kind and respectful? You can't win everyone as friends, but being respectful will win enough.

on it! - sneakily making these in class

mtn- http://byalicelee.com/files/PG_1920x1080.jpg plain- http://byalicelee.com/files/PG_1920x1080p.jpg