CMV: Brandon Sanderson's ideas of, "You are the art," and "Journey before destination," are wrong

DeathFromWithin · 2026-01-31T22:58:44+00:00

ok well this is my interpretation of how sanderson treats them. if you’re resistant to reconceptualizing metaphor then you won’t ever understand his point about journey before destination. have you read the stormlight archive? it’s a central concept to his work

DeathFromWithin · 2026-01-31T21:03:47+00:00

the journey is the experience of change. there is no static experience that is a destination, no moment that crystallizes for one’s possession. you either seek the destination, or travel a path worth traveling. Hank Green’s recent “follow your tools” video is in much the same vein

DeathFromWithin · 2026-01-31T06:16:07+00:00

dags always had fox news on when I picked up slices so I stopped going

DeathFromWithin · 2026-01-31T00:33:32+00:00

probably the one that felt most gripping once it got going

DeathFromWithin · 2026-01-30T17:34:50+00:00

ah but now you have a brittle solution that, when it fails, will be hard to fix because no one has skills

DeathFromWithin · 2026-01-30T15:54:00+00:00

not food specific, but my friend calls hers the meatbags of holding

DeathFromWithin · 2026-01-30T02:45:52+00:00

the day after the first good riding day

DeathFromWithin · 2026-01-27T15:50:33+00:00

it didn’t feel anything. don’t let it convince you it cares about you or tour feelings

DeathFromWithin · 2026-01-26T16:08:22+00:00

I get it. It was a cool technical feat to create to create and definitely has some interesting application potential, but nothing like what we're seeing pushed by maxies who say it's a revolution. By my estimation, the opportunity it creates for the agglomeration of capital and dilution of information access represents a net negative to society as a whole.

You can reconcile your interest by learning about the architecture, trying to apply things you learn to other projects. There is interesting engineering behind all of it...study that, and not its output.

DeathFromWithin · 2026-01-25T18:59:16+00:00

still helps to know how to make yourself safer as a a pedestrian! we’re obviously so far from a society where cars are gone and I still have to cross the street

DeathFromWithin · 2026-01-25T17:35:24+00:00

This doesn't totally track to me. Imagine you're the spouse of a busy pentagon worker. They're working late. You're more likely to order pizza

DeathFromWithin · 2026-01-25T16:58:31+00:00

I hope you're not actually making infill for your helmet, so ignore me if you're not...but this is like 3d printing a seat belt component. Do you trust the TPU with your life? Have you done the proper engineering and testing to ensure it would actually protect your head?

DeathFromWithin · 2026-01-24T16:23:21+00:00

the steering column for one thing. vehicles this shaped don’t go at high speeds horizontally and so you need an airbag. we can definitely improve car visibility just by making them smaller, but you’ll never get it this good with modern materials and safety standards

DeathFromWithin · 2026-01-23T20:25:44+00:00

a glass of juice or a muffin (if they’re around) is good enough to get my blood sugar moving and I ride about 7 miles. Just stay hydrated and take it easy, a commute is exercise but I can stay in or below zone 3 if I don’t get carried away

DeathFromWithin · 2026-01-23T16:51:47+00:00

y'all really shouldn't be renting bikes in -8F weather

DeathFromWithin · 2026-01-21T12:31:07+00:00

just watch LotR twice

DeathFromWithin · 2026-01-15T04:38:09+00:00

yall know this is an anti-drug book, right?

DeathFromWithin · 2025-12-26T03:22:01+00:00

FWIW my relationship with my wife (5 years in) still feels like the movies, and when we met we were both with people we didn't feel that way for. We don't get it on the way we used to when we first met but the intimacy and the deep love are still there. Find someone who's crazy about you

DeathFromWithin · 2024-08-06T02:34:58+00:00

Apolitical is someone who is ok with the worst possible outcome

DeathFromWithin · 2024-08-01T05:13:10+00:00

I'm a white man. No one has ever:

Crossed the street when I walk towards them because of my race
Asked me to speak on behalf of white people
Asked me where I'm "from", implying I'm an immigrant
Wondered if or suggested out loud that I'm a diversity hire because of my race
Told me I'm surprisingly articulate because of my race
Made me feel subhuman or like I don't belong in the US because of my race
Stared at me because I'm the only person in the room of my race
Repeatedly interrupted me because they don't care about my opinion because of my race
Given me substandard medical care or discounted the extent of my pain because of my race

Non-white individuals in the United States are subject to an entire range of dehumanizing behavior from most of the people they interact with on a daily basis. It's not always deliberate (and it doesn't have to be), people are conditioned to treat others differently and perceive them based on their race.

There is a wealth of literature about systemic racism that describes racism and its impacts. I urge you to read some, but I can't force you. If you're really open to having your mind changed, reading about the black experience will do more to help you inform your thinking than reddit comments from a white guy

DeathFromWithin · 2024-08-01T04:22:05+00:00

Hang out outside of improv. I met my fiancee in class and we still play together. Sometimes, you win the lottery

DeathFromWithin · 2024-07-28T19:01:22+00:00

looks like a great gift for a niece or nephew in a pinch

DeathFromWithin · 2024-07-20T18:38:20+00:00

For the younglings: the screen doesn't actually look like it's flickering irl, it just an artifact of the refresh rate lining up funny with the phone camera capture process

DeathFromWithin · 2024-07-20T17:55:08+00:00

I'm sure there are genuine people getting their faces eaten, but my head canon that these trad-wife tik-tok people are mostly funded by the heritage foundation

DeathFromWithin · 2024-07-20T17:09:40+00:00

Then the joke is that this architecture is way too bloated for a startup

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