William Chang » Philosophy

Don’t Be Trapped By Dogma

William Chang — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:33:06 +0000

Through my lifetime I observe the hardships and looped relationships people are facing. This is not about minor things, but long term difficulties and well being. I can only give you a small window of a complicated topic of people getting trapped in their superficial beliefs and their experiences from their own superficial community. When dealing with hardships and looped relationships they default to the most comfortable solution. I find it interesting that they try again with another comfortable solution, even though at the end they all failed because it is all technically similar, it is just a matter of time.

I find this group of people share a common attribute is that they can’t exit and choose an uncomfortable solution to a radical journey. Because, fears drive them away and so they end up superficially happy, but constantly complaining to themselves until the day they died. If they share a mutual history with someone or with their superficial community, then they become ignorant and allow themselves to be fooled again by peer-pressure time after time.

The superficial community or relationship with someone that they feel is going back and forth like an endless loop has to stop now. The damage was done and it is a disaster if they act nothing has happen because of their mutual history. They cannot take another comfortable solution and receive more foreseen damages to their well being. They must exit out from their relationship or their superficial community and choose an uncomfortable solution to a radical journey. Thus, they can live happily ever after.

I updated my “About” page with my life’s to-do list because I want to diversify my life with activities and adventures. Recently, I’ve been uploading a lot of photos to Flickr that received from my friends, even though I don’t own a camera yet. DieHard signing out!

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Controlling Time

William Chang — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:08:28 +0000

There are so many things to do, but so little time. And when you have something to due, you don’t have enough time to finish it. Then, you have to manage priorities, sacrificing time for others, so now the other things fall behind. You have to include sleep and eating as well, they have priorities and consume time. The biggest factor of all is drowsiness, personally, it effects my performance and my emotions. What hurts the most is school, so many (most) unpractical courses does not excite my interest to pursue. I’m left to forcing myself to learn and deal with it, but this is when drowsiness comes into play. It’s been a life-long battle so far and there is nothing unsettling about school, always on your toes.

I spent time doing overdue “personal” projects that should’ve been done long time ago. I’m glad I finally made progress. I did a lot of C++ programming to develop a fundamental game engine for Developers Club – Project 1. The Insurance Advisors of Florida website is reaching to completion soon.

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Find What You Love

William Chang — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 03:40:30 +0000

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”

A quote from the text of the commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

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How To Suck At MySpace

William Chang — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 08:51:38 +0000

I found an article on CollegeHumor that relate to my opinions about MySpace. I quote:

“If you don’t know what MySpace is, you’re in the minority. But not the kind of minority that you stereotype; I mean a general representation of fewer people. Incase you don’t know, MySpace is basically the Facebook for college dropouts (or those winners who never even bothered at a higher education) since you don’t need a university e-mail address to register. Here I will give you a beginner’s guide to sucking at MySpace, even if most of you don’t need it.”

“Let’s begin with your page layout. You’re going to want to go completely overboard on it. Choose, let’s say, a yellow font over a bright orange background. Then insert as many moving, sparkly, chartreuse colored items in the most unorganized way possible that will make me really want to come up with a generic metaphor for seriously injuring my eyes.”

“Insert an irritating music video into your profile. Never under any circumstance place it near the top of your profile, because then it’s possible to pause it before interrupting the good music that I’ve already been listening to. One of the biggest mistakes made by people who do not suck at MySpace is not being annoying enough. If you want to ensure a satisfactory level of displeasure in anyone that comes across your profile, I suggest adding a totally different song in your profile that starts playing at the same time as the initial music video. I think a Kanye West song playing over a Clay Aiken video would suffice. But please remember to make me scroll and search for them!”

“Here’s an important one: you know the bulletin feature which lets you write a message to all of your friends at once? Overuse it! You should be asking for picture comments and other undeserved attention at least nine times per week. It may be tough to squeeze all of this begging for acknowledgement in between having sex with random men to make yourself feel prettier but trust me, this step is very crucial. Just remember that nine is only the minimum, so I want you to feel free to really go nuts with it.”

“Keep overusing those bulletins, people! This time, I want you to notify everyone on your friends list as to what your dating status is. What’s that? Oh, don’t be silly; of COURSE we care!! Now, you should do this by assigning a color to each possible situation. For example, “Blue=single and content; Red=single and looking; Yellow=taken; Green=taken but banging your boyfriend’s brother

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