Comment by cgearhart

20ish years ago I complained to my college roommate that my math book was too big. He asked if I was gonna sell it back, and I said I couldn’t—they had a new edition out, so mine was worthless. Cut it, he said.

It was something I had never considered. Not for a moment. Books were sacred to me. Cut one? Blasphemy.

But he was right. And so I cut it. And it fixed all of my complaints.

What I learned is that some folks have a different mindset; they see the world as something to be shaped around themselves, rather than seeing themselves as something that should be shaped to fit the world. That’s been a useful lesson sometimes.