The key seperating characteristic of Adults and Children is simple, Fear of Breaking Shit. Children do not have this crippling learning disability, they do not Fear to Break Shit. Adults do. So Adults will not try anything that they aren’t sure will not Break Shit. Since an Adult who has never used a computer does not know what will Break Shit and what won’t, they prefer to do nothing with the computer. A child doesn’t care whether what he does to the computer Breaks Shit or not, he just wants to know what it will do. So every time a child does something and it doesn’t Break Shit, he or she adds that act to the list of actions that Don’t Break Shit and moves on. The same if the action Does Break Shit. Hopefully the child will try to fix it after he Breaks Shit, and thereby learn how to UnBreak Shit.

5. Your life is messy and not just in the usual way everyone else’s is. You just can’t figure out what you want in anything — professionally, personally, and otherwise. This is more than commitment issues, you flat out don’t have a grip on anything. And until you do, you don’t want anyone else to be caught up in your mess.

Simón piensa que a veces piensa demasiado. Y a menudo siente que no siente nada, que todo le resbala. La gente tiende a posponer aquellos aspectos que más le cuestan. Quizás ahí estuvo su error: Simón nunca planeó nada y ahora está pagando el costo de haber vivido siempre en el presente. El problema es que su presente es igual a su pasado, y si algo no cede, el futuro no se ve muy promisorio. Simón se alegra de que nadie pueda saber lo que piensa. No sabría cómo justificarse. No sabría por dónde empezar.