wonder if anyone in the world works harder at anything than American school kids work at popularity. Navy SEALS and neurosurgery residents seem slack… - Paul Graham

It seems unlikely to be a coincidence that prim, prig, and prude all begin with pr. There's something censorious about pr the same way there's something slippery about sl.

The government spying on people doesn’t literally make programmers write worse code. It just leads eventually to a world in which bad ideas will win. And because this is so important to hackers, they’re especially sensitive to it. They can sense totalitarianism approaching from a distance, as animals can sense an approaching thunderstorm.

In the non-sucky parts of the real world, you don't have to give really long answers to questions or risk losing points. So treat this as a hack you have to do for school, not a permanent habit.