Are you living an AND life or an OR life?

What if I want to live an AND life AND an OR life?<p>This post finds reasonable fault with false dichotomies as &quot;OR life&quot; then reifies the structure of false dichotomy in the title and proposition as positivist thinking.<p>I think the constructive equivalent is &quot;When life gives you lemons, make lemonade&quot;. Or at least be mindful of the false binary trap, even in your personal life...

There is a finite number of hours in a day and a finite number of possibilities to combine different activities during these hours. Even with best of intentions and very decent techniques, it&#x27;s impossible to have a XOR life with too many things at once without getting exhausted and burned out and getting a temporarily NOT life as a result.

This reminds me of A Cyborg Manifesto:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;A_Cyborg_Manifesto" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;A_Cyborg_Manifesto</a><p>Instead of identifying yourself in bounded categories, characterise yourself by affinity.<p><pre><code> Haraway calls for a revision of the concept of gender, moving away from Western patriarchal essentialism and toward &quot;the utopian dream of the hope for a monstrous world without gender,&quot; stating that &quot;Cyborgs might consider more seriously the partial, fluid, sometimes aspect of sex and sexual embodiment. Gender might not be global identity after all, even if it has profound historical breadth and depth.&quot;</code></pre>

I feel like this article should replace OR with XOR. It&#x27;s unfortunate English doesn&#x27;t have a commonly used word for XOR.<p>Maybe we should start saying xor as though it is a normal English word, pronounced &quot;zor&quot;?

I&#x27;m married with kids, so my life is more of a 3SAT situation.

Binary thinking limits. Control is an illusion or at best minimal. You are not your emotions. There are seasons in life. Let the river carry you to the ocean. It&#x27;s up to you how that process feels.

DeMorgan&#x27;s law says there&#x27;s no difference between AND-life and OR-life if you throw in some negations

It&#x27;s quite silly in hindsight how we invent false choices (I am A XOR B) to &quot;escape&quot; the daily responsibility of real decisions, i.e. whether to spend this moment working on A or B.

I&#x27;m living the ternary life.<p>Yes.<p>No.<p>Time to do something else entirely.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Three-valued_logic" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Three-valued_logic</a>

Came here to see a reference to Karnaugh maps :-)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Karnaugh_map" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Karnaugh_map</a><p>Returning on topic, like others have stated, some times you need to be an OR, others an AND, others a NOT and some others combinations of all.

Binary thinking doesn&#x27;t lead to a good life. Continua.

I landed on a &quot;flexible OR&quot; life. I&#x27;ve found that focusing on fewer things (OR) without being dogmatic (eating healthy can mean cake sometimes) brings me a lot more satisfaction than focusing on many things and not enjoying any of them fully.

Anytime I open an article and it has <i>that</i> art style, I know it&#x27;s not for me.

My life is a mix of switch, if then else, many nested blocks, unconventional formatting and even a couple of goto statements.

AND&#x2F;OR, a techie in the Digital Circus, fell in love with a frankie, Angel Lips.<p>Funny, he never seemed to have met up with the techno witches Onoffon and Offonoff.

I’m definitely living a for loop and package.json life.

Shocked no one has suggested the XNOR life yet. What could be more expressive of the hell-yes-or-no mentality?

Or are you living a FOMO life?

You can do anything but you can’t do everything (well).