[thefastlane]

"I can't finish any technical article" ... no offense, but i don't know how you made it through grad school. nonetheless, here you are. :p

you need to kill your video game habit. sell that shit on craigslist and get on with your life. seriously.

you know that you have the capability to do amazing things, but you have to manage yourself and your time, and focus, in order to make it a reality.

see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12798511

edit: read books. pick random titles from the Oxford Very Short Introductions series.