Be useless. So no one can use you. 
@catsalad id love to put that on a t-shirt....
@TaraBitha @catsalad was gonna say that, I would totally wear a T-shirt that says "be useless". Though I like the idea of not including any context and iykyk. 

@chris_hayes @catsalad i know you can use the image.fpr personal use

I think....so i migt.make a shirt gor myself

@catsalad Promotion material right here, straight to the board of directors.
@catsalad Smartest thing I have heard today.
Be the useless tree.
@catsalad I've a shirt that says, "If you're useless, no one can use you"

@catsalad my uncle taught me once unironically, "If you do juuuuust barely better than bad of a job, no one will ask you to do that again."

It's a little unethical, but it stuck with me for life. Family always asked us to do things, because we did them well.

I'll never, ever, forget the spraypaint job he did on a fence that was just good enough, but also got a lot of the grass" by accident."

He's a fucking genius and we never had to paint again.

@catsalad been trying to do that for years, but I keep getting promoted...I'm such a failure.
莊子說故事(蔡志忠漫畫)

YouTube

@BreakingImpossible @catsalad

Hello, I'd like to see it but I know only french and english !

@ericrogergarcia
There's an English version in book form. Sorry for the presumption!

Overall, it's Zhuang Zi (or Chuang Tsu).
He's very famous for studying the usefulness of being useless. Especially the allegory of the carpenter and the tree.

A preview:
https://archive.org/details/zhuangzispeaksmu00tsai

(The video is based on this version)
@catsalad

Zhuangzi speaks : Chih-chung Ts ai : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Internet Archive

@BreakingImpossible @catsalad

I found this in french
:)
I'm going to listen to this....

Lao Tseu - Tao Te King - Versets 1 à 30 (Trad. Stephen Mitchell)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJjDmTtI4yA

Lao Tseu - Tao Te King - Versets 1 à 30 (Trad. Stephen Mitchell)

YouTube

@BreakingImpossible @catsalad

Still simple: I just booked the book La Voie du Tao in my city’s library!
lol

@BreakingImpossible @catsalad

Wow! I only listened to the first 5 minutes: it’s extremely "modern"!

.. or at least, this information is present everywhere (when one "tries to understand") today.

Well, lol, I stop sending you messages on this for today !

:)

@catsalad

Hello,

mmm... useless...

You may say :

"be really useful so nobody can use you"

:)

@catsalad Lordy. I've been achieving a goal! I thought I was just being it.