On their podcast “Poog,” comedians Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak often refer to secular things as “godly” and “godless.” As in: liking a friend’s Instagram, godless; running into a friend on the street, godly. I think about this bifurcation all the time. Kate and Jacqueline are forever fixated on finding a new wellness routine that might change... See more

Be addicted to real dopamine, not digital dopamine. Laughing with friends. Seeing a sunrise. That’s the real stuff.

"what is the smallest amount of progress that will be useful and valuable to the essential task we are trying to get done?"

"The ‘safe path’ is not actually safe. In fact it’s dangerous. It’s dangerous to your dreams. Safety murders your ambition. Murders your sense of adventure. Safety is a serial killer. But it operates in a slow, boring fashion. Like a pillow suffocating an old-man on a hospital bed."

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"We're not trying to please everybody. We're not cooking for critics. I cook for customers. If I started cooking for critics, I'd probably be really miserable." - David Chang

the things in your immediate vicinity are the things that are going to dominate your life. So picking and influencing your neighborhood is really important... the neighborhood determines quite a bit about our life and our happiness.

In most areas of computing, programmers write code or train an AI model to achieve specific objectives, such as driving a car without crashing or generating humanlike text. Stanley creates systems that instead evolve, seeking novelty for its own sake. These systems sometimes discover stepping stones toward solutions that couldn’t be achieved via a ... See more

Enjoying the little things...Ideas of meaning and purpose exist on a huge scale, but they remove us from the value in the everyday. Instead of worrying about what it all “means” in the face of eternity ask: what if I only had today? This wakes you up to the preciousness of pointless and forgettable moments.

while having a romantic partner is not a necessity for everyone, having a community is. “I truly believe that hyper-individualism, which is deeply rooted in capitalism, does so much work to trick us into believing that we should feel like we can do everything in life on our own,” maya says, adding that being in a relationship has made them so much ... See more