Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
Sublime is supremely human and I really do not want to see a bunch of text. I want to see human context only.
Religion is the best illustration of the elephant in the brain. We do not worship because we believe. We worship because it helps us as social creatures.
Robin Hanson • The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
My annotated copy of A Text Renaissance | Venkatesh Rao
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Stowe Boyd • Highlight
love the ‘annotated essay’ vibe of this — cool how its a part of Obsidian’s feature set — note.sx
For the most part, we worked sitting in front of computers; for exercise we ran on treadmills, or got screamed at by (usually female) Pilates instructors, or dragged ourselves up and down a basketball court at the Y, hoping to avoid serious injury. (Unlike my wife, I could not run a half-marathon if my life depended on it.) Perhaps what was really... See more
On the Crisis of Men | The Point Magazine
the lack of awareness of the experience of the mother here blows my mind
“Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.” - Steven Pressfield
The reason why we create anything is because we love it enough to see it exist.
But for me, as a person for whom narrow focus is against my instincts, the most remarkable thing about it is how rich it feels. My life these days is small and boring. I bicycle across the same fields every day, I notice how the wind turbines turn to face the wind, I rarely travel, and I spend my spare time staring at a Word document. Annie Dillard... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Almost Everyone I’ve Met Would Be Well-Served Thinking More About What to Focus On
do less and
