Andy Claremont
@andymci
Professional geek. Amateur dad. Surfing the web.
Andy Claremont
@andymci
Professional geek. Amateur dad. Surfing the web.
Your ten-year-old self would remind you to stay interested in the world and have some fun along the way. When life pulls you toward the sameness of incurious, static adulthood, you must fight to main- tain your wonder for the universe.

A Good Life and Life
It's interesting to think about if you're playing the game of spectacle, there's only sort of one path forward, which is more or bigger. Yeah. And mischief trapped ourselves in that own game. Like we've, we built the game, we designed a game. We want it because we're a player of one. And then we essentially are trapped by the game unless we
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“I think you can only really get staying power if you focus on a relationship with a small group for as long as you can possibly hold on and then a little bit more, and then maybe, maybe you have a chance of something with like really significant staying power.”
Life and A Good Life
Choose pursuits that push the world forward.
A good life doesn’t ask you to be good at everything.
It asks you to find the small circle where you have unusual leverage, and to be peacefully average at most of the rest.
It’s like walking around with a metal detector over your own life, waiting for those little “beeps” of intensity.