Brandon Dang

“It is a joy to be hidden, and a disaster not to be found.”

your relationship with the divine always takes the shape of your relational patterns in general.

I’m sick n tired of being sick n tired. Working to exhaustion isn’t an inevitability of ambition. If we take breaks throughout the day, we’ll do better work, work on the right things, show up better, and at the end of the day feel less fried and have the space and energy to do the things we actually want to do instead of just collapsing.

A psychotechnology is anything that can alter your relationship with self, from mainstream talk therapy, to all kinds of meditation, to newfangled forms of therapy like IFS, etcetera. Different psychotechnologies will be more or less appropriate to a given individual. Some will be powerful in combination. There is no one “path,” although some... See more

Listening to Edith Piaf in Oppert’s presence, a 65-year-old man with A.L.S., a former boxer, removes his oxygen mask to sing along and proclaim: “I’m in the ring. I’m strong enough to fight!”

Antimemetic World Is A Fun Place to Explore Ideas

I want to keep writing books. I want to keep showing up here. I want to keep exploring ideas. Nadia’s book has helped me develop a more coherent understanding of what I enjoy about ideas. I enjoy ideas that people don’t like talking about. I like the uncomfortable truths. I like the scary questions.... See more