Brandon Dang

I then entered the classic California pipeline: when worldly pleasures fail you, attempt to locate the happiness without conditions. I became a self-therapy and meditation nerd, and, as a result, I achieved a much greater level of embodiment. I realized that I’d been stuck in my head for my whole life — that this is not a figure of speech, but a... See more

In the era of the never-ending playlist, when tunes are almost too algorithmically available, these writers remind that a regular appointment of conscious listening, playing or singing can be better than a visit to the clinic.

I switched my major to psychology, but not before taking a class where we read Emile Durkheim’s The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.

That book shaped my view of God for the next 20 years of my life. Durkheim essentially argues that what people worship as God, whether they’re Aboriginal people in Australia or Catholic people in Europe or Muslim... See more

Check out Chat with Jayasāra: Love and Memory, from the Waking Up app:

https://dynamic.wakingup.com/episode/SE85CB4?source=content%20share&share_id=0E128CF4

There is a network of people passionately working on interesting things but when I step back a bit there isn’t a coherent story tying things together other than a broad FAFO / make bets on probabilistic outcomes energy. While there is widespread support with people rooting for each other, something I’ve appreciated after hibernating in Asia, it’s... See more

Your company will only scale to the level your nervous system can hold: tend to it like your most valuable asset.