Brandon Dang
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Brandon Dang
Put another way, a major reason everyone is so exhausted is because we have been taught to always strive for better, even if we have only the vaguest notion of what that “better” would look like, and even if it means viewing everything in our world as raw material that could potentially be utilized toward that end. But obedience to something... See more
Kelsey Osgood • Why Your "Digital Shabbat" Will Fail
The case for spirituality as a fundamental choice over a self-improvement treadmill. Obedience feels like a strange word here but it feels like theres truth in the sentiment
Embracing Healthy Ambition | Q&A With Gena Gorlin | #269
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#801 - George Mack - 13 Life-Changing Ideas You’ve Never Heard Of
open.spotify.comThe activity trap: The wrong things or very little have actually got done even tho things have been checked off
Early means it’s okay to still be figuring things out.
Early means it’s okay to be misunderstood.
Early means it’s okay to bring people along for the ride, to make mistakes, to communicate through uncertainty, and to second-guess whether your solution has longevity.
For founders, being early can feel like standing on a subway platform without a clock,... See more
Early means it’s okay to be misunderstood.
Early means it’s okay to bring people along for the ride, to make mistakes, to communicate through uncertainty, and to second-guess whether your solution has longevity.
For founders, being early can feel like standing on a subway platform without a clock,... See more
Britt Gage • A perspective on “being early”
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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
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
So we sit in indecision. We wait for certainty before we commit. But certainty doesn’t come from thinking about a project. It comes from being inside a project.
My friend, the project is the way.
My friend, the project is the way.
The Project Is the Way
But then, somehow, it got in.
No. Not got in. That's the wrong way of putting it. Music doesn't get in. Music is already in. Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn't necessarily know you had inside you, and runs around waking them all up. A rebirth of sorts.
There was such a yearning and energy to it. I closed my
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