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The fastest-growing sector of the culture economy is distraction. You can call it scrolling, swiping, wasting time, or whatever you want. But it’s not art or entertainment; it's just ceaseless activity.
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third-story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
— Terence McKenna
A Good Life and Life
The power of repetitive actions. ✨
“One doesn’t expect to get from life what one has already learned it cannot give, rather, one begins to see that life is a kind of sowing time… and the harvest is not yet here.”
He was just a humble preacher’s son. And yes, he had his demons, but they never stopped him from searching for beauty. Because when you find beauty, you find inspiration. If that is, you stay as determined as Vincent.
Never stop, no matter how many failures.
When you know you’re doing what you’re meant to do, you have to try.
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Plate from An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe by Thomas Wright, 1750.
If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like?
How to Do Great Work, by Paul Graham
International Women’s Day: Shining a spotlight on brilliant thinkers.
As a knowledge worker, your mind is your most important tool. You can improve the way you use this tool by studying the way brilliant thinkers conduct research, connect ideas, solve problems and make decisions.
Using the knowledge gained by previous thinkers is also one of the fastest ways to make intellectual progress. To “stand on the shoulders of giants” is to upload these brilliant thinkers’ understanding to your own mind, to build on top of it, to share your new insights, and to keep on fostering our collective intelligence.
This series of portraits explores the thought processes, working habits, and decision-making principles applied by brilliant thinkers who profoundly impacted the world with their discoveries and the way they challenged the status quo.
Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that really isn’t you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.