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Finding your people makes you realize there was nothing wrong with you
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a feeling of connection to things larger than ourselves.
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
the universe and
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
The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — even in that we skip forward — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of
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We all started in the same place
you are in today.
Everyone has the same self
doubts and no one’s perfect.
And when you meet your heroes
and when you work with them
and they treat you as a peer,
learn from it.
Keep moving. If you’re
dreaming the right dream,
you’re on the right path.
I’ve been there before,
it’s tough, keep going.
These people helped me
to become the person I am.
How can we take this same idea
of bold dramatic change
to help create a better society?
We are going to have
to invent those things
and do it in all of these other domains that are
being touched or revolutionized by technology.
It may seem daunting, it may seem difficult,
it may seem impossible,
but if you just find the right people
and keep seeking out
knowledge and advice
keep staying open
to make a better world
regardless of where you come from,
great things can happen.
— Tony Fadell, co-creator of the iPod & iPhone
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"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”
—Charles Bukowski
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