Brian
@bshih
Brian
@bshih
Use collections to represent “a belief” or “an idea” as in a phrase, not just a tag.

Ask yourself “what would the version of you with 100% agency in this situation do?”… and then realize that that is you. You always have 100% agency.
Keep track of your progress. I’ve been keeping a list of every book I read since 2001, and I feel great every time I add a title to the current year, whether I loved it or not. In more dedicated times, I made a point to write brief notes about what I did or didn’t like in a separate document as a kind of reading log, to help jog the memory when, as
... See moreThe active mind conjures up demons; the stilled mind extinguishes them. (said by Xuanzang)
—From Julia Lovell’s translation of Monkey King
Channeling Slouching Towards Bethlehem, there was a time where I felt like we were heading towards some dark, doom-laden future. While parts of the poem still feel accurate (the falcon can’t hear the falconer, the worst are full of passionate intensity), it’s no longer quite so clear to me where we are heading. Perhaps we’re just heading towards a
... See moreWe are still in the nihilist moment of disillusionment and anger, after people have lost faith in the old stories but before they have embraced a new one. So what next? The first step is to tone down the prophecies of doom and switch from panic mode to bewilderment. Panic is a form of hubris. It comes from the smug feeling that one knows exactly
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