Chillin’ With Goofies: A Spiritual Practice

The book Extraordinary Tennis for the Ordinary Tennis Player by Simon Ramo offers a helpful mental model: a distinction between “loser’s games” and “winner’s games.”

• Loser’s games = focusing on minimizing mistakes.


• Winner’s games = focusing on maximizing success.

When learning tennis, amateurs play a loser’s game, meaning the majority of points come f... See more

On Bullshit , philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt distinguishes bullshitting from lying, noting that liars are actually more similar to truth-tellers because both have a sensitivity to the truth that the bullshitter lacks.

Traditionally, agentic friendships are seen as masculine and communal friendships as feminine. While a good start, I find this dichotomy lacking. A better friendship taxonomy comes from Aristotle, who offers a tripartite model.

• Friendships of utility


• Friendships of pleasure


• Friendships of virtue

Friendships of utility and pleasure roughly map onto agen... See more