When you get defensive about feedback, you fail twice. You fail to learn today, and you fail to encourage people to keep teaching you tomorrow.

If you can't handle the truth, people stop telling you the truth.

A key to growth is showing that you're coachable.

i was telling a friend that i treat almost everything new as an art project. mostly because the beginning of anything is just weird as hell.

so many ppl try to run the “factory playbook” at this stage asking for too much feedback, layering on process, forcing rigidity. total delusion. half the time you don’t even have constraints yet.

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The Scholar

Aug 25

This Arabic poem will find you when you need it most

“إذا كانت نيتك ‘لا أبرح حتى أبلغ’ فلا بُد أن ‘تصبر على ما لم تُحِط به خبرًا’”

If your intention is, ‘I will not give up until I reach,’ then you must ‘be patient with what you cannot comprehend .’

maybe real intimacy is being able to fall apart in front of someone and still feel safe

Since AI is making everyone sound more generic and boring, I recommend becoming the most unhinged version of you, to counterbalance. Write like a crazy person who hasn’t interacted with humanity in years. Break any and all of the rules. Live like a mad, drunk poet. Now is your time to channel the weirdest version of you.

Stop assuming that people are mad at you. Stop attempting to read people's minds. Stop trying to manage the thoughts and emotions of others. Let people be in charge of themselves. If they have something to say to you, they will. And if they don't, it's their responsibility, not yours.

If AI is flattening everyone into some beige corporate mush, then the only antidote is to swing hard in the other direction. Become the feral prophet at the edge of the village.

Gurwinder

4h

“Social media makes more sense when you view it as a place people go to perform rather than a place to communicate.”

— Morgan Housel

Music

Disorganized information is just noise .

Organized info, contextualized for a specific audience / need is music .

It feels right. (By def it matches an audience's specific interests/problems.)

It has a cool sound. (Brings non-obvious insights (new melodies).)

It’s infinite. (Helps me discover and appreciate more music and artists.)