Losing Yourself, Ambition, Writing, 40k Books, Surrender | #247

The Pathless Path captures the idea that in the 21st century, everyone has to think like an artist. In a more stable world, people could conform to traditional life arcs. There were the few, the self-selected, who lived an artistic life: a quest into the unknown guided by self-discovery. Now, because of the shifting landscape, more and more people

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I realized that I’ve been avoiding setting a bold goal for my life, probably because I’ve been burnt by past goals. Right now, there’s a really practical, short-term goal of just sustaining myself as a writer. But once that works, then what? Maybe that’s it, but what’s beyond that? In my grandest vision for my life, I think I’d be an “architect,” i

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