Chaweon Koo

The key point is: the fact that it feels real is not a problem to solve conceptually. In Taft’s framing, that is part of the dreamlike quality of experience. The world feels real because the whole stack is working together.

So the practice is not to think your way out of the immersion.

It is to stay awake inside it.

Wealth is not about accumulation.

It’s about circulation .

Rather than relaxing in the relevant sense, I was using my optimization machinery to simulate relaxation at a very convincing level of fidelity while the machinery itself hummed along at full speed.

Bhakti, in its most tender form, is devotion as oxygen. Singing names until the singer dissolves into song

We don’t elect leaders anymore; we elect symbols of conviction.

The way I see it is that a strong desire will take you down the hallway towards the door of nibbana. Then, when the door starts to open, you pay it no mind.

the recurring friction of making, recording, regulating, and continuing does not land as:

“Here is the tax of authorship.”

It lands as:

“Here is more proof that I am uniquely unfit for the life I want.”

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes. The goal is to walk away from every mistake with a heuristic (a thinking shortcut) like a rule, a framework, or a checklist.

people new to design tend to confuse an idea for the expression of an idea. Ideas are easy, because they don't rely on specifics. Expressing ideas is incredibly difficult, because doing it well requires a deep understanding of the medium that is only possible by having worked in it, such as understanding which methods to use where, identifying... See more