Chubmeister 5000
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i bless you with the healing power of love
Chubmeister 5000
cosmos.so
This ability is not something you can turn on and off. You are always internalizing the culture around you. Even when you wish you didn’t. So you better surround yourself with something you want inside—curate a culture.
Henrik Karlsson • First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us
Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
Henrik Karlssonhenrikkarlsson.xyz
A person can’t be contained in your ideas about them. This was a core idea for us. To whatever extent I assumed I knew who Johanna was, I treated her as something that I could fit in my head — as something smaller than me. But she couldn’t fit in my head, nor I in hers: that was the exciting thing about it. You can only ever know another individual... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Sometimes the Reason You Can’t Find People You Resonate With Is Because You Misread the Ones You Meet
Nurture and Optimal grip
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
One Weird Trick
Okay, but really, short of traumatizing yourself, how can you learn to thrive in the Moat, so you can experience the glorious upside?
The true secret is that getting over it means resolving yourself to not really getting over it. Unless you are truly emotionally strange, being in the Moat will hurt somewhat. You will feel... See more
Okay, but really, short of traumatizing yourself, how can you learn to thrive in the Moat, so you can experience the glorious upside?
The true secret is that getting over it means resolving yourself to not really getting over it. Unless you are truly emotionally strange, being in the Moat will hurt somewhat. You will feel... See more
Cate Hall • Learn to Love the Moat of Low Status
There’s an Ann Hood quote that I recently heard and held onto. “Write about the things that keep you up at night,” she says. In other words, you don’t have to go digging and searching for something to say. The most mundane or seemingly random itch you’re scratching—a dying houseplant, a misplaced notebook, an awkward interaction at your friend’s... See more
Nandi Rose / Half Waif • Writing into the Light
Desire is a beautiful emotion and a visceral motivator.