Cabinet

What were you doing when you felt most offline this year?

“Doing a 3 day silent meditation retreat.” - Lenny Rachitsky , Lenny’s Letter

“When I was diving. There was a moment swimming with a school of hammerheads when a giant humpback whale passed by overhead. Totally awe-inspiring and very offline.” - Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snap

“Meeting my baby

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Since the only fixed demand is that you fill three pages, Morning Pages demonstrates the principle that quality is often a function of quantity: there's no time or incentive to judge each idea, to get it right before getting it down, and the result is that ideas flow more freely, unimpeded by the clenched grip of perfectionism.

Sam Harris once said, about smoking weed, that everyone he knows who smokes weed would benefit from smoking less, and everyone he knows who doesn’t smoke weed would benefit from smoking more. I feel the same way about the pursuit of self-knowledge. If you’ve never looked within, you should probably start. But if you look within all the time, maybe... See more

Decide what you would like your obituary to say and live the life to deserve it.

I recently declared feed bankruptcy.

At various points in my week // day, I type "kottke.org" into my browser, hit enter, and read whatever is there. Then I type "chorus.fm" and do the same thing. Then Daring Fireball. Then Hacker News.

I read good things, on good websites.

And it feels like an exercise in nostalgia.

Between 2010 and now, we... See more