everything is a conversation

notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity

opportunity is around you, not above you.

talk to new people, even if you don’t know their name, truly talk to them, give them a chance to enter your life. you might be standing next to someone who will change the course of your next year, or someone who just needed one kind word to believe in themselves again.

binji • Tweet

the era of the Agenda having authority over thriving, successful individuals is over. people are starting to think for themselves again, and whenever they do so out in public (like sydney did here), swaths of people behind the scenes who have felt trapped by the Agenda cheer and feel more and more free. this will continue. and the ideologically... See more

Isabel • Tweet

In a broader sense, we are realizing in the modern area that strict rationality on it's own is not enough to hold our societies and cultures together. However, pure chaos obviously does not work either. We need a dialectic between order and chaos, form and emptiness, structure and flexibility, that allows us to gain the benefits of modernity while... See more

Θωμᾶς del Vasto • Tweet

Dostoevsky, unlike most other authors, treats his characters as full individuals, as if they are too big to fit in his head: he isn’t using them as mouth pieces but is listening to them. His books are polyphonic: they are made up of a multitude of voices, each with their own inner logic and perspective, and there is no voice that stands above the... See more

A list of books and essays that I love

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another.”

-Anaïs Nin

Product momentum and narrative momentum are both crucial. It’s probably best to have narrative momentum a little bit ahead of product momentum but not so much that you’re creating a credibility gap. The opposite, product far ahead of narrative, creates a ‘best kept secret’ gap.

anu • Tweet

Woodworking is brutal. It's painfully slow to learn and very unforgiving. But the sheer act of jumping blindly into a new creative field as a novice really opened up my eyes. You'd be surprised how quickly designing a simple bench will lead you into existential questions about the nature of "sitting."

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“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

-Terry Pratchett

“Nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence.”

-Octavia Butler