everything is a conversation

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

The more you cling to certainty, the more identity rules your life.

Brett Kistler • Tweet

most of the demons worth slaying, they're the children of Certainty and Convenience

In a memetic war, you’re much less a soldier than you are a battleground.

I think that a fairly reliable mark of high intelligence is the capacity to recognize the signal within the noise of someone's 'wrong' take.

Pseudo-intelligence gleefully pours out the bathwater, raw intelligence finds & nurtures the baby.

Heidi Priebe • Tweet

you may not be able to escape audience capture, but you can at least curate your audience so that you become captured in a way that's beneficial to you

orph • Tweet

Astronaut Scott Kelly on intelligence:

“The smartest person in the room, I’ve learned, is usually the person who knows how to tap into the intelligence of every person in the room.”

Defender • Tweet

"The particular nature of our shame tells us exactly all the ways we need to come out of hiding. Shame is difficult, shame is painful, shame is our reinforced recoil from the same experiences that previously seemed to break our hearts and made us feel shameful in the first place. But shame is our constant companion, who for our own good and for the

Tired: Rushing to quick answers or public declarations Wired: Sitting with questions, refining them in trusted company, and waiting until the shape of truth emerges

Yancey Strickler x.com

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