everything is a conversation

There are only so many ways to begin talking, but with each exchange, the combinatorial space of what might come next expands dramatically. By the tenth turn of a genuine dialogue, we’re navigating billions of potential conversational states.

“A person should have two therapists. A man who is stern and tells them how it is, and a woman who's gentle and always supportive. Ideally, the two therapists would be married to each other and had sex about 9 months before the person was born."

The monomyth appeals to us because the hero is Special and has a Cosmic Mission that gives him/her unquestionable definite purpose. We have difficult choices about life-paths, which people in the archaic times of myth simply didn't. They had to play the random hand dealt to them. https://t.co/mTuzfneWkq

Changing the interpretation of the past is critical to controlling the future.

The only thing you can do is be a living proof.

rookie mistake for smart people everywhere is to obsess over truth at the expense of memetic fitness

"The truth does not require your participation in order to exist. Bullshit does."

~Terence McKenna