everything is a conversation

Great conversations give us this gift: we receive more than we sought.

We find ourselves saying things we didn't know we knew, wanting things we didn’t know we wanted, becoming someone we didn’t yet know we could be. The path matters because the path changes us, and in changing us, it changes where we can go next.

This line from David Foster Wallace still haunts me:

“The next suitable person you’re in light conversation with, you stop suddenly in the middle of the conversation and look at the person closely and say, “What’s wrong?” You say it in a concerned way. He’ll say, “What do you mean?” You say, “Something’s wrong. I can tell. What is it?”

And he’ll

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Intelligence is a form of friendship with the world. It can’t be cultivated out of fear of it.

writing is how you clarify your beliefs in order to make them useful to others

which in turn prompts conversations which help further clarity your thoughts and lets you be of greater & greater service

Play finite games, win finite prizes

When you stop reading, you stop writing.

When you stop writing, you stop thinking.

When you stop thinking, you stop feeling.

When you stop feeling, you stop believing.

When you stop believing, you stop building.

When you stop building, you stop bettering.

When you stop bettering, you stop caring.

When you stop caring, you stop living.