everything is a conversation

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

one thing that is truly lifechanging is seeing precisely how haters, hecklers, etc are part of the theatre production. they are a part of the show

Visakan Veerasamy • Tweet

as far as I can tell, everyone is given different values to live by. Different questions to live into. Different gods who live in their chest. Different combinations of natural concerns that balance out very differently.

River Kenna • Destabilization & the Frequency of Values

man's capacity for good makes markets possible; man's propensity for evil makes markets necessary.

nihilism disrespecter x.com

We put such pressure on ourselves to know exactly who we are and what we want in every moment; it’s okay for some things to be fuzzy. People who identify with having “so many issues” are often just people who don’t have immediate or perfect closure on the ever-evolving experience of being human.

Katherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control

Never trust an influencer without a decent reply game

Tyler Alterman • Tweet

if you’re in a conversation, you have to listen to the other person. Because if you don’t, you won’t know what to say when it’s your turn to talk.

Conversations reset the power and compliance dynamic, because conversations enable us to be heard.

Conversations generate their own interest, because after you speak your piece, you’re probably very... See more

seths.blog • The Conversation

if your work is solely driven by how people respond to it, you’ll create something popular but soulless

if it’s driven by how you feel about it, you’ll create something potent but obscure

but if your work is a dialogue between self & world, it can be both resonant & true

scott 🌞 • Tweet

“The trouble with market research is people don’t think what they feel, they don’t say what they think, and they don’t do what they say.” (David Ogilvy)

By the time the map is available it is useless, life has changed its tracks. Life has started playing a new game. You cannot cope with life with maps because it is not measurable, and you cannot cope with life by consulting guidebooks because guidebooks are possible only if things are stagnant. Life is not stagnant—it is a dynamism, it is a