everything is a conversation

one of the most exhausting habits, maybe even addictions, is the desire to want to be seen accurately, judged correctly, understood perfectly

there is power in letting distortion exist

when the need to be understood loosens, the energy returns to what actually wants to be made

You don’t ever have to chase magic. You just have to slow down and become present enough for it to reveal itself to you.

yesterday a friend said: “doesn’t freelancing make you feel simultaneously self-actualized and completely behind in life?”

and yeah. that’s exactly it.

freelancing makes me feel free, and terrified, and proud, and like a failure.

all at once. every day.

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.

There's an idea I think I picked up from Robert Kegan, the idea of an "evolutionary balance" in your personality structure. Or maybe it was “evolutionary truce.” The idea, as I remember it, is that your personality is made of many different dynamic forces, all pulling and pushing in different ways. For most of your life, those forces find an... See more

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

The good thing about conversations is that you realize how little you know.

The worst thing about conversations is that you realize how little you know.