everything is a conversation

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

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

Instead, I stopped trying to fit myself and Every into an old model of what a founder, software startup, or media company needs to look like. Those are all old ideas, from an older context. They can be useful when needed. But they’re dry and dead.

I’ve just tried to be honest about who I am, what I want, and what I believe to be true about the... See more

Dan Shipper • Every’s Master Plan

“Things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. When you understand that, you abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.” - Leonard Cohen

Henrik Karlsson • Sara Campbell on Substack

Humans aren’t meant to excavate their inner feelings until they find their “true self.” We become ourselves in relation, not through introspection.

Laura London on Substack

your life will get easier when you accept evil is a real force in the world thats embodied in humans that exist purely to move your soul away from the pure good and eternal. pretending otherwise is a sheltered and silly idea

Will Manidis • Tweet

When I watch a Miyazaki film I can’t help but think about his attunement to the world, the presence it requires to transmute the real world into a fantastical one. That’s the interesting contradiction of writers and artists, I suppose: alienation is a necessity, but so is participation. The point of getting better is to be more in the world.

treat the tweets on your timeline as if they are messages in your inbox personally sent to you, and reply like how you’d reply to a friend sending that message

In a broader sense, we are realizing in the modern area that strict rationality on it's own is not enough to hold our societies and cultures together. However, pure chaos obviously does not work either. We need a dialectic between order and chaos, form and emptiness, structure and flexibility, that allows us to gain the benefits of modernity while... See more

Θωμᾶς del Vasto • Tweet

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

— Martin Buber

Dan Shipper • Every’s Master Plan

Henrik Karlsson • Sara Campbell on Substack

Laura London on Substack

Will Manidis • Tweet

Θωμᾶς del Vasto • Tweet

Sherry Ning • Don't look too closely, love