from outcome to process

The gap between knowing what you want and going after it is where fear thrives. You don't need enough courage for the entire journey. You only need courage for the next step.

"The metacrisis" is attractive because it suggests you can save the world by thinking about it extremely abstractly.

To arrive somewhere remarkable we must be willing to hold many paths open without knowing where they might lead.

Sometimes the best way to achieve something great is to stop trying to achieve a particular great thing. In other words, greatness is possible if you are willing to stop demanding what that greatness should be.

Almost no prerequisite to any major invention was invented with that invention in mind.

Reframing “work” as a process of embodied intention not only inverts the relationship between process and output (and makes us question why that relationship ever seemed hierarchical in the first place) but also forces us to prioritize the things that make process more enjoyable, true, delightful and meaningful.