Fulfilling work

a lot of people who claim to be exhausted all the time might be better off if they tried to do more

Maybe you could try this : open ChatGPT or Claude. List your skills List your income and savings rate List what you’re willing to do/learn Ask it to give you ideas on what you need to do to make $X at the end of the year. Tell it to come up with a structured plan.

Further, we can't ignore the ways that our alienated condition obstructs our vision. Without a serious critique of the forces that lead to a state of alienation, we can't meaningfully contemplate how we want to live.

best editing advice i ever heard was from walter murch when he says when you find the moment you love the most b/c it's the *perfect* summation of everything you want to convey - take it out. & see how everything else around it fills that void in a newer, stronger way

One: You have to train yourself to notice things. It's not 100% natural at first – it certainly wasn’t for me – but raising those antennae is a very worthwhile thing to do. And it snowballs: once I got started taking notes, I ended up taking more and more of them.

Two: Be very liberal about what you keep. If you're going through your notes, cross ou... See more

A lot of woo is actually true.

We just lack the mental capacity, the frameworks, the language, the ease of articulation, and the consistency of evidence to make it philosophically coherent and scientifically grounded.

But we will get there.

Disregard culture punishing you for taking this seriously. It's just a social fad that comes from the collective... See more

Still, once you internalize the “Do ten times as much” norm, you are in for some soul-searching. If you want to learn a foreign language, you need to budget about two thousand hours. If you want to master a technical subject, you need to budget about five thousand hours. If you want your kids to be pious Orthodox Jews, move to an Orthodox neighborh... See more

Sometimes maybe it’s best, in art and writing, to be as dumb as possible, follow the joy, because at the very least that's real. And there, you’ve taken the first step towards the truth.