how do you truly grow into yourself

How do you induce a new grammar of being? It's part tuning inwards, paying attention to what you pay attention to (quoting sublime), and being shaped by the environment, people and narratives you surround yourself with

Agalia Tan

He heard the phrase from the philosopher Alan Watts, who saw the universe not as a machine, but as something alive and wriggling. Embrace the wiggle, he taught, and you'll find yourself moving in harmony with the world.

At our best moments it’s not just that we’re on the right path. It’s that we let the wiggle take us there.

She quotes Viktor Shklovsky: “habitualization devours work, clothes, furniture, one's wife, and the fear of war... and art exists so that one may recover the sensation of life.” Then she goes on: “ the trick in writing/life... is to figure out how to import a chunk of the past into the present, so your present self can feel all the things you’ve fo... See more

#198: Trying to see something

Joseph Campbell’s words ring so true here: “If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.”

One of my (many) contrarian beliefs is that we do not have strong enough preferences. We often blame social media or the speed of information as the reason why we’re easily distracted, but the real reason behind our inability to focus has less to do with the sheer quantity of media and more to do with our laziness when it comes to distinguishing wh... See more

Developing taste is an exercise in vulnerability: it requires you to trust your instincts and preferences, even when they don’t align with current trends or the tastes of your peers. Because while having taste is cool, taste itself reflects a certain type of uncool earnestness – a commitment to one’s own obsessions and quirks.

Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It

Alexi Pappas on how the story you tell yourself is the most powerful one in the world.

"How you talk about your experiences will dictate how you feel about them. Reframing our goals and rewriting our stories are powerful tools. Nobody can tell us how to feel about something. We can make our shortcomings into something beautiful if we want to. How w... See more

Brain Food: Interested vs. Committed

Show up in spaces where you’re fluent in the language and culture, and where the people feel like your people.

Identifying these media that are right for you will mean that your communication is more reciprocal too - you’ll find yourself genuinely interested in the people who are also hanging out there, and that means you’re more likely to enter int

How to talk about your work in public

“We make our fortunes and we call them fate.”

Chance IV comes to you, unsought, because of who you are and how you behave.

...Chance IV is so personal, it is not easily understood by someone else the first time around... here we probe into the subterranean recesses of personal hobbies and behavioral quirks that autobiographers know about, biographers

Fictive Kin • Pmarchive - Luck and the entrepreneur, part 1: The four kinds of luck

there is merit in stacking blocks one by one

“Having a shared set of narratives, concepts, and symbols is the basis, ultimately, for all culture — religious, national, ethnic, commercial, scientific, etc. How can you operate in biology if you’re not familiar with Darwin? How can you operate in tech if you’re not fluent in Aggregation Theory? You can’t. Even if you think the ideas are wrong, i

How Ideas Grow

you have to find the environment where these reference points become common