how to live
There is a school of thought that believes humans were brought into this universe to create. To live and struggle and love and sin and pay all of the costs required to create new things. The reason we are here, this belief, is precisely to experience the limitations and frictions that God cannot. We are here to pay the cost.
Packy McCormick • Costless Sacrifice
True friends are rarer than the achievements we set out to accomplish and should be valued accordingly.
Alex Hormozix.comThe main difference between video games and reality is that feedback loops are slower but there are far more ways to win.
Alex Hormozix.comNarrow the aperture of your attention enough to take in any one thing fully, and it becomes a portal to everything. Anneal that attention enough so that you see whatever and whoever is before you free from expectation, unfiltered through your fantasies or needs, and it becomes love.
Maria Popova • Favorite Books of 2025
There’s a quote from author Robert Brault that I think about often:
“We are kept from our goals not by obstacles but by a clear path to lesser goals.”
Sahil Bloom's Curiosity Chronicle • The Hard-Earned Win: Avoiding the Easy Path
The price we pay for dreaming is the possibility of drowning; the price we pay for not dreaming is the surety of coasting through life in a stupor of autopilot, landlocked in the givens of our time, place, and culture. The dreamer, then, is the only one fully awake to life — that bright technology of the possible the universe invented to prevail
... See moreMaria Popova • Arundhati Roy on the Deepest Measure of Success
“People who are direct are generally in touch with themselves and their desires. People who are habitually indirect usually aren’t.
This is because people who are indirect don’t have much experience with their inner world making contact with the outer world. They sit and theorize instead of saying it out loud and seeing... See more