inspiration
Cabel Sasser, Panic - XOXO Festival (2024)
youtu.beStop trying to be based and just be basic.
Venkatesh Rao on Substack
One thing I’ve come to appreciate is that having a vision is not the same as executing it. There is no shortage of ambitious ideas. Time and time again, it is when the rubber of ambition meets the road of practicality that things get tough.
We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car... See more
Bill Watterson • SOME THOUGHTS ON THE REAL WORLD BY ONE WHO GLIMPSED IT AND FLED
When you take a hike and you feel a sense of awe at everything that you're seeing, you're experiencing the sublime. In most of life, this sense of “smallness” is experienced as a humiliation. But the sense of smallness in the presence of the sublime has an oddly uplifting effect.
I love the idea of coming face to face with our cosmic insignificance... See more
I love the idea of coming face to face with our cosmic insignificance... See more
Sari Azout • Can I Ramble for a Sec?
Two steps! The first step is totally meaningless. You can have one good day and sink back into your old patterns like it’s nothing. You need 2 good days, 2 good days in a row. Then you have something to lose, something worth defending. You have a trend, you’re going somewhere, dim light peers through that great scrim.
Psychokinetics • Psychokinetics
People pay to see others believe in themselves.