Is This Real Life?

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Maud Newton (@maudnewton.bsky.social)

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Where we invest our time also has a Return on Energy (ROE).

Return on Energy

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the fact that everything is ‘possibly’ fake and inconvenient or expensive to consider, means that most people just stop trusting most things as true (which in turn massively opens up what can happen, because you can just claim anything is fake and enough people will believe your or be unwilling or unable to sort out reality anyway) — this can also

SWL Week in Review

Bits of Sam Lessin’s latest email newsletter haven’t left me since I read it. I think you sign up on his website. Sorry, he doesn’t seem to have archives on the web anywhere.

You must mourn the loss of your younger self, the person who has gotten you this far but who is no longer equipped to carry you onward.

Brianna Wiest • The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

This really hit, but I like to think that in many ways I am a slightly smarter version of my younger self. I guess for some people there is a greater distance. Or I’m just in denial.

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truer words have never been spoken https://t.co/g5AKAG9RPF

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Marc Zao-Sanders • How People Are Really Using Gen AI in 2025

It’s worth reading the entire HBR post. I cannot help but infer that we are lonely and are growing more lonely as we spend so much time glued to our devices.

Starting a company is awesome if you want to feel like a piece of shit one day and king of the universe next day and just keep alternating back and forth forever and ever

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I can assure you that you do not need to start a company to feel this way.