Is This Real Life?

52 Things I Learned in 2024

Lists like this sure make me feel like an inferior slacker. Great read though!

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.

Paul Venuto • feed updates

From Adam Grant’s book, Think Again.

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson Addresses the 2025 LMU Undergraduate Commencement

youtu.be

Questlove is a treasure to humanity.

Abraham Maslow knows what’s up.

Via

When it's worry time in our house we have a script. I say, I'm going to share a worry with you. And then CW listens and says, I acknowledge your worry and understand how it is making you feel. And then we go to sleep and wake up and get back to work.

worry train. tripod light.

I love getting emails from Che-Wei + Taylor. Their objects are so lovely, but even more lovely is the humanity and vulnerability in their emails.

The truth is that most of life will unfold in accordance with forces far outside your control, regardless of what your mind says about it.

Michael A. Singer • The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

from Care Doesn’t Scale.