Is This Real Life?

Brad Barrish

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson Addresses the 2025 LMU Undergraduate Commencement

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Questlove is a treasure to humanity.

as if the worst thing in the world is unstructured free time.

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I love it when elle posts stuff like this. She’s always so insightful.

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.

Smart people are a dime a dozen and often don’t amount to much. What counts is being creative and imaginative.

Invent and Wander Quotes by Jeff Bezos

The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralise the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be

Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

I’d like to thank the handymen and women of YouTube for uploading helpful videos like 12 years ago before it became impossible to find any information on the internet.

My Internet: Liz Franczak

Amen

It’s tempting to trade credibility for fame.

Seth Godin • The fame/trust inversion

If I was ever going to retire, I certainly wouldn’t tell anybody about it. You just wouldn’t hear from me again. It’s like saying, “I’m not going over to your house tonight.” And you go, “Well, you weren’t invited.” And I say, “I know, but I’m not coming over.”