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What is worthwhile?

101 Additional Advices

Kevin Kelly

Asking “what-if?” about your past is a waste of time; asking “what-if?” about your future is tremendously productive.

Daily Review | Readwise

Chaval al hazman (חבל אל הזמן)

Literally "shame on time"; referring to an amazing experience that you don't want to end

Steph Smith • Eunoia: Words that Don't Translate

How I feel while watching a great movie or reading a page-turning book

At the other side of the spectrum from boredom is addiction—not a disengagement but its dark reverse, a pathological degree of repetition or perseverance.

Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem

It seems rarely to occur to us, or rather we are encouraged to forget that much of the joy and satisfaction we might find in this world may stem from our purposeful involvement in the sorts of tasks we are told to see as mundane, trivial, and inconvenient.

theconvivialsociety.substack.com • Living in Expectation of the Unexpected Gift

Low expectations are a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we aim high, we’ll get better results.

Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories

"Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things... See more

pbs.org • John Gardner : Education and Excellence

To neglect any one of the three marriages is to impoverish them all, because they are not actually separate commitments but different expressions of the way each individual belongs to the world.

David Whyte • The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship

Miles Davis // "Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself."

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