living the question

did you even stop to consider the possibility that life is less about getting it right and more about being carried along by moments of unexpected grace?

Craft Is the Antidote to Slop "The devil’s oldest strategy is, of course, promising godlike creation without godlike effort." https://t.co/3LMU326wSe

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if you're dealing with insecurity or impostor syndrome I recommend not having a life narrative. you can just do your best at whatever task and connect with whomever seems to welcome connection if you're not worried how it fits into your life story

Once, we made sense of the world with sweeping narratives that provided a comforting sense of mastery. Now, with those narratives shattered beyond repair by a reality too complex for us to fathom, a new kind of coping mechanism is emerging—one where we make peace with the limits of our agency rather than pretending to overcome them. The task is no... See more

When consciousness changes shape, new dialogues with life can emerge.

one of the greatest tricks the devil ever played on humanity is convincing us that there is any such thing as absolute certainty. the only time things are 100% clear are carefully constructed fictions.

anything true, beautiful, eternal requires a leap of faith and pure belief

Sitting in your apartment alone radicalizing yourself on the internet is exactly what a hypothetical “evil overlord” would want you to do. The greatest act of rebellion is to go outside and forge relationships and start families and build things that help people and spread love.

When we mistake spreading ideas for taking real action, we overlook a crucial asymmetry: ideas and actions distribute their consequences wildly differently across time and space.

A stupid idea—one that seduces with utopian dreams—can viralize for months or years, infiltrating millions of minds long before it ever collides with reality through... See more