On interesting

“I want to do a different thing. I want to actually improve over time. I want to develop my own takes. I want to understand everything. And this is how the podcast improves over the long run too - by me becoming smarter and learning more shit. That is the underlying beta. Everything else is a temporary benefit at best (and more often, a total

“When it comes to business and careers, the more interesting people will succeed and capture more upside than ever before.

Because the uninteresting ones will get commoditized (hello 🤖). 

And by interesting I mean being capable of analyzing, deciding, and executing in a way few others can. 

Generating more

“I came to understand the [meditation] task not as emptying your head of thoughts, but rather resisting the tendency to narrate things to yourself in words. I noticed that this interior monologuing would lead me along familiar, superficial trains of thought, to recent memories associated with certain feelings, say, and soon enough back to mundane a

“The next day we had a late breakfast and Susie and Lucy began reminiscing. I excused myself and wandered around the grounds, eventually coming upon a high hedge that surrounded a swimming pool. I lay down on a lounger next to the pool and took out my pen and notebook to write, but it was hot, and I soon fell asleep.

After a while, I awoke

“The process of making art is the process of becoming a person with agency, with independent thought, a producer of meaning rather than a consumer of meanings that may be at odds with your soul, your destiny, your humanity, so there’s another kind of success in becoming conscious that matters and that is up to you and nobody else and within your re

“Consider how different your experience of the world might be if you engaged in every activity with the attention you might give to landing a plane.”
— Rick Rubin The Creative Act

“These transmissions are subtle: they are ever-present, but they are easy to miss. If we aren’t looking for clues, they’ll pass us by without us ever knowing. Notice connections and consider where they lead.” — Rick Rubin The Creative Act

“If something strikes me as interesting or beautiful, first I live that experience. Only afterward might I attempt to understand it.

Though we can’t change what it is that we are noticing, we can change our ability to notice.”

— Rick Rubin The Creative Act