Optimal grip

Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting... See more

Andrej Karpathy x.com

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On those who find themselves having others “utter all kinds of evil” against them on account of Jesus or who suffer for carrying the name “Christian,” Jesus is not talking about the so-called war on Christmas, what decorations appear on the winter-season coffee cup, or whether the mall rings with sounds of “Happy holidays” rather than “Merry... See more

Just a moment...

This love ethic must be at the center of our whole life, or it cannot be effective or real in the crucial moments of conflict. We have to practice drawing our lives from this new source, in thought, word, emotion, and deed, every day, or we will never be prepared for the major confrontations or the surprise humiliations that will come our way.

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The goal of nonviolence is always winning the friendship and the understanding of the supposed opponent, not their humiliation or personal defeat. It must be done to eventually facilitate the process of reconciliation, and we ourselves must be willing to pay the price for that reconciliation.

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“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”

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Iris Murdoch

A quote from Existentialists and Mystics

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Tobias van Schneider @vanschneider

Playing is the whole point

If your life is cluttered, your creativity will be too.

If you are unfocused, your creative expression will be too.

If your brain is overstimulated, your ideas won’t have enough oxygen to breathe.

If your self-worth is tied to your last post, painting, or paycheck, then creativity will always feel like a rigged game.

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Just a moment...

Just a moment...

Just a moment...

A quote from Existentialists and Mystics

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Tobias van Schneider @vanschneider

Anna Seirian • The unbearable weight of trusting your creativity without knowing if it will work