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Lael Johnson

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Don’t shrink the vision to fit the doubt

Benji Taylor x.com

You can’t compete with people having more fun than you.

Emily Sundberg substack.com

‘Toys are not really as innocent as they look. Toys and games are the prelude to serious ideas.’

— Charles and Ray Eames

What is love? Ask 19 geniuses. Get 19 answers. • Plato: It's remembering a soul. • Freud: It's desire in disguise. • Buddha: It's letting go. • Nietzsche: It's dangerous weakness. • Aristotle: It's one soul in two bodies. • Kafka: It's a wound that... See more

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The paradox is that it takes discipline to stay open. Detachment is the easy reflex, like closing a window at the first sign of rain; it costs nothing once the latch is turned. Remaining receptive requires stamina, you must let experiences in without letting them wash you away, stay permeable enough to feel yet solid enough not to dissolve at every... See more

Romanticism Is Not A Weakness

Bubbling excitement for what the day holds. Novelty in the smallest of things. Unburdened by the clouds of worry that dim an adults life. Possibility painting the horizon.

The word “radical” was borrowed in the fourteenth century from the Latin radicalis, meaning “root.” Radical questioning is necessary because it is the roots, the essential foundations, of today’s problems that need to be excavated and interrogated. The more fundamental the question, the more fertile the ground for imagining.

Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures

"I don't want you to hang my portraits in your offices. Because a President is not an icon, an idol or a portrait. Hang pictures of your children instead. And before you make any decision, look into their eyes." — Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine