Reclaim The Brain

I should just write down and publish all of the best ideas I’ve ever had, as quickly and casually as I can, in succession.

As a method, marginalia remind us that all annotation is allusive, that all literature is connected to everything else, that the reader influences the writer as surely as the other way around, and even if the later has been dead for centuries.

Friction-maxxing is not simply a matter of reducing your screen time, or whatever. It’s the process of building up tolerance for “inconvenience” (which is usually not inconvenience at all but just the vagaries of being a person living with other people in spaces that are impossible to completely control) — and then reaching even toward enjoyment.... See more

Attention is first philosophy—

Philosophy is not only a system of thought but a mode of attentiveness, an exercised openness to what exceeds us yet calls us to deeper participation. Its systematic aspects are downstream of this attentiveness, and can certainly become a scaffolding by which others can train their own attention, but it is at its root... See more

Everybody wants to play in the Stream, but no one wants to build the Garden.

THE POORLY DEFINED PROBLEM OF BEING ALIVE

PTSD is literally defined as being “marked by an inability to construct a coherent story of our past.”