recovery
“All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”
— Robin Sharma
— Robin Sharma
Reads with Ravi • Tweet
Reality is that which does not go away when you start a private group chat disagreeing with it
Venkatesh Rao on Substack
When drawing, the trick is to spend more time looking at the thing you are trying to draw than at your picture. This is true for writing, too.
Bruce Kasanoff • Henrik Karlsson on Substack

kind of shocked at how much mental energy is freed up if we stop trying to be special and important
nihilism disrespecter • Tweet
At a certain point we’re gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this. Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by by people
... See moreThe least sexy advice on behaviour change nobody wants to hear?
Lower your expectations.
We have a tendency to set goals in states of either excitement or desperation.
Which leads us to massively overestimate what we can commit to.
Especially in the beginning, prioritise ease over effectiveness.
Lower your expectations.
We have a tendency to set goals in states of either excitement or desperation.
Which leads us to massively overestimate what we can commit to.
Especially in the beginning, prioritise ease over effectiveness.