self renewal

I have a working theory that the anxiety I feel is actually a massive amount of positive energy. It just feels uncomfortable because I haven’t learned how to channel that much energy yet. When I’ve been able to let it flow freely, my whole body fills with bliss.

“You can do it like it’s a great weight on you, or you can do it like it’s part of the dance.” —Ram Dass

A startup is a story The story is useful because it brings people to work towards something together The story is limiting because employees let it dictate what they can and cannot do The story isn't real - a startup is just people and what they choose to do every morning

Authenticity is doing and saying what feels right to you in all moments. You have no judgement of yourself. You don’t overthink, perform, or strategize to get people to receive you in a specific way. You understand that your real tribe will stay, and the rest will fall away.

Have you considered that your chronic tensions may not actually be trauma stuck in your body but a sign that you gotta stretch and flex more

entrepreneurship as a vehicle for individuation

I have seen the fate of those who have not lived their own lives, and it is simply horrible. People who live out their destiny and fulfill it to the best of their knowledge and abilities have no reason for regret. — Carl Jung, October 20, 1959

"The metacrisis" is attractive because it suggests you can save the world by thinking about it extremely abstractly.

Demons must be named to be defeated, just as our deepest and most vile urges or emotions must be acknowledged to be integrated