self renewal
explorations in how individuals and institutions can adapt, evolve, and renew their sense of vitality when they become stagnant.
self renewal
Standing for something isn’t just about writing it down. It’s about believing it and living it.
David Heinemeier Hansson • Rework
“The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.” -Jonathan Swift
We are very fluent in blunt, materialistic, capitalist questions: What? How soon? How much? What I hope that we can learn to do is add questions of moral imagination to that mix: questions like “Why?” and “To what human effect?” and “How much is enough?”
The On Being Project • Living the Questions
"Utopias are dreams of collective deliverance that in waking life are found to be nightmares."
- John Gray, Black Mass
- John Gray, Black Mass
Paul Millerd on Substack
Universities claim to promote social mobility but inadvertently perpetuate social hierarchies, whereas the military is an explicit hierarchy that inadvertently promotes social mobility.
Rob Henderson on Substack
We put such pressure on ourselves to know exactly who we are and what we want in every moment; it’s okay for some things to be fuzzy. People who identify with having “so many issues” are often just people who don’t have immediate or perfect closure on the ever-evolving experience of being human.
Katherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
The more defensive you are about a belief you have, the more likely that that belief is standing in the way of your freedom.