shifting perspectives
things that make you change the way you see something
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shifting perspectives
"When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life."
Barbara Sher • Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want
- Contrary to what everyone expected, AI is disrupting knowledge work, while blue collar work and skilled trades remain safe.
Mostafa Khaled • #2010 – Marc Andreessen | Joe Rogan Experience • Podcast Notes
“WE HAVE TO PAY”
But what if we get to?
Imagine looking at the exchange of money as an alternative way to say things like:
Thank you!
Please keep going.
My life is better with this in it.
A signal of gratitude carries more weight than a forced action
Alex Tan • #076 Consider This!
18/ One day we will vanish and our problems will vanish with us.
Problems are a feature, not a bug.
Problems are for the living, not for the dead. Problems are an excellent indicator that you are alive.
The state of no problems, is the state of death.
Punktwitter.comAccomplishments just feel like inevitabilities that you have to work really hard for.
FOMO is good. Being plugged in is good. There is valuable info at all levels from twitter gossip to philosophy books. You should stay plugged in. You can manage anxiety and beat the House without resorting to shaming social platforms into managing attention for you. That's a terrible yielding of agency.
Venkatesh Rao • Against Waldenponding - by Venkatesh Rao Against Waldenponding
People don’t want you to be perfect.
What they want is to feel connected to you.
What they want is to feel connected to you.
Joe Hudson • Tweet
Paradigm Shifts
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this is a really great article: many great scientists were intensely spiritual (Bowie, Einstein, Tesla) but the spiritual aspects of their inspiration were oppressed. makes me wonder if reason and religion are fundamentally connected, even though we see them as opposites.
Possibly the most counterintuitive thing in life is that if you’re tired, you can work out to gain more energy.