the good life

3. Your clutter is just unmade decisions.

Look around your home. That pile of papers? An unmade decision. The box of old cables? An unmade decision. The clothes that don’t fit? Unmade decisions.

Clutter is not just stuff. It is the physical weight of procrastination and indecision. It is the visual noise of “I’ll deal with this later.” Simplifying... See more

While our brains naturally conserve energy (the "law of less work"), studies consistently show a powerful link between embracing optimal, meaningful challenges and greater life satisfaction—what researchers call eudaimonic well-being (fulfillment through growth and purpose), which often surpasses the fleeting pleasure of mere comfort (hedonic... See more

The acceleration of contemporary life also plays a role in this lack of being. The society of laboring and achievement is not a free society. It generates new constraints. Ultimately, the dialectic of master and slave does not yield a society where everyone is free and capable of leisure, too. Rather, it leads to a society of work in which the... See more

sanity, in this view, is just compliance that has been culturally sanctioned. it is not a measure of truth, it is a measure of usefulness.

so when you feel like you’re losing it and you can’t keep up or when you spiral when the world feels uninhabitable, it might not be because something is wrong with you. it might be because your body is trying to... See more

As Charlie Munger says:

“It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.”