Thought provoking
Hot take: Quitting your worst habit will change your life faster than starting your best habit. Stop the leak before you fill the bucket.
Sharran Srivatsaax.com
Reminds me of the hedonic treadmill
Two Sides, One Coin
There are no crests without troughs, no fronts without backs, no on without off.
Alan Watts
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
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Is there such a thing as the present moment? Is there really a "now" from which we can wander? Why would anyone choose to look at this vast sky through a straw?
Our appetite for life is so big that living just one life doesn’t always feel like enough. We want to know what other people’s lives are like, and we want other people to live some of our lives, too.
This life gives you nothing
All desire is a desire for being.”
We think we want things, but every desire points to a way of life, a kind of person we long to become. Objects seduce us not with their utility but with their promise of transcendence—status, attention, belonging.
We think we want things, but every desire points to a way of life, a kind of person we long to become. Objects seduce us not with their utility but with their promise of transcendence—status, attention, belonging.