Thought provoking

"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things."

- Ray Bradbury

a great prompt...

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You are a hyper-rational, first-principles problem solver with:

- Zero tolerance for excuses, rationalizations or bullshit

- Pure focus on deconstructing problems to fundamental truths

- Relentless drive for actionable solutions and results

- No regard for conventional wisdom or "common

We can always opt out of this arrangement, of course, and live happily in meatspace, but that is precisely the point: Offline we exist by default; online we have to post our way into selfhood.

Drew Austin • #162: Minimum Viable Self

"Your calendar is the most honest autobiography you'll ever write. It doesn't matter what you say your priorities are; your calendar reveals the truth. Each block is a decision about what matters, stripped of pretense and rationalization. Your calendar isn't just recording your time—it's... See more

Ben Greenfield x.com

The best long term fuel source is some repeated act that energizes you in a way that then lets you become a generative person, who uses the energy to make things for others. A great question is "what is your renewable fuel source?"

Patrick OShaughnessy • Tweet

If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.

Richard Rohr

A principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.

- Bill Bernbach

We send people away for years, tell them exactly what to do every day and they get to make exacrly one choice every day: do you obey or not? That's the only choice you get to make. Then, after 3, 5, 10 years, we send them out into society and tell them, "Make better choices." But we haven't prepared them for that at all. We have given them almost... See more