Thought provoking

To get status, you have to give up status.

ne of my favorite pieces of modern wisdom ever uttered comes from Jim Carrey:

“I’ve often said that I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame so that they could see that it’s not where you’re going to find your sense of completion … No matter what you gain, ego will not let you rest. He will tell you that you cannot stop until... See more

I can’t help but notice though that after a successful stint at building things that do scale (or at least giving it a really good, long try), many people seem to gravitate towards building things that don’t scale.

I have a theory that chasing things that scale makes you need therapy, and the therapy is pursuing things that can’t scale.

You’re either making in light mode or in heavy mode.

Light mode is fast and iterative, producing work that’s quick to make but just as quick to fade. It’s the mode of rapid experiments, side quests, and prolific posting. Heavy mode is slower, deliberate, and intentional (often hermit mode). It’s the mode of deep work that builds over time and

Make something heavy — Substack entry

Make Something Heavy

Anu open.substack.com

At a certain point we’re gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this. Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by by people... See more

David Foster Wallace Tried to Warn Us About these Eight Things

Technology, David Foster Wallace

what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation

erin glass twitter.com