Thought provoking
If there’s something you want to do, do it. By doing it, you increase your “surface area of luck”, as Paul Graham says. The idea I most loved discovering was James Austin’s four types of luck, which is all about increasing the surface area of your luck.
You make your own luck.
The longer you live abroad, the more you realize you’ll always be a bit of an outsider, no matter where you are.
The 10 Biggest Lessons I Learned from Living in 5 Different Countries During My 20s
"the question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
- edsger dijkstra
Only a fool or an egomaniac would deny that chance shapes the vast majority of life. The time, place, culture, family, body, brain, and biochemistry we are born into, the people who cross our path, the accidents that befall us — these dwarf in consequence the sum total of our choices. Still, our choices are the points of light that flicker against ... See more
Maria Popova • The Marginalian
‘I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved, all the cities I have visited.’
We Are What We Read
Quote from Jorge Luis Borges
Said this to a friend but it applies to many:
I think you have a good guess what you should be doing, and there is no need to overthink it. Just decided that for the next 3 months you will execute on your inkling. After that, you can evaluate if you want to try something different. Course correcting too often than eats your bandwidth.
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I think you have a good guess what you should be doing, and there is no need to overthink it. Just decided that for the next 3 months you will execute on your inkling. After that, you can evaluate if you want to try something different. Course correcting too often than eats your bandwidth.
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Henrik Karlsson on Substack
When you have something to say, to express, any submission becomes unbearable in the long run. One must have the courage of one’s vocation and the courage to make a living from one’s vocation. The “second career” is an illusion! I was often broke too, and I always resisted any temptation to live any other way than from my painting... In the beginni... See more
Picasso on Success and Why You Should Never Compromise in Creative Work
“That is part of the beauty of all literature . You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
We Read. We Write. We Belong.
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.1
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.2
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seekin... See more
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.2
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seekin... See more