Thought provoking

What you do is pretend this is a high school math problem with a single right answer, you solve for the right answer using high school math, and then nobody can argue with you because apparently you haven’t made a decision. You’ve simply followed the data.

This is a massive problem in decision-making. We try to close down the solution space of any... See more

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."

- Rosa Parks

Your environment shapes you more than willpower.

If you want to know what the sum total of your thinking is, look around you - it's everything that you have around you in your life. If you don't like what you have around you, then change your thinking.

radical agency is about finding real edges: things you are willing to do that others aren’t, often because they’re annoying or unpleasant

the acceleration of things has made us miserable because our choices are no longer sufficiently limited that we feel we can accomplish everything we want. We’ve created an acceleration and an explosion of choice, which will permanently leave us feeling fundamentally unsatisfied or under-optimized