Why dont we just do it?
I think I probably philosophically disagree with the statement that we've destroyed Earth. But this is about the mirror; this is about thinking larger and creating images that will solve these things as byproducts. If you fundamentally disagree with that perception, then there’s kind of like nowhere to go, right conversationally between us. But if
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“Why are we in all these conflicts? Because the images y'all make suck. That's the youth culture answer for you. The images y'all make suck. Marge is a better image, and it's gonna solve these things in a far more interesting way.'“
Reggie James
What makes us feel liberated is not total freedom, but rather living in a set of limitations that we have created and prescribed for ourselves.
Andrea Zittel • Andrea Zittel, "These Things I Know for Sure"
"The barnacle" the author explained "is confronted with an existential decision about where it's going to live. Once it decides.. . it spends the rest of its life with its head cemented to a rock.." End of quote. For a good many of us, it comes to that.
We've all seen men and women, even ones in fortunate circumstances with responsible positions who
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"Intelligence is going to be infinite. And for free."
Paper Bag Investor • Tweet
the mind has the same power of persuasion, conviction and even manipulation towards ourselves that it does towards the world.
What does this mean?
It means that you can convince yourself that stories and narratives are ‘true’ when they are not, in fact, actually true. It means that you can be just as convincing towards yourself as you can towards
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why is this list not the same as the current Nomad portfolio
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
This makes me think about what I'm interested in and what I subscribed to and spend my time listening to do and doing.
And cutting down everything until I can focus on what matters.
the ability to concentrate uh you know to get fascinated with something and really dig into it which as I got older I could choose what I concentrated on and and when I was in high school I was okay at it but I remember being down in my room thinking okay I'm going to work on my homework and do really well this year but then there were these taram
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When you believe the work before you is the single piece that will forever define you, it’s difficult to let it go. The urge for perfection is overwhelming. It’s too much. We are frozen, and sometimes end up convincing ourselves that discarding the entire work is the only way to move forward. The only art the world gets to enjoy is from creators
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f there's no images that people have been putting in, no reference points, people are just looking at surface stuff all day, and they're just going to keep making surface stuff