words are true witchcraft and wizardry

How choosing the right words can make seemingly impossible outcomes achievable — so effectively, it must be magic.

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I know spells are effectively words but it didn’t hit me at the time so let’s not make it a big deal, please and thank you.

shashaank

the power of words: warm outbound > cold outreach

this made me think of that

Whenever you hear yourself saying “I have to…”, change it to “I choose to…” Remembering you have choices does wonders for your well-being.
Julie Zuho

“Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”

—Ibn Battuta

The word “practice” is such a wonderful word because it has time built into it: you can only practice if you practice

Deli Ham and Diet Coke are proof of man’s mastery over nature, even more so than the atom bomb. Nuclear fusion occurs in stars everyday. The Ham Obelisk required the hands of man to come into being.

Luke D. Ismas REBUILD ERA • Tweet

“Strategy is accepting that you are doing something better than the other and the other is doing something better than you. You have to pick your fight.”

- Axel Dumas, CEO of Hermes

We had reached this line of individualism’s final form: isolated, shrink-wrapped humans ready to self-actualize with each purchase.

The Post-Individual

William Poulos • William Poulos on Substack

If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, w... See more

Luke D. Ismas REBUILD ERA • Tweet

The Post-Individual

William Poulos • William Poulos on Substack

Farnam Street • This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio)