Dipan Patel
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Dipan Patel
The holidays are a good time to reconnect w/ people who’ve helped you get where you are. Find your senior year English teacher, say you appreciate her patience. Write to your last boss. You won’t be giving up anything. Gratitude feels good both to receive & to give.
X. It’s what’s happening
A good reminder from Scott Galloway.
The thing is, you probably have all the information you need already, you just can't bring yourself to sit down and listen to it, so you just keep chain-smoking podcasts and youtube videos, never really thinking, knowing deep down that the answers you seek are in the silence you're avoiding
Dylan O'Sullivansubstack.comYour brain is there to keep you alive, not happy. You need to do things that make you happy not just expect it from your intellect.
Did I read today?
Did I write today?
Did I exercise today?
admiration as instruction
And if you don’t know where to look to find your gifts: notice what you are inspired by. Notice who you admire. Our sources of inspiration are our guides. They take us towards our magic. They show us where to look to find our gifts. The inexplicable resonance we feel with people, places, things, and art is the universe
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I’ve been spending 4+ hrs a day talking to LLMs and I love it, it feels fun. But I’ve been having this feeling lately that it may just be another distraction and maybe if I just sat with my own thoughts longer, I’d get somewhere better AND faster. Not sure. Curious if others feel this too.
sari azoutx.com
“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.”
- Gary Provost