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Your greatest priority should be to take life less seriously. Every bit of exhaustion you've felt has come from your own thoughts. You think you need
A Certain Kind of Personality At some point in grade school, Greta Gerwig began to think that she might want to be a movie director. But as she becam
if you treat someone like they are a good person with a good heart they will often work to make you correct
I think for years I was looking at my feet, I couldn’t look people straight in the eye, I was uncomfortable, I mean uncomfortable all the time, wherea
Then I had another thought: Physics disgusts me a little bit now, but I used to enjoy doing physics. Why did I enjoy it? I used to play with it. I use
Everyone wants to know how to be liked. But I think we all know, actually, how to be liked, it’s just that it’s hard. It takes attention and openness,
Therefore, what does it mean to live erotically in a world designed to suppress the erotic? It means making decisions that align with your aliveness,
I'm diagnosed schizophrenic, and the main barrier to re-entering the world after my first psychotic break was that I could no longer relate to the per
It’s really just a question of financial security versus your psychic security, because of the time you afford yourself, or being on your own schedule
And one of the great tragedies of our time is how thoroughly we are trained to distrust this kind of knowing. From a young age, we are encouraged to p
It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply
Preparing to do the thing isn't doing the thing. Scheduling time to do the thing isn't doing the thing. Making a to-do list for
Fantastic advice, for software builders: Headline driven development Here is a simple process for shipping software projects that works. First, deco
A while ago I got interested in being more agentic. Emmett Shear tweeted that it was teachable. He would train people by prompting them with certain q
Preparing to do the thing isn't doing the thing. Scheduling time to do the thing isn't doing the thing. Making a to-do list for
