Neil

After hearing someone say that most people think many of the same thoughts day after day, the filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan said, “I’ve been trying to change some of the thoughts that I think moment to moment. And I’ve realized that the group of thoughts that have become who I think I am—most of those had been passively chosen. You know, ‘this is wh... See more

Most people don’t need more knowledge. They need a clear path. A simple system. A way to take action without getting overwhelmed or second-guessing every step.

There’s a scene in Hamlet where he’s pleading with his mother to break some of the destructive patterns in her life. “Assume a virtue, if you have it not,” he tells her. “Refrain to-night, and that shall lend a kind of easiness to the next abstinence; the next more easy: For use can almost change the stamp of nature.

Retirement is our clever way of extending the Nothingness of Money out while we are healthy enough to appreciate it. We work hard in our youth so that we don’t have to when we’re older. We no longer have to be on a deathbed to fade money out of our thoughts, as we can do that with decades left to spare.

We go through life thinking everyone else has it better than us until we grow up and realize we’re all in our own tiny boats of self-doubt and second-guessing.”

instead of “building an audience,” build a world. build a digital garden-ecosystem, that exists — first and primarily — for itself. a world that doesn’t need likes, traffic, subscribers, or clicks — in order to validate its existence.

build a world that the RIGHT people — your kindred people — will discover, will gravitate towards, and fall in love... See more

Your sanity depends on you finding the comedy in the chaos

One day, you will wake up and realize that you are the same age as all the people you thought were "old" many years ago, and whether you feel at peace will depend on whether you took the risks that seemed bold at the time, but that were in retrospect the only obvious thing to do.