gilles

@gilles

fighting entropy

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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. Without them, our lives get made up for us by other people.

Ursula K. Le Guin • Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books

“Shortcuts will cut you short. There are no shortcuts in life.”

- Narendra Modi (PM of India, on Lex Fridman)

Your work is never going to be good enough (for everyone). But it’s already good enough (for someone).

Seth Godin • The Practice: Shipping Creative Work

someone said that we should stop saying that songs make us cry and start saying that they let us cry, which I think is beautiful.

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perfume & letters substack.com

news is basically engineered anxiety. it’s abstract, external, & almost always negative. nothing about it affirms your agency or intimacy. but people cling to it because it’s a cheap way to feel informed, like they’re plugged into the world. tldr: reading most news is horrible for you.

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The future belongs to people who can think about a hard problem for more than 10 minutes without doing anything else.