gilles

@gilles

fighting entropy

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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.

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If AI could write it, delete it.

It is a great mistake to confuse physical strength, dominance, violence, vulgarity, or brutality with masculinity. Masculinity is emotional stability, undaunted integrity, quiet courage, humility, generosity, and capacity for enduring love, or it is nothing.

Dee Hock • Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition Volume 1

years ago someone suggested using the word devotion instead of discipline and I swear it’s the only reason I am so committed to the things that I love ~ bc devotion is an act of love ~ while discipline feels like an act of force

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