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when someone tells me to keep writing, it feels like a command to keep living.

Everyone wants to be picked, but no one wants to organize the collective ‘we’. It’s the ‘we’ that creates a school of thought, a movement, a network,

Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to cho

The value of a position in chess consists of its probability of victory for the player. Moves are evaluated according to how they affect this probabil

I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first thought is always someone else’s; it’s always what I’ve already heard about

We need more vocabulary around the experience of thinking, as in: -thinking qua “directing my inner monologue along certain pathways” - thinking qua

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The text actually moves back and forth between all of these. Few novels pay less attention to the rules of fiction than Zen and the Art of Motorcycle

surprise may be a better proxy for creativity than quality. A polished output is not necessarily creative, but a surprising one might be. Yet even sur

“The strongest version of you is buried under the habits you're afraid to break.”

# on shortification of "learning" There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely the

Avoid content made after 2016 - Something happened in 2016. The internet became less weird, less creative. Whatever the cause, pre-2016 content has a

Distractions divert you from your goals, while opportunities align with and propel you toward them. For example, Americans spend an average of 11 hour

re: many genAI apps can do 'anything and everything' i used to tell this funny story to a lot of consumer founders: when one-shot TTS first started

A lot of companies don’t make it because in the process of trying to get many things right, they don’t get anything right.Why are they in such a hurry

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