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Because we can’t ever explain everything. At some point we have to stop analysing and seeing through things and accept the unknowable.
Nobody Has A Personality Anymore
Be skeptical of any sort of external allies, and don’t trust the execution of anyone outside Palantir.
In the abstract, this is because the incentives of the other company will not line up with ours, and even if they do for the moment, they no longer will once the situation changes. In specific, other companies don’t have the same culture of... See more
In the abstract, this is because the incentives of the other company will not line up with ours, and even if they do for the moment, they no longer will once the situation changes. In specific, other companies don’t have the same culture of... See more
Joe Lonsdale • Links
And hadn’t I always gone into the world making everyone and everything a lesson and how it should be? Somehow I turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!
how should a person be? sheila heti
You can go through a lot of relationships and experience a lot of flavors of admiration and obsession and limerence — in other words, lots of things that kind of feel like love — without experiencing real love. (This is either terrifying or reassuring, depending on your perspective.)
50 things I know
FS: And so the left-hemisphere-dominated culture will see a decline in literature, in poetry and imagery?
IM: And creativity in general, because it’s so dependent on the ability to hold many things together that may not look like they gel, rather than collapsing them into certainty. We know from accounts of creativity that the important thing is... See more
IM: And creativity in general, because it’s so dependent on the ability to hold many things together that may not look like they gel, rather than collapsing them into certainty. We know from accounts of creativity that the important thing is... See more
Iain McGilchrist • Left-brain thinking will destroy civilisation
If it scares me, there is magic on the other side. I cannot emphasize this enough. If there’s ever a rule for life, this is it. Look, any of us could fill a book with our fears and all the perfectly legitimate and beautifully crafted reasons for them. But they don’t serve us. Only stepping through fear does.
Kamal Ravikant • Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It
To be reborn, you must die first. And this sure feels like death. I’m done downplaying what those I respect see in me.
Kamal Ravikant • Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It
how do I design a system for myself? to drive the objectives I want rather than pursuing metrics which are easiest to measure?