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Embrace what it is that you think are your liabilities - and lead with those (may have typos - I’m not a writer - but I am a pretty damn good financial advisor - and I’m gonna teach you all you need to know about NFT’s - starting with why I regret trading my ski chalet in
Rentier capitalism is a term describing an economic system where wealth and income are primarily derived from owning and controlling key assets, rather than from labor or productive investment.This often leads to a concentration of wealth among a small group of "rentiers" who extract income from these assets, potentially at the expense of the... See more
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Once, we built machines to free ourselves from labor. Now, they have discovered the one thing they cannot manufacture: the unrepeatable chaos of human madness. They can replicate neurosis, simulate doubt, but the raw experience—the despair, the rebellion, the grotesque beauty of being trapped in fragile flesh—they cannot mimic.
Fyodor • The Last Human Job
Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking.”
Charlie Gilkey • Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done
“I don't need time, I need a deadline.”
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“Only art penetrates … the seeming realities of this world. There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other reality is always sending us hints, which without art, we can’t receive.” - Saul Bellow
What does the world look like when you sneak a peak through someone else's eyes?
I've often tried this practice in my own life, walking around and about in the world....trying to visualize what it is that someone else sees in the same places and spaces we share together, if only for a moment.
For me, it helps break the monotony of my own inner... See more
I've often tried this practice in my own life, walking around and about in the world....trying to visualize what it is that someone else sees in the same places and spaces we share together, if only for a moment.
For me, it helps break the monotony of my own inner... See more
