Justin Mather
@itsjustmath
All puns intended.
Justin Mather
itsjustmath.net
Finish something. Anything. Stop researching, planning, and preparing to do the work and just do the work. It doesn’t matter how good or how bad it is. You don’t need to set the world on fire with your first try. You just need to prove to yourself that you have what it takes to produce something.
James Clear • Finish something. Anything. Stop researching, planning, and preparing to do the work and just do the work. It doesn’t matter how good or how bad it is. You don’t need...
Thinking about brands like Rapha or the recent uptick of social “members only” gyms like Be More and X Denver.
This LinkedIn post calls them “clubhouses” but I prefer the inclusive nature of “third places” but I do wonder if the pay to play acts a filtering mechanism.
My hunch is that these third places that are going to scale and be monetized be related to things that culture is obsessed with like work, exercise, commerce
Speaking and typing are the best mediums for getting a thought out before its lost, but I'm convinced that synthesizing concepts and ideas is best done longhand (as the additional friction/effort to write it out acts as its own compression filter).
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Among all the diseases of the mind there is none more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery. - Richard Steele
This is the danger of social media mind rot.
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Biking is the closest thing to flying like a bird that most of us will ever see.
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Style is what you can't help doing
Problem: Modern technology takes away our agency in exchange for addiction (dependency)
Deeper reasons?
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. - Victor Hugo
Music bypasses our brains and goes straight to our hearts. Auditory (with basis in conversation) hits us different than written (as it requires processing).
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