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to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
iUnlock doors with it.iMeet lovers through it.iOrder food with it.iSummon cars with it.iEven meditate with it.Apple designed the iPhone too well.So we
Nobody talks enough about what the passive income movement did to the content quality of the entire internet. If you've tried to google "best [anythin
This is the problem with Substack:"The tragedy of a lot of modern technologies is that it is really trying to make posts and thoughts as short as poss
how we relate with and feel about ourselves
Imagine waking up and feeling curious about what the day might bring. Imagine feeling that subtle excitement about getting to know yourself more. Imag
Stop assuming that people are mad at you. Stop attempting to read people's minds. Stop trying to manage the thoughts and emotions of others. Let peopl
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer. – Simone Weil In 1989, when I was selected as the ne
I really like this visualization and I think it illustrates why you should maxx self-love (through jhana or whatever) before doing any other kind of "
The hacker class experiences extremes of a winner-take-all outcome of its efforts. On the one hand, fantastic careers and the spoils of some simulatio
Variety of work is the next point, and a most important one. To compel a man to do day after day the same task, without any hope of escape or ch
Now we have seen that the semi-theological dogma that all labour, under any circumstances, is a blessing to the labourer, is hypocritical and fa
Making systems resilient is fundamentally at odds with optimization, because optimizing a system means taking out any slack. A truly optimized, and th
The problem (or at least one of the problems) is that the twin edicts to simultaneously optimize your team and life and to be flexible in light of an
But you can’t optimize systems in a context that’s changing, especially if it’s changing in unpredictable ways. Removing inefficiencies when circumsta


