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As soon as you start down the slippery slope of doing things based on convention, you are diluting your independence and uniqueness, which is to say your reason for existing. Even the smallest things can start to bend you toward conformity.

While it seems so impossible to average people, it is very normal for these improvisational masters. That is because what they hear in their head is the result of all they have listened to and retained it because it spoke to their heart. The real core of genius is true love for whatever passion it is. If something strikes you so emotionally, you... See more

5:12 - FOMO isn't just "fear of missing out" on information; it's fear of missing out on existence itself. YOLO isn't "you only live once" it's you might never live again.

The negative consequences of forcing the forests to become legible to their planners didn’t become obvious until after second rotation of trees to be planted, about a century later. This is important to note: the first-order effects, what happens right away, are often beneficial; it’s the second and third-order effects of forcing legibility onto an... See more

Identity wants to emerge

Over the long run, any stable joinable key becomes an identity as it accumulates more correlated information about you.

We see this today in the ads ecosystem, where data brokers and cross-site advertising networks use data joining to correlate information about you and track you around the internet. Email addresses,... See more