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I think a lot of people want to be but they don’t want to do. They want to have written a book, but they don’t want to write the book. They want to be
If you define your aim as a noble, generous, secure, kindly individual – knowing that all thingsare states of consciousness – you can easily tell whet
This teaching begins with self-observation. Secondly it asks, "What do you want?" And then itteaches detachment from all negative states and attachmen
We must practice separating ourselves from our negative moods and thoughts in the midst of allthe troubles and disasters of daily life. No one can be
Feel better.
“Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”— Charles Dickens (1812
“A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.”— Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), “The Idiot”
Boredom is experienced as having its source outside of you as ashortcoming in your surroundings, which fail to satisfy your needs. Perhaps that shortc
If you define your aim as a noble, generous, secure, kindly individual – knowing that all thingsare states of consciousness – you can easily tell whet
Make known.
Attention up for auction If you win an auction to get a click, you probably overpaid. Every other bidder stopped bidding, that’s why you won.
Exponential Tic tac toe with a 3 x 3 board is trivial and not much fun. Tic tac toe tic tac (5 in a row) with a 15 x 15 board is endlessly fasc
focus on quality. There’s no competitive advantage in volume. You are going to lose to the robots.
Think wisely.
The constant line that I’m trying to navigate with these tools is whether what I’m doing is unique, based on my opinion, perspective, experience, or w
one problem we have with our collective concept of intelligence is that many people have not been taught to discern the difference between thinking (p
Truth and falsehood are not opposites. The opposite of one truth is often another truth, and the opposite of one falsehood is usually another. - D
The problem is that LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness. Work costs nothing to an LLM. LLMs do not feel a need to optimize for their own (or
People who insist that every product decision should be metrics-driven would also have to logically admit that theirs will be the first job to get aut
I saw a post on Reddit today about AI that said, “AI is data, and data can only look backwards. Creativity looks forwards.” And I genuinely need to si
Live interconnected.
“It’s all invented anyway,” Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander write in The Art of Possibility, “So we might as well invent a story or a framew
The Having/Doing job gap It’s a dance between workers, bosses and the market. The most stable quadrant happens when a thoughtful and consistent
Assume misunderstanding It’s possible that you were undermined, endangered, cut off or disrespected. But if we begin with that, then the relati
Friendship, however, has always depended on a certain irrational generosity. A willingness to waste time together magnificently. To listen to the same
26 weapons grade parenting tips: 1/ Give them a "heads up," 5 minutes until bedtime, 10 minutes before leaving the playground 2/ Look at the world m
it is my strong belief that in a world of constant change and nearing AGI, rather than obsessing over teaching my children specific skills to compete
getting upset at your kids for making mistakes doesn't teach them to not make mistakes, it teaches them to hide their mistakes
Supporting arguments.
The secular decline in birth rates across the globe over the past seven decades has slowed population growth, raised average ages, and reshaped labor
Compared to what? 98% of the time, the state champ loses at nationals. Every billionaire but one isn’t the richest person in the world. Only one
The modern library Is this where books go to die? There are about 7500 public libraries in the US, and until recently, more than a third of the
“The grass is always greener on the side that’s fertilized with bullshit,”
When I started writing this book I honestly didn’t know if anyone would find it interesting. I didn’t really care though.I felt compelled to make some
During the first two centuries of the Roman Empire, there spread a practice known as hypomnēmata, a type of notetaking system, used as a tool for medi
“Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.” —Teller
reduce until it’s clear and refine until it’s right
Maybe cognitive minimalism— identifying which mental loops actually matter, and pruning the rest— isn't deprivation but liberation.
