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The paradox is that it takes discipline to stay open. Detachment is the easy reflex, like closing a window at the first sign of rain; it costs nothing

What is love? Ask 19 geniuses. Get 19 answers. • Plato: It's remembering a soul. • Freud: It's desire in disguise. • Buddha: It's letting go. • Nietz

nothing great has ever been made from a place of indifference

Maybe cognitive minimalism— identifying which mental loops actually matter, and pruning the rest— isn't deprivation but liberation.

I’ve got a theory. When people don’t create music art ideas anything… they start creating problems instead. Unused energy gets weird.

The paradox is that it takes discipline to stay open. Detachment is the easy reflex, like closing a window at the first sign of rain; it costs nothing

Any situation is fixable if you’re good with words because words literally make up the meaning infrastructure, control the traffic of desire, and reor

“I think you really can feel it with companies where the people creating the products are inherently interested in culture,” he says. “They’re not tou

Sometimes, back pain is felt in the thighs or even the ankles. But treating the part that hurts does nothing to address the real problem. Most b

If you want to change people's minds, you have to be patient. Almost nobody will come around to your position on the first encounter. Plant the seed,

We've fallen for the trap of thinking something doesn't exist if it isn't on the Internet. Maria Popova: "The internet is a surface level of the oce

Just like me, but... The actor, artist, mathematician, pianist, speaker, leader, tech nerd: Just like me, but talented. I’m not so sure. It

Optimism is a belief about possible outcomes, but equanimity adds a bias toward action, regardless of what happens.

The takeaway here is that sometimes the best way to solve problems is not to solve them, or to not make them into problems at all. We think that we al

Putting aside the need to earn a living, I think there are four great motives for writing, at any rate for writing prose. They exist in different degr

Aristotle invented the word “entelechy” to refer to a thing that has its own principle of development within it, a vital force that propels it forward

I will have to remember, ‘I am here today to cross the swamp, not to fight all the alligators.’” (Rosamund and Benjamin Zander)

If you knew how every complaint you voice trains your brain to hunt for more things to complain about, then you would bite your tongue until it bled b

You can’t compete with people having more fun than you.

“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.

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

Bill Bernbach, founder of advertising agency DDB, reminds us that it is not enough to be right — you must also be compelling: "A dull truth will not

We used to think that the earth is flat. Galileo was convicted of heresy for teaching that the earth isn’t the center of the universe and that it revo

The paradox of ‘on trend’ By the time you get around to embracing the fashion of the moment, it’s almost certainly too late. The leading edge is defin

“The trouble with market research is people don’t think what they feel, they don’t say what they think, and they don’t do what they say.” (David Ogilv

if coding was the moat why isn't everyone rich?

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

Doris Lessing on reading: “There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading on

Impatience is an expensive emotion. Every app wants your decision in seconds. Every employer wants results this quarter. Every investment platform pr

On: "To ignite the human spirit through movement"

Amazon: “to be Earth's most customer-centric company"

Stripe: “Increase the GDP of the internet.”

Sublime is an ethos-driven company. Here is what we believe: Intention > Attention The destruction of our attention compromises our ability to make su

Sublime is an ethos-driven company. Here is what we believe: Intention > Attention The destruction of our attention compromises our ability to make su

material solutions can't fix spiritual problems

My top takeaways from Matt MacInnis , COO/CPO at Rippling : 1. Extraordinary results demand extraordinary efforts. “If you ever find yourself in the

san francisco has a strange gravity, attracting people who want to build the future, and also those who want to be seen building the future. the resul

Assume bugs Of course it’s not going to work the first time. You’ll need to fix errors in the code. Adjust errors in measurement. Deal with changing c