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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,”

Tech people somehow still think normies are not spinning up personal software already They're not doing it in Claude Code in a terminal like tech peop

Archives As AnchorsCollecting and archiving are ways to reclaim and own our attention—they are acts of meaning-making. These practices are rituals: ha

“The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone

Someone who has seen a lot of movies but has never made one has a certain kind of knowledge. The same is true for clients, patients and students. They

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt t

Feeling a feeling isn’t what makes an experience unbearable. Our suffering comes from clenching against what we feel.

The default Western view is that feeling good must somehow be earned by adding things to your life. However, it is my direct experience that feeling g

The principle here is that you cannot force yourself to let go, but you can let go of forcing yourself. It just requires humility and the vulnerabilit

Here is a real example from Norman Shumway discussing the rocky progress of heart transplantation. It took the crazy idea 22 years, between 1960 and 1

The opposite of mass The mass market is seductive. It’s ‘everyone’. The mass market is powerful, but it’s only slightly interested. The opposit

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

the people who shaped the last century left everything they knew in books that cost twelve dollars and honestly, the fact that most people still won't

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

Comparison is mostly pointless. Michael Jackson was much better at being Michael Jackson, and Prince was probably better at being Prince. You cannot r

if you have an addictive personality you are one hyperfixation away from weaponizing it into a generational fucking run

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

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.

The pull toward the analog is less about retro aesthetics than about what those objects symbolize: presence, tactility, memory that lasts.

$5300 in $100s: The verdict Yesterday I wrote about a free event we were throwing which cost $100 to attend, but the full $100 was

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

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

focus on quality. There’s no competitive advantage in volume. You are going to lose to the robots.

“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

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

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

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

Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart,[1] VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO (/də ˈwaɪ.ərt/;[2] 5 May 1880 – 5 June 1963) was a British Army