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Disasters are portals. They give people permission to exist outside the rules of capitalism or career or age or anything else that limits their behavior. And in those moments, they overwhelmingly choose to be kind and generous. There’s a weird phenomenon where survivors actually miss something about the disaster years later. They have a nostalgia... See more
Jasmine Bina • 5 Ideas Changing My Perspective
“Become a documentarian of what you do.”
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • WIP: the case for sharing your work in public
he thought about it and said he didn’t think we should be afraid to embrace whimsy. I asked him what he meant by whimsy, and he struggled to define it. He said it’s that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.
Donald Miller • A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Meanwhile, instead of systemic solutions, the culture offers individual ones. Optimization culture. Side hustles. “Maxxing.” Career content that treats a structural problem like a personal productivity challenge. The treadmill gets faster, and instead of questioning the treadmill, we buy better shoes.
I make good money. Why do I still feel like this?
While it is true, as generations of psychologists have found, that “who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love” — a process known as limbic revision — it is also true, as generations of self-aware humans have found, that whom we love depends in large part on who we already are. Our original wounds, our formative attachments, our... See more
How (Not) to Love: George Saunders on Unbreaking Our Hearts by Breaking Our Patterns
Courage changes things and courage changes us. It’s how we become. I have found that there is a “right-sized” fear inside any vision for change, and in taking courageous action we develop a part of ourselves that can talk back to and hold the fear without letting it lead... The courage we need is the courage to fail and stay... The courage to exit... See more
How patterns change, an astronaut's antidote to despair, and the lost Italian art of sprezzatura: living with ease and openness to wonder
Who we fall in love with is ultimately a reflection of what we value individually and how we view ourselves. There’s no escaping yourself in dating. No matter who you’re sitting across from, the one constant you come up against is your own insecurities, your own unresolved issues, your own doubts and fears.
materialists
The irony of American TikTok refugees flooding Xiaohongshu in 2025 underscored a deeper reality: that the US internet had become much more like China’s, not the other way around. “In trying to ‘protect’ Americans from China, our gripped-by-moral-panic political class has made us just like China. The government has decided that the only way to... See more