juliana ong

"The economy is just smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people." — @ShaanVP

Authenticity simply can’t survive this environment of constant performance – we become alienated from our own actions when every moment is filtered through the question of how it will be received.

Defining time well spent for yourself is one of the most important tasks of going day to day in this life.

But choice is not the same as freedom. Freedom is actually the ability to make a choice in the middle of restrictions.

My advice for travel is the same as it is for most things in life: question accepted wisdom and authority. Be open to disaster and strangers. Occasionally let your aloneness devour you. Shred the itinerary. You have to do interesting things to have interesting thoughts. Stop being so fucking safe.

The essay suggests that in high-energy emotional states, such as falling in love, grief, awe, psychedelics, deep meditation, the brain becomes molten, its patterns loosened, more open to reorganisation. The person we focus on in these states becomes like a mold for the cooling metal, shaping how our thoughts settle, what habits crystallise, what... See more

There are the two convictions: one that focuses on the numbers and one that feels.

“You can create a lot of meaning in your own life by helping someone else do something that is meaningful to them.”