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From Irony to Earnestness: The Cultural Death of Cringe
Post-Culture by Sibling Studiopostculture.substack.com
One of the most underrated skills you can learn is the ability to ignore your mood and stick with the plan.
Gracie Vansubstack.comI think all romance is an enduring curiosity for another person.
Nix 🕊 • valley of things unsaid
It’s almost impossible to have an easy life and be interesting. Suffering is what gives people texture.
"The economy is just smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people." — @ShaanVP
David Perell • Tweet
When you look back at the most fruitful moments of your life years from now, you’ll be surprised to discover how many of them unfolded amid a big loss or a crisis or in the face of a giant unknown.
Heather Havrilesky • Tolerating Unknowns Will Make You Stronger
Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield titled one of his books, “After the Ecstasy, the Laundry.” Achieving enlightenment, he argues, does not preclude one from the daily, mundane tasks of life.
Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
in order to will any meaningful new project into existence, I actually must be untethered from reality. I need to view the world as bendable and controllable, not as this unchangeable force for me to analyze and carefully dodge around. So for me, “becoming more agentic” has really been a project in carefully maintaining a state of delusion.
“There is nothing either good or bad,” as Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet, “but thinking makes it so.