You could theoretically change your life at any moment. Move here, date that person, work on that startup, write that blog, dye your hair, adopt a dog. Should I stay, should I go? I don’t know if this agency is freedom or burden. Perhaps all the best things are both.

One of the biggest reasons it gets harder to do new things as you get older is that new things are generally undignified at first (indeed, this is an excellent heuristic for discovering them) and the older you get, the more dignified you're expected to be.

we’re going to look back at how we designed the world around computers with the same regret that we look at how we’ve designed cities around cars

you’re not building a product you’re engineering culture

Too many people think freedom is the ability to do anything you want, instead of the discipline to not be a slave to your compulsions.

fast forward a year from now. your life is the best it's ever been, entirely as a result of your own choices. what choices did you make now and in the coming months that created that reality for you?

“Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.” – Kurt Vonnegut

A degree of relaxation is necessary to have good ideas because one doesn't have them so much as receive them—and one cannot receive anything with clenched fists.

What would it be like to run your life at the speed of your own soul, instead of always feeling like you need to speed up or slow down to match someone else?