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Switch from team “I will one day write something good” to team “I have no choice but to write a piece of shit” and then take off your “bad writer” hat

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

Es war ja nicht so, als könnte ich die Schule nicht leiden. Ich ging sogar ganz gerne hin. Wegen der Leute. Was also gewissermaßen erklärte, wofür ich

I have often noticed that my experience of reality improves if I write and think about something.

To mythologize your life means to seek guidance not only from your intellect but also from your imagination. It means to become able to take fantasy s

To mythologize your life is to start treating it as a story — because it is one. It is to recognize and make use of the fact that the story of your li

In the last few decades, human life became even more confusing and psychologically demanding due to rapid technological development. This exploded to

Changes in the structure of human society, mostly influenced by the Enlightenment period and the Industrial Revolution, led to the weakening and disap

Grief is not just an emotion—it’s an unraveling, a space where something once lived but is now gone. It carves through you, leaving a hollow ache wher

“On funerals, loss, grief, friendship, and support: It's not about knowing what to say. It's about being there when nobody knows what to say. The only

In the spirit of the friends who inspired us, we try to keep our events simple. What’s made it easier is repetition; we almost always serve the same m

With Schedule Tetris out of the way, I asked myself, what does a great event look like? To me, the characteristics are: • Intentional guest list, sm

To structure our events, we landed on 4–6 adults, us included. With this size, you can have a shared conversation and there’s less effort to prepare f

We started by identifying a regular set of times where we as a family are available. For us, Sunday evenings were consistently the best times for us.

Maybe the future of coding isn’t just faster. Maybe it’s also slower in a way, on purpose.

No matter how rapidly technology changes, I am coalescing around some core beliefs: Things that are worth doing are worth doing well. Things that are

I love designing and building things for the web, but I’m mourning an industry that does not share the ideals I once thought it did. I understand why

I have no idea how to manage AI at present except by curtailing use, because a tool producing a cheap reward with minimal input and no friction can on

friction = focus, focus = product One of my early AI experiments, exploring AI as a lens in Marshall McLuhan-like thinking, was to connect speech reco

The randomness is not a flaw in the mechanism. It is the mechanism. Here is why. When you draw a random card and are told it represents your current s

Poets know this. Sonnets work not despite the constraint of fourteen lines and a rhyme scheme, but because of it. The form forces particular choices,

Each of those responses is a projection. And each projection is data about the person’s current emotional state, their habitual narratives, their rela

“A tarot card is a Rorschach blot with better production values and a stronger narrative tradition. The ink blot asks: What do you see? The tarot asks

Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous 'I don’t know.' Wisława Szymborska

Obviously, collaborations can work with idea generation too, but I think the most important part of idea generation is getting ideas yourself, then ta

There is a well-established phenomenon in creativity research sometimes called the paradox of choice: the observation that unlimited options frequentl

This is your prompt: What would you write if you weren’t afraid? Set a timer for ten minutes. Don’t worry. No one’s going to read a word. You can shre

Do You Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day? - Shannon Odell

AMPK enhances your metabolism is by stimulating the creation of more mitochondria, a process called mitochondrial biogenesis. Having more mitochondria

The reason rapamycin has so many diverse applications is thanks to a property that Sehgal had observed, but never explored, which is that it tends to

A helpful phrase to remember when dealing with distractions of any kind is, let it come, let it be, let it go. Don’t try to suppress it, just let it c

When someone with a regimented practice that’s gone stale comes to me for advice, one suggestion I almost always give is, “see if you can just do noth

In my own experience, for example, I long noticed I was triggered by people who were loud and overly expressive. I eventually realized that this was b

Die intensive Bindung verliert heute zunehmend an Bedeutung. Sie ist vor allem unproduktiv, denn allein schwache Bindungen beschleunigen Konsum und Ko

Es war einer von diesen Tagen, wie sie im Leben nicht sehr oft vorkommen. Ich konnte mich noch erinnern, wie ich als Kind das erste Mal merkte, dass i

Plötzlich wurde ihm bewusst, was er seit einiger Zeit immer öfter fühlte: Er war in seinem Leben an einem besonderen Punkt angelangt. Nachdenklich hol

This is because you can type faster than you can handwrite. When it’s possible to keep up with a speaker and type verbatim notes, that’s what students

There is no reason the world must stay this way, the internet has already rebirthed some informal skill transfer that once existed. This constitutes a

The kids are joining running clubs, buying “dumb” phones, woodworking, rocking Walkmans, joining supper clubs, etc because their lives have been swall

Was dem Aktionär gegeben wird, wurde dem Arbeiter zuvor gestohlen. Friedrich Engels