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- This is all to say: it’s worth listening when a place calls to you. It’s worth thinking about whether the place you live enables your goals or stands in their way. And it’s worth noticing what surroundings speak of enchantment, cultivate the conditions you feel at home in, and aim toward them. Life is more malleable than we think. It’s a surprise t... See more
from surroundings that speak of enchantment by Tommy Dixon
- The other side is usually a dark place?
Murakami in The New YorkerRead fiction and essays by the author.
Not necessarily. I think it has more to do with curiosity. If there is a door and you can open it and enter that other place, you do it. It’s just curiosity. What’s inside? What’s over there? So that’s what I do every day. When I’m writing a nove... See morefrom The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami by Deborah Treisman
- Bruce Feiler. Or, as one of my favorite comics says: “It takes about seven years to master something. If you live to be 88, after age 11, you have 11 opportunities to be great at something. Those are your lifetimes. Use them.” Do not fall prey to the self-consistency fallacy. Learn something new. Change careers. Take a risk. Reimagine your identity
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- The difference between schools and libraries
From John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground History of American Education (via Austin Kleon):To begin with, libraries are usually comfortable, clean, and quiet. They are orderly places where you can actually read instead of just pretending to read.
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For some reason libraries are never age-segregated, nor do tfrom robertogreco by robertogreco
- you don’t want to create so much status pressure that you make status maximizing decisions instead of product maximizing ones.
from I took off all of 2023. Focused on health, family, travel… y...
road to speed product-market fit
Copenhagen Occult Club — Lobster Moon Tarot
- Not to debunk them for debunking’s sake, but to seek understanding and from there, make informed choices that hopefully add texture and value to our lives and the lives of those we engage in relationships with.
from WePresent | Cosmically Speaking: An essay by Holly Murchison
!not to debunk for debunking’s sake
