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The thing that no one ever tells you about your calling is that it’s boring. Oh, everything is interesting if you’re interested… shut up. Yes, it will be exhilarating and fun and fluid and and natural and meaningful. It will also be tedious. It will hurt. You will encounter obstacle after obstacle until you feel like you’re in a video game with... See more
blueprints and
You cannot fear something that you do not know. Nobody is afraid of the unknown. What you really fear is the loss of the known. That’s what you fear.
J. Francis Stroud • Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
2026 Reading List
Katabasis, RF KuangThe Colony, Annika Norlin
The Signals are Talking, Amy Webb
The Futurist James Cameron, Rebecca Keegan
The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch
The Feeling of Iron, Giaime Alonge
Trip, Amie Barrodale
The Peepshow, Kate Summerscale
Empire of AI, Karen Hao
There is no antimemetics Divison, QNTM
Stolen Focus
When We Were Real
Sam Harris once said, about smoking weed, that everyone he knows who smokes weed would benefit from smoking less, and everyone he knows who doesn’t smoke weed would benefit from smoking more. I feel the same way about the pursuit of self-knowledge. If you’ve never looked within, you should probably start. But if you look within all the time, maybe... See more
max nuss • The False Promise of Understanding Yourself
Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.
Allen Pike • An Unreasonable Amount of Time
this quote by Richard Feynman sums up why I keep a Sublime library. Cards are like tricks. Every now and then you see them with fresh eyes and something clicks and it reminds me why this practice is vital:
"You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind ... Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result,
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