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Nobody who’s actually good at making money needs to sell you a course on it.

No theory can develop without eventually encountering a wall, and practice is necessary for piercing this wall.

Michel Foucault • Intellectuals and power: A conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze

I’ve finally realized why I’ve never been a fan of focusing just on productivity without focusing on other things as well.

Productivity is a natural outcome that happens when you have a deep purpose. When you have a deep purpose, you naturally come up with clear priorities to work on.

When you have a deep purpose and clear priorities, you become

But all of the arguments being made today against using generative AI to answer questions sound exactly like the arguments against citing web pages as sources in the 1990s. The argument then was basically “ Anyone can publish anything on the web, and even if a web page is accurate today, it can be changed at any time ” — which was true then and... See more

John Gruber • ★ Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Generative AI Bullshit Bathwater

When Joseph Campbell said “follow your bliss,” I am quite sure he was describing resonance—not as an isolated moment, but as a string of moments across a lifetime, like lights along a path, that we can follow.

Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams

People claim to want to do something that matters, yet they measure themselves against things that don’t, and track their progress not in years but in microseconds.”

-via Ryan Holiday, Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts

When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the