Mo

It's important to understand the difference between hearing and listening. Hearing is a cognitive process that happens internally--we absorb sound, interpret it, and understand it. But listening is a whole-body process that happens between two people that makes the other person truly feel heard...

what I liked—kind people who are intellectually voracious and think it is cute that I obsess so hard about ideas that I fail all status games.

Denigrating people is not a path to accomplishing meaningful goals. It reflects a lack of self-control and a shortage of emotional intelligence.

This vice-like pressure is a microcosm of the wider condition of contemporary life. Produce or perish. Perform or be replaced. Maybe even get replaced anyway. Hence: scam or be scammed.