Erikc Perez-Perez

@perez

Chicago photographer.

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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

– Voltaire

Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting... See more

Andrej Karpathy x.com

It’s time to affirm life. There are two ways to organize your values. One is around resentment – “who hurt me, who’s to blame, who needs to be taken down.” The other is around life – “what’s actually good, what’s worth building, protecting, and celebrating even... See more

Eli Dourado x.com

“If summer is for summoning what you desire, then winter is for becoming what you endure.“

Our appetite for life is so big that living just one life doesn’t always feel like enough. We want to know what other people’s lives are like, and we want other people to live some of our lives, too.

This life gives you nothing

Those who rely on art to eat will, sooner or later, negotiate the art.

lohause instagram.com

Every adult senses that their attention is slipping, that their thinking is flattening, that their world is flooded with noise, no neutrality, and that no institution really exists to protect them. Your brain is for sale, my guy - as your attention goes, so does your cognition, so does your sense of depth and certainty.

Confidence, optimism, and... See more

Everyone is Gambling and No One is Happy

Burnout is the slow suffocation of pretending.

You are not your job, you’re not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis.

—Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)