do you ever find it weird that as a culture we decided that “progress” just means advancement in technology and numbers on a spreadsheet, and that things like moral advancement, human joy, positive relationships, fulfillment, psychological development, and purpose don’t count?

when startup founders measure success by "exits" it tells you they aren't architects of the future they're house flippers it's more impressive to maintain the integrity of a legacy

"The amount of serendipity that will occur in your life is directly proportional to the degree to which you do something you're passionate about combined with the total number of people to whom this is effectively communicated." https://t.co/KfFpouh7Dm

You can't have an edge if you are well rounded.

when all information is perfectly catalogued and perfectly analysed by perfect tools that present them perfectly to us at the perfect time in the perfect way… …we will finally see how it was actually courage we needed all along, more than information

Generic ambition will give you anxiety. Specific ambition will give you direction.

“Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.” ~ Roger Schank

Startups often assume their better funded competitors are doing well, which leads to dogmatically chasing/copying #1 if you’re #2+ #2 tries to catch up to #1 by running the same way but faster. It’s often the case #1 is headed in the wrong direction, and now #2+ is too

exert your taste on the world to live in a reality you’ve consciously created https://t.co/wKR6LMKBRo

ChatGPT was released while I was in the middle of my final solitary meditation retreat while training at the Monastic Academy. I remember walking on the path back to my room when my partner at the time excitedly shared about its emergence and the way it was taking the world by… Show more