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One where achievement isn’t the default, and where smallness isn’t a failure to grow, but a new way to define what greatness really looks like.

Remnick does not dispute her account. “I think I would be happy if Judith Thurman wanted to write next about the National Football League,” he explained to me in an email. “The point is, I love reading her on whatever moves her, and she is a woman of parts, of wide-ranging interests and sensibility, a deep reader of literature, someone with a keen... See more

These were processes of becoming accountable to our desires, if only the desire to live.

“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”

The most divine relationships constitute a messy, awkward collaboration between two savage souls who dare to ask for more from this world.

The world, I've discovered, is a masterful flirt. It leaves little gifts everywhere—the way morning light catches in spider webs, how rain releases that earthy sweetness into the air (petrichor, they call it, though no word could fully capture that particular alchemy of water and dust that smells like pure possibility), the particular green of new... See more

But what we discovered by honing in clearly on what he genuinely wanted was that what he was (unconsciously) seeking was simply showing up with greater devotion to what already existed in his life.

AI now promises results without the reckoning, but frictionless creation leads to weightless rewards.

The future we are so worried about controlling begins to unfold smoothly, in a way it cannotwhen we are operating with such tension—always reaching, seeking, pursuing, resisting—instead of being, receiving, and allowing.