Pritesh

“Your garden is not complete until there is nothing else you can take out of it.”

Commitment issues aren’t about the options. They’re about the operator.

When you know what you want, most choices eliminate themselves.

You become what you scroll. Choose accordingly.

Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it’s exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather, all pervasive and virtually inescapable. Still, we can try.

Medieval surnames came directly from occupations because work was identity. Around the 11th century, everyone knew who John the Baker was versus John the Miller. Your work was literally your signature.

The word "vocation" comes from Latin vocatio —literally meaning "a call, summons." Originally, a divine calling.

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Clear taste acts as a decision-making accelerant. Every choice becomes obvious when filtered through a coherent point of view.

If your "taste" doesn't cost you something, it's not taste. It's preference.

The thing about memes is they don't spread because someone forces them to. They spread because they make connections that weren’t there before.

Processes also serve as repositories of institutional memory. They carry lessons from countless past cases, often unknown to the person following the process. Problems once encountered, solutions once devised, all of that is encoded into a set of steps.