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I feel like substack in itself is a flex - everyone’s doing it. it allows them to have agency over what they create and almost be an intellectual version of an influencer
"There are two ways to make the world more mesmerizing: to seek out new and increasingly intense experiences, or to loosen the filters that make ordinary experience “ordinary”. You can go skydiving, or you can meditate for long enough that walking feels like skydiving. Either way, I think what we’re seeking is an escape back into what we used to... See more
Novelist Charles Kingsley on happiness:
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
Happiness
. Though giving patriarchy the imagery it asks for hardly seems subversive
Selling Sex, Losing Touch: How Gen Z Performs Sexuality Instead of Feeling It
“What people want to buy most is their own future.”
Dan Sullivan • Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork
Needing to believe in something is a recession indicator.
Copium of The Masses
You’re doomscrolling because you’re looking for something to transform you but you can’t stay with one thing for long enough to be transformed by it. You have short attention span on an existential scale. You’re gliding past thousands of small worlds in minutes, laughing at one post, feeling dread at the next, tempted to buy something right after.... See more
Sherry Ning • You’re bored because you don’t love anything
how i feel
When Shohei Ohtani was a high school freshman, he created a detailed "dream sheet" with one central goal: to be the #1 draft pick for 8 NPB (Nippon Professional Baseball) teams.
It was a 64-cell roadmap based on a framework called the Harada Method.
Here's exactly what Shohei did... See more
Dream-Making Tools
was covid lockdown the last time we had hope? bc there HAD to be something better in the future. we were in boxes so there was always something to dream about. now that we’re outside, we see that there is no hope at all