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explorations in how individuals and institutions can adapt, evolve, and renew their sense of vitality when they become stagnant.
development happens spontaneously in the right social context
Attention is the unit of love. Whatever has your attention quite literally has your love, whether you mean to give it or not. If you track where you
therapy culture rejects much more than shame. it erases much of the masculine experience by combining real truths about trauma with feminine moral nor
notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity
development happens spontaneously in the right social context
FliiiiiirtingFlirting isnât limited to romance. Flirting is an attitude that only playful and happy people can have and enjoy. Itâs the virtue of bein
Attention is the unit of love. Whatever has your attention quite literally has your love, whether you mean to give it or not. If you track where you
therapy culture rejects much more than shame. it erases much of the masculine experience by combining real truths about trauma with feminine moral nor
sentences (or small paragraphs) that make my brain happy
youâre only really listening if youâre open to being changed by what you hear
development happens spontaneously in the right social context
I do feel like enshittification is the natural downstream consequence of spreadsheet brain
Attention is the unit of love. Whatever has your attention quite literally has your love, whether you mean to give it or not. If you track where you
The attention economy is misnamed. Our attention is not being harvested but rather suppressed, flattened out, demeaned into submission. We do not atte
Thinking about how common it is for people to be nakedly acting in their own self-interest while simultaneously insinuating that it is intellectually
I do feel like enshittification is the natural downstream consequence of spreadsheet brain
Four great relationship qs: 1. In what ways can I love you better? 2. What is something that youâve been telling that I miss or overlooked for you?
Every single person that you are reaching out to with a hidden agenda in mind can feel it, and the relationship is doomed to fail. Long-lasting relati
My humanity is bound in yours. A person is a person through other persons. -Desmond Tutu
development happens spontaneously in the right social context
depth marketing for human-centered startups
A lot of VCs are unhappy because: 1. The field attracts many prestige seekers 2. Prestige seekers canât generate alpha, they are wired to chase herds
Had a call with a billion dollar company today and they hit me with the weirdest question. âWhat can you deliver that Claude canât?â đ They asked be
But there is often no human meaning there, these posts are just meaning-shaped attention vampires that take mental effort to decode and give you no eq
It sucks that when you read peopleâs thoughts here you canât read them in their handwriting. It would reveal so much about them. Instead, half of th
on writing new stories of life into being
Every Native project answers three questions: 1. What are you building? 2. Why does it matter? 3. What does the world look like if you win? Maja dra
falling in love is largely about chemistry; staying in love is largely about the cocreation of narrative
People who insist that every product decision should be metrics-driven would also have to logically admit that theirs will be the first job to get aut
One of the best things about LLM's is that they replace superfluous services. And one of the biggest psychological dangers is that they can also repla
Mistake data for reality, and you will soon be enveloped by a bastardized version of reality. -via âSun and Steelâ Yukio Mishima.
via shawn smucker <3 Be sure to use AI when making your next, I donât know, meal plan, for example. Definitely do not call your friend who loves to co
One of the best things about LLM's is that they replace superfluous services. And one of the biggest psychological dangers is that they can also repla
on cultivating a life-giving relationship with building and nurturing a business, instead of letting it degrade your soul
A lot of VCs are unhappy because: 1. The field attracts many prestige seekers 2. Prestige seekers canât generate alpha, they are wired to chase herds
love is a long, rambling sentence with many semicolons and em-dashes and never a period
Iâm looking to become an anti-robot. I want to be the most visceral, alive thing on earth
Most people who think they have a stressful lifestyle are actually just trying to control too many things that they are supposed to let run free.
It can, in some cases, be a humungous act of love and surrender to allow ourselves to be misunderstood by those who we most wish could or would try to
I am a broken, needy, suffering human, completely inadequate to face life alone. Whenever I try to hide or run from this fact, my suffering compound
"I have a lot to say about social media in the book. Very little of it good. It promotes the worst aspects of human nature. The sarcasm, the rhetorica
on memetics and cognitive security
With regard to AI, the better question is not âWhat makes humans special?â but rather âWhat makes humans happy?â
Twitter is for brief, terrifying, exhilarating skirmishes. If you find yourself in a trench war, you have already lost. You got gassed with poison ego
Pros and cons of being an avid poster Pros: - You get to interface with your idols, past and present, sometimes even collab with them - If your frien
"I have a lot to say about social media in the book. Very little of it good. It promotes the worst aspects of human nature. The sarcasm, the rhetorica
maybe we can be friends with our bodies instead of dominating and trying to control them or viewing them as a source of shame?
I used to struggle with constipation and shifted my diet and water intake many times to fix it. Iâd get results for a moment but no ultimate change. I
Build a techno-social system which demands that humans act like machines and it turns out that machines can eventually be made to displace humans with