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feeling feelings is a bit like actually tasting food instead of just wolfing it down or something

the writer cannot do the reader’s thinking for him

one of the hardest lessons to learn is that people tell you that which they wish to be true way more than they tell you that which is true. people wh

A lot of visible problems that you can't seem to solve are secretly solutions you don't want to admit to adopting to problems you don't want to admit

the writer cannot do the reader’s thinking for him

1. perceiving or “computing” depth is not without cost. when people say “it’s not that deep”, imo they almost always mean “it’s not that deep *to me*”

Whenever I go on retreats, journeys, or am otherwise humbled by existence, there is a word I'm reminded of, and that is *intelligence*. Reality is unf

A lot of visible problems that you can't seem to solve are secretly solutions you don't want to admit to adopting to problems you don't want to admit

1. perceiving or “computing” depth is not without cost. when people say “it’s not that deep”, imo they almost always mean “it’s not that deep *to me*”

one of the hardest lessons to learn is that people tell you that which they wish to be true way more than they tell you that which is true. people wh

Had a call with a billion dollar company today and they hit me with the weirdest question. “What can you deliver that Claude can’t?” 👀 They asked be

1. perceiving or “computing” depth is not without cost. when people say “it’s not that deep”, imo they almost always mean “it’s not that deep *to me*”

one of the hardest lessons to learn is that people tell you that which they wish to be true way more than they tell you that which is true. people wh

Stop writing like a person who has things figured out. Write like a person who is figuring it out in front of you. That's the only voice that's ever h

However bad a writer you think you are, you are not worse than AI.

The English novelist John Fowles, asked for writing advice, once said something very similar:At heart, write always for yourself, not for family and f

the writer cannot do the reader’s thinking for him

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough”

“The Prosperity Prayer” Dear God — I surrender my financial affairs and concerns about money to your Divine care and love. I ask that you remove my wo

Money is easier to manifest than ever because it is essentially just a number on a screen that shifts at different times through different apps. Flat

Mistake data for reality, and you will soon be enveloped by a bastardized version of reality. -via “Sun and Steel” Yukio Mishima.

via shawn smucker <3 Be sure to use AI when making your next, I don’t 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

my current AI setup for personal productivity... - inbox manager: "I have 15 minutes, please triage all my inboxes and tell me which messages to focu

“Gratitude turns what we have into enough”

There’s a Rick and Morty episode where a Freddie Kruger type is chasing them in a dream level saying “you can run but you cannot hide” At some point

Every time you feel jealousy or envy towards some else, you should celebrate. To feel jealous of another is to get clarity on what you want in life.

“The Prosperity Prayer” Dear God — I surrender my financial affairs and concerns about money to your Divine care and love. I ask that you remove my wo

God, grant me the serenity to Accept the things I cannot change Courage to change the things I can And wisdom to know the difference

Forgiveness Prayer In this moment of stillness, I release the weight of past hurts and grievances, Letting them dissolve like morning mist in the war

“The Prosperity Prayer” Dear God — I surrender my financial affairs and concerns about money to your Divine care and love. I ask that you remove my wo

Guilt can coexist with self-respect. Shame cannot. You can hold the damage and the dignity at the same time.

if you treat someone like they are a good person with a good heart they will often work to make you correct

There are many ways to understand addiction, but the “four C’s” are perhaps the most useful: – do you *crave* it when you’re not doing it? – do you

“The Prosperity Prayer” Dear God — I surrender my financial affairs and concerns about money to your Divine care and love. I ask that you remove my wo

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

maybe a useful typology/maturity model for people: 1. can generate the feeling of safety on their own 2. can feel safe within good relationships 3. c

As madness increases, the stark contrast of that which is holy, true, and beneficial is easier to identify. Thus, what seems like our demise is actual

“The trouble with market research is people don’t think what they feel, they don’t say what they think, and they don’t do what they say.” (David Ogilv

Carl Rogers On Becoming a Person (1961) ...I have almost invariably found that the very feeling which has seemed to me most private, most personal,

the things you are drawn to naturally matter a lot. they are clues. your job is to figure out why.

I love when scientists dedicate their life to like. One beetle

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

i use "hell realm" loosely to refer to a state in which - you are suffering enormously - the suffering is sticky or persistent, refuses to dissipa

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

They will try to convince you that integrity is a garnish, or dessert, rather than the whole point of the meal. Don’t believe them.

My humanity is bound in yours. A person is a person through other persons. -Desmond Tutu

development happens spontaneously in the right social context

They will try to convince you that integrity is a garnish, or dessert, rather than the whole point of the meal. Don’t believe them.

development happens spontaneously in the right social context

Growing up, most of us know we may not snag our dream job or become famous. But a relationship, a family, a place to build a life together—many of us

Giving up dating brings good days and bad. You can’t just stop hoping for a partner on command, after all. In certain moments—on Valentine’s Day, or w

Nobody throws you a shower for becoming self-sufficient. Nobody sends a formal invitation that says: Please join us in celebrating Natalie, who has su

The attention economy is misnamed. Our attention is not being harvested but rather suppressed, flattened out, demeaned into submission. We do not atte

you’re only really listening if you’re open to being changed by what you hear

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 people’s thoughts here you can’t read them in their handwriting. It would reveal so much about them. Instead, half of th

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