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‘Toys are not really as innocent as they look. Toys and games are the prelude to serious ideas.’ — Charles and Ray Eames

I’ve got a theory. When people don’t create music art ideas anything… they start creating problems instead. Unused energy gets weird.

Don’t shrink the vision to fit the doubt

Inner Work is the practice of getting triggered and doing something different than usual

belief capitalism values narrative adhesion, the ability to keep enough people inside a story long enough that the story stays load-bearing.

“I think you really can feel it with companies where the people creating the products are inherently interested in culture,” he says. “They’re not tou

The less time I spend living in Someday the more it feels like I live in eternity

belief capitalism values narrative adhesion, the ability to keep enough people inside a story long enough that the story stays load-bearing.

“I think you really can feel it with companies where the people creating the products are inherently interested in culture,” he says. “They’re not tou

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

Don’t shrink the vision to fit the doubt

I think the key to posting online / being seen online is not feeling responsible for anyone who’s not caught up on your lore. You won’t be able to sto

I’ve got a theory. When people don’t create music art ideas anything… they start creating problems instead. Unused energy gets weird.

This world is intricately stitched together, boys. Every thread we pull, we know not how it affects the design of things. We’re but children on this e

Don’t shrink the vision to fit the doubt

the best relationships consist of a series of unbreachable private understandings

convinced that adults have totally forgotten how to have fun in conversation. every conversation is either "checklist catch up on life events" or "gr

What is love? Ask 19 geniuses. Get 19 answers. • Plato: It's remembering a soul. • Freud: It's desire in disguise. • Buddha: It's letting go. • Nietz

information is free because saturating your cognition & preventing you from taking action is the product

“The computer was not made in the image of the person. The computer was made in the image of the formal manipulations of abstract symbols. And the las

This world is intricately stitched together, boys. Every thread we pull, we know not how it affects the design of things. We’re but children on this e

The optimization economy can't deliver control, because the desperation is the market condition, and the pursuit of control through optimization is it

It’s revealing that Silicon Valley’s word of the moment is ‘agency’ as it dresses up that desire for control. Optimization is the process, control is

Every solution to “systemic failure” that promises control gets packaged as a product that re-enrolls you into something deeper than what you were esc

I think the key to posting online / being seen online is not feeling responsible for anyone who’s not caught up on your lore. You won’t be able to sto

“I am dead because I lack desire, I lack desire because I think I possess, I think I possess because I do not try to give, In trying to give, you see

I think the key to posting online / being seen online is not feeling responsible for anyone who’s not caught up on your lore. You won’t be able to sto

The optimization economy can't deliver control, because the desperation is the market condition, and the pursuit of control through optimization is it

I think the key to posting online / being seen online is not feeling responsible for anyone who’s not caught up on your lore. You won’t be able to sto

information is free because saturating your cognition & preventing you from taking action is the product

I think the key to posting online / being seen online is not feeling responsible for anyone who’s not caught up on your lore. You won’t be able to sto

The less time I spend living in Someday the more it feels like I live in eternity

Confusion and nihilism are products, not symptoms, of this regressive world. The people selling “agency” benefit from a world where nobody trusts inst

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,

“ Reality itself is the best ally of God. If you want to find God, if you want to go deep into the mystery of God, just accept reality in all of its

Most inner work fails because it’s done from the same self-rejection it’s trying to heal.

The things you know you need to do, to get in right relationship, to be aligned with life, you dont have to wait until you love yourself, you can do t

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

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,

it is easy to understand God if you do not have to explain him.

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

information is free because saturating your cognition & preventing you from taking action is the product

Many of us, when new to D.A., felt overwhelmed and were looking for quick solutions. Before, when we felt that way, we debted. Now in recovery, we had

Pressure relief groups have a remarkable way of seeing the best in us. With their and our sponsor’s support and wisdom, we find that we are neither ho

i have a theory about God i talk about all the time He knows He can’t reach everyone through the same methods, so He meets you in a way you can under

How can I find worth and dignity in something deeper and more enduring than intelligence?

“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,

i’ll be honest with you guys i love being an adult and having to deal with tradeoffs and maintenance and problems it’s not idyllic but it feels like

Hardship. Hard-'ship,' from the Old English word 'sciappan,' which means 'to shape' or 'to make.' Hard things shape us. Hard things make us There’s e

The optimization economy can't deliver control, because the desperation is the market condition, and the pursuit of control through optimization is it

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,

For both the writer and the spiritual pilgrim, an “answer” is not always the greatest gift. Rather, coming to deeper and deeper understanding of the q

It’s revealing that Silicon Valley’s word of the moment is ‘agency’ as it dresses up that desire for control. Optimization is the process, control is

belief capitalism values narrative adhesion, the ability to keep enough people inside a story long enough that the story stays load-bearing.

Life is made in the small moments that our minds forget but our hearts remember.

Worry Is Sin The Manifesto Worry is sin. Worry is blasphemy. It is doubt against reality, against creation. Each anxious thought spits in GOD's face.

Sublime is an ethos-driven company. Here is what we believe: Intention > Attention The destruction of our attention compromises our ability to make su

When you chase perfection, when you make perfection the ultimate goal, do you know what you’re doing? You’re chasing something that doesn’t exist. You

did you even stop to consider the possibility that life is less about getting it right and more about being carried along by moments of unexpected gra

“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

If you have something worth spreading, it’s considerate to spread it widely, to reach people through their favorite medium.

If you miss a step on the spiral path, it’s no big deal. You’ll come back around to it eventually. 🌀

God makes you walk in circles until you’re exhausted enough to just be yourself

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We are relative. We are mature in one r

In my experience, at least some degree of nondual realization makes handling addictions WAY easier. It's no longer me handling a force, fixing mysel

"I understand there's a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons and old movies. My whole life is a series of str

“All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.” — Robin Sharma

The only thing you can do is be a living proof.

“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in pri

So attend to what isn't getting said in a conversation. Listen for the absence and speak to it. It will not fail you.

“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

On becoming a leader within a movement, and why it can be so helpful in you reaching success with your work. This is a newsletter from Brian Clark se

“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

This is how to tell a success story: Rather than telling a story of your full and complete accomplishment, tell the story of a small part of the succe

"The metacrisis" is attractive because it suggests you can save the world by thinking about it extremely abstractly.

Trust goes hand in hand with truth. Lying is always a breach of trust.

So attend to what isn't getting said in a conversation. Listen for the absence and speak to it. It will not fail you.

The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs y

A single, truly empowered individual can counterbalance the inertia of thousands who remain stuck in fear, anger, or shame.That individual is Danny De

it is a loving act to serve the market. if you are getting signals that people want — or maybe even *need* — something that you can offer, then creat

money is just congealed energy; something one has traded time, effort, attention, insight for. allow people to give you their congealed energy in exch

what i had to do was a combination of exposure therapy (spending a bit more than felt comfortable) + emotional work: i’d notice my tendency to choose

“Charging too little is like eating soup with afork: you’re always busy but always hungry!”

what is the relationship between ideological commitment and status seeking? is an ideology a particular status game you've opted into? do people selec

can commerce be holy?

How can I find worth and dignity in something deeper and more enduring than intelligence?

I think you can reduce 80 percent of culture wars to questions of economics—like a libertarian or a Marxist would—and then you can reduce maybe 80 per

“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.”―Oscar Ameri

your worst sin is that you’ve formed opinions not from careful reflection on lived experience, but from the assertions of others

“There is no alternative” is a cheap rhetorical sleight. It’s a demand dressed up as an observation. “There is no alternative” means: “Stop trying to

a company is an egregore (the shared mind between the humans who make it). A country is an egregore. A small town is an egregore. A friend group is an

Gravitas: “I care, and it’s important.” Sermons, manifestos.Self-deprecation: “I care, but it’s not important.” Hobbies, fandoms, being nerdsniped, “m

One issue with corporate comms is there’s too much “how to build a boat” and not enough “why you should should yearn for the vast and endless sea”

You can literally be the source of the thing you want to see more of, any time you want

13 Creative Commandments: 1. Talent is an important differentiator, but talent needs to put in the hours to excel. 2. Question everything. Question wh

When you stop reading, you stop writing. When you stop writing, you stop thinking. When you stop thinking, you stop feeling. When you stop feeling,

“Everyone dreams big until you see the price tag.”Shane Parrish

the story you tell about a product, and the culture you build around that story, matters far more than the product itself

“ There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. ” ―ursula le guin

There is a Tibetan form of spiritual hyperstition that is more powerful than any of the modern day forms. It works by living and believing as if you

There is a Tibetan form of spiritual hyperstition that is more powerful than any of the modern day forms. It works by living and believing as if you

the ideas already exist the person who surfaces them at the right moment in the right context with a freshly curated set of words and shapes earns the

Imagine how many beautiful things were left uncreated because the person who had the spark of an idea just decided not to act on it

13 Creative Commandments: 1. Talent is an important differentiator, but talent needs to put in the hours to excel. 2. Question everything. Question wh

I believe that at the heart of everyone’s body of work there is a Defining Question: an unanswerable, deep-seated question that we hold subconsciously

@Plus3Happiness Naming something absolutely gives you control over it. But you need to name it in God’s tongue (force equals mass times acceleration)

choosing a side only feels good because it allows the mind to re-right itself into certainty while suppressing the fear of not knowing.

your heart knows when a story is True in some very deep way. there's some phenomena i call "slop sickness" where you get this horrible churning feelin

pretty clear that collecting cultural ephemera is a new consumer behavior that’s going to become a core part of life on the internet

Books you read are sending you input. Your friends modeling behaviors for you. Newspapers. Tools. People you follow on Twitter. The architecture of a

The dream isn’t just to show all of ourselves unfiltered to the world. It’s to find a character that we feel comfortable being, that we deeply resonat

Poetry is the art of proving that a few words are worth more than a thousand pictures.

Unreasonably effective writing advice: "What are you trying to say here? Okay, just write that."

one of the hardest habits i've had to un-learn as a writer is the desire to head off any counterargument i can see coming -- it's hard for me to write

People who trust themselves trust themselves because they’re honest with themselves. More specifically, they’re honest about what they need to restric

"The truth does not require your participation in order to exist. Bullshit does." ~Terence McKenna

maybe "lie constantly to everyone for convenience" is a bad cultural value that causes more problems than we realize

Forgiveness is not the absence of vengefulness. It's feeling the fullness of a righteous, justified grief at a genuine injury, & choosing mercy instea

95% of “overthinking” is unprocessed emotion wearing a rational disguise. You don’t need more logic. You need to feel the discomfort you’re avoiding.

Forgiveness is not the absence of vengefulness. It's feeling the fullness of a righteous, justified grief at a genuine injury, & choosing mercy instea

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The text actually moves back and forth between all of these. Few novels pay less attention to the rules of fiction than Zen and the Art of Motorcycle

surprise may be a better proxy for creativity than quality. A polished output is not necessarily creative, but a surprising one might be. Yet even sur

Flirting is a way of life. Do you smile at the pretty girls, compliment the older ladies, or wink at the moon? How about the birds, when they sing, do

i cannot overstate how big the difference is between a - learning a map, then venturing into the territory, and b - venturing through the territory,

When I watch a Miyazaki film I can’t help but think about his attunement to the world, the presence it requires to transmute the real world into a fan

Art keeps humans Alive

Writing kinda feels like hunting to me in the sense u are catching something that is eluding you but you know it exists and you can see it

Your best ideas come from dwelling deeply in your own life.

Whatever emotion you try to avoid, you end up inviting into your life - in the exact way you try to avoid it.

The way to find what that emotional blind spot is is to ask yourself: “If I couldn’t feel judgement at this moment, what emotion would I have to feel?

Imagine waking up and feeling curious about what the day might bring. Imagine feeling that subtle excitement about getting to know yourself more. Imag

Stop assuming that people are mad at you. Stop attempting to read people's minds. Stop trying to manage the thoughts and emotions of others. Let peopl

We see something that works, and then we understand it “We see something that works, and then we understand it.” (Thomas Dullien) It is a deeper

“I would say that the demand for the perfect is the greatest enemy of the good. Perfection is a mathematical or divine concept, goodness is a beautifu

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.” -John Steinbeck

The notion that “consistent, messy action breeds success” leaves a lot of room for error and can be daunting for perfectionists or those who aim to “d

is your perfectionism coming from fear or from love? love-based perfectionism sounds like: - "I want to make this better" - "I can see how beautiful

I have a working theory that the anxiety I feel is actually a massive amount of positive energy. It just feels uncomfortable because I haven’t learne

The obsession with statistical norms has turned psychology into a system for pathologizing difference. Any deviation from statistical norms is labeled

is your perfectionism coming from fear or from love? love-based perfectionism sounds like: - "I want to make this better" - "I can see how beautiful

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Politics is a lagging indicator of consciousness. Do not despair.

When we mistake spreading ideas for taking real action, we overlook a crucial asymmetry: ideas and actions distribute their consequences wildly differ

The number-one-by-a-mile way that people avoid living their values is by going out into the world and telling everyone else how important those values

Finding the values and principles you live by isn't always easy. Giving yourself opportunities to live by them and make them a default reflex can be b

“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyful

“I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.” - Lee Kuan Yew, 2013

Humans aren’t meant to excavate their inner feelings until they find their “true self.” We become ourselves in relation, not through introspection.

This line from David Foster Wallace still haunts me:“The next suitable person you’re in light conversation with, you stop suddenly in the middle of th

Astronaut Scott Kelly on intelligence: “The smartest person in the room, I’ve learned, is usually the person who knows how to tap into the intelligenc

I think that a fairly reliable mark of high intelligence is the capacity to recognize the signal within the noise of someone's 'wrong' take. Pseudo-i

“ There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. ” ―ursula le guin

you think you want thousands of followers but what you really want is five mutuals with good reply game and thousands of followers

When the founder of Hasidic Judaism, the great Rabbi Israel Shem Tov, saw misfortune threatening the Jews, it was his custom to go into a certain part

“ There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. ” ―ursula le guin

Like resonance, the term echo chamber has both literal and figurative meanings that are related, but not the same. In the former sense, an echo chambe

I like the analogy of the "bicycle for the mind", because riding a bike requires effort from you, and the bike multiplies the effect of that effort. I

Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It’s thinking of yourself less.

kind of shocked at how much mental energy is freed up if we stop trying to be special and important

When you chase perfection, when you make perfection the ultimate goal, do you know what you’re doing? You’re chasing something that doesn’t exist. You

“Gnosis should be an experience of your own life, a plant grown on your own tree. Foreign gods are a sweet poison, but vegetable gods you have raised

Market forces incentivise us to get on the property ladder, and then to set fire to the rungs beneath us so that nobody else can climb up. Moloch need

“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyful

“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyful

So much value and love for the process of writing and what it does for the coherence between heart, brain, imagination, lived reality, unseen, and see

You can’t write a viral essay that says “it’s complicated and I’m not sure.” But this is the only path to truly novel insight.

Writing is a task that takes both objective and subjective intelligence. LLMs ace the objective parts the same way they ace every test; you can’t faul

Ken Wilber talks about how we can't think our way to the next level of development - we have to live our way there. This explains why I can understa

Dear Future Self, I'm no longer trying to become you. Not because I've given up, But because I finally understand: You emerge from how gently I hold t

The unspoken contract of a workshop is this: the audience grants you temporary control of their attention (and actions) in the belief that you will tr

if project management is the meta of doing work, then managing your psychology is the meta of project management. A moderately-good process maintained

The fear of making mistakes is a particularly strong dampener on one’s learning. You can’t learn if you can’t make mistakes. I like the idea that mast

Because we have a limited amount of time and energy, if we want to get good, we have to allocate those resources effectively. And to do that we have t

I think it can be tempting as a novice to assume that everything a master produces must be refined in the high-res, high-production-value sense. I thi

And this is why I put “ayy lmao” in my meme about the heart of philosophy. Laughter is the divine thing that transmutes stupid bullshit into something

The fear of making mistakes is a particularly strong dampener on one’s learning. You can’t learn if you can’t make mistakes. I like the idea that mast

To ask, every day, "What matters, in the end?" is to create the possibility of differentiated choice, the potential to overthrow the tyranny of our hi

The amount of people who seem to live as if cowardice were heavily rewarded really make me think that simply being brave has a greater effect on life

I notice this pattern constantly with my hypertrophied left hemisphere coaching clients: they're paralyzed needing to understand before they trust. Bu

Ray Bradbury talks about the importance of not thinking when he is writing. He says that when he arrives at the typewriter, his task is to be living.

It’s not that I know how to do this. It’s that my soul is guiding me through this.—life mantra1

The role of art is to embody virtue

A true mystery, like life itself, is not for us to understand with our logical mind. Puzzles can be solved, but never a true mystery. You are such a m

The person you become through creating is infinitely more valuable than whatever you actually create.

“Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something i

Tiny Worlds: A Manifesto for Sovereign Creators—Attract, Build & Curate an Audience of True Fans

I first wrote about Breach in 2020, and again in my book. It’s the idea that the internet has become our externalised collective unconscious, capturin

To paraphrase David Graeber: “The ultimate, hidden truth of the internet is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make different

“You must understand the whole of life, not just one part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, why you must sing,

we cut the world into pieces with words, distinctions, categories. analogy and metaphor sews things back together, reminds us of the inherent sameness

Gay, who had lived a good life by letting the sheriff beat him at checkers, suddenly grew cocky and never lost another game. He lost his privileges th

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

i’ll be honest with you guys i love being an adult and having to deal with tradeoffs and maintenance and problems it’s not idyllic but it feels like

"Each time we don't say what we want to say we're dying." —Yoko Ono

Hardship. Hard-'ship,' from the Old English word 'sciappan,' which means 'to shape' or 'to make.' Hard things shape us. Hard things make us There’s e

For the entirety of my young and skittish life, I had fixated upon my fear as if it were the most interesting thing about me, when actually it was the

"The metacrisis" is attractive because it suggests you can save the world by thinking about it extremely abstractly.

Once you decide to change your life, actually changing is easy. Unfortunately, deciding to change is incredibly difficult.

I couldn’t quit smoking until I convinced myself that smoking was for losers. Wasn’t enough to “want” to quit. I had to actively disdain it in an ove

“You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”

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

The gap between knowing what you want and going after it is where fear thrives. You don't need enough courage for the entire journey. You only need co

Offering ourselves such care might feel strange and unfamiliar at first, as it did for Daniel. Sometimes extending compassion to ourselves in this way

The gap between knowing what you want and going after it is where fear thrives. You don't need enough courage for the entire journey. You only need co

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

Embed future in today. Action bias in here and now. And weave time to unleash compounding. Small steady steps in right direction

"Move toward the next thing, not away from the last thing. Same direction. Completely different energy."

Joy is infinitely more fulfilling than profit.

Three signs you’re scared of feeling joy: 1 You think you have to earn it 2 You focus on what could go wrong rather than right 3 You constantly feel

Conway’s Law: ‘For any organization that builds systems, the systems they produce reflect the communication structures of that organization.’ If you

when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger wo

Although many have tried many times, it is not really possible to command scenius into being. Every start up company, or university would like their o

Science is the systematic investigation of open questions. ScienceTM is the institutional authority certifying definitive answers.

“Our data is the tax we pay to participate in the attention and information economy.” -Margo Aaron

“Our data is the tax we pay to participate in the attention and information economy.” -Margo Aaron

“I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting sick of their own bullshit” – Elizabeth Gilbert

“A principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.” — Bill Bernbach

“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to

“Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.” -Ken Wilber

Pretty much every marketing tactic is built around treating people as a means to some end (making money). In fact, Kant struggled much of his life wit

no matter how hard we try to be humane and ethical in our small businesses, we hit a wall real fast when we’re still trying to operate within the voca

A company is a cathedral built to shelter an idea that might be true.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of growing up to satisfy user needs in a way that meets business goals for transformative outcomes

n this sense, Labubus do seem to be a defining moment of 2020s culture. For those interested in moving culture away from fads such as these, resistanc

The stasis debate is actually just about two specific topics: (1) whether 21st century culture offers the feeling of artistic progress, where new styl

In any case, it’s enough to make anyone feel crazy. Over the last decade we’ve watched — and while I’m talking about the tech industry, I think we can

One hallmark of our current moment is that when an event happens, there is little collective agreement on even basic facts. This, despite there being

A leading indicator of personal growth is how curious you are able to be with all your emotions - especially the ones you weren't allowed to feel as a

a big theme from opening sessions at @bowmansschool is the importance of paying attention to your feelings a few people have said they don't have acc

How to be more emotionally intelligent (without trying so hard) 🧵 for @threadapalooza

The most competent people I know are pretty good at basically anything they put their minds to, because they just design a process and run it. I think

when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger wo

The freedom of information the internet brings helps us expose idiot intellectuals quickly and more accurately than ever before. But the internet also

“As a medium, the internet is defined by a built-in performance incentive. In real life, you can walk around living life and be visible to other peopl

I am tired of seeing speed as a selling point. I’ve wanted to talk about this for a long time. I think one of the main reasons many of us feel anxio

From Lily Chambers: I genuinely do not care if AI tools make me more productive. I am tired of seeing, "increased productivity" as a selling point. I

“Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit the evasions. Stop giving yourself

We have to fall in love with our practice. We have to find a way that what we are doing when we practice is exactly what we want to be doing, and the

Standing for something isn’t just about writing it down. It’s about believing it and living it.

No matter how great the list of product recommendations in your favorite nootropics or skincare subreddit, the practices and the moral premises of a s

anyone who prioritizes the wellbeing of the “future of humanity” in the abstract over the dignity and care of individuals in the present cannot claim

Consider one more possibility: that the people who seem to slow us down and hold us back are actually preventing things from happening too fast. Imagi

Our metrics of progress have continuously abstracted: from the tangible bushels of wheat in agricultural economies (with natural physical limits), to

Collecting losses, and becoming a connoisseur of catastrophe, won’t help you get a win next time around.

What am I supposed to do? Keep standards high and fail them all? That’s not an option for untenured faculty who would like to keep their jobs. I’m a t

The more upset I became, the more I felt that my sensitivity towards the paintings was the same sensitivity I held when I was the subject of the photo

To spot weird signals, you need to go down rabbit holes. Follow your intuition. And remember, pursuing rabbit holes is not always an act of procrastin

Gen AI  for music has captured ~$300M in funding so far this year across several high-profile deals, the majority of which either focus on  rights man

The witch has turned from being a figure of alienation and marginalization to one of aspiration. No longer does the witch manage the divide between th

When scientific progress destabilized religious authority and the lack of meaning found in a pure rational worldview revealed science’s limitations, m

Of course this is what museum culture does: it, depending on your point of view, loots historical artifacts from a context in which they are useful an

The repetition of the word “immersed” is interesting, as it suggests this is not something these women studied, that instead it was a liquid medium th