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explorations in how individuals and institutions can adapt, evolve, and renew their sense of vitality when they become stagnant.
"Sometimes when we come to a threshold, we are able to be different because secret work has been done in us of which we have had no inkling." - John
Addiction is reciprocal narrowing: your attention contracts around whatever promises relief, fewer things bring you pleasure, fewer possibilities seem
If you are an artist, a creative, or doing anything that involves soul, you have to have faith in your audience. You cannot fall into the trap of cyni
“The spiritual journey is not a career or a success story. It is a series of small humiliations of the false self that become more and more profound.”
"Sometimes when we come to a threshold, we are able to be different because secret work has been done in us of which we have had no inkling." - John
If you are an artist, a creative, or doing anything that involves soul, you have to have faith in your audience. You cannot fall into the trap of cyni
notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity
The best marketing campaigns feel like inside jokes.
“The spiritual journey is not a career or a success story. It is a series of small humiliations of the false self that become more and more profound.”
If you are an artist, a creative, or doing anything that involves soul, you have to have faith in your audience. You cannot fall into the trap of cyni
building a world harry frankfurt would be proud of
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
If you are an artist, a creative, or doing anything that involves soul, you have to have faith in your audience. You cannot fall into the trap of cyni
Towards a new story of business
Nobody talks enough about what the passive income movement did to the content quality of the entire internet. If you've tried to google "best [anythin
I've met dozens of smart, capable people who had actual energy, and who spent their entire twenties bouncing between passive income schemes instead of
But zoom out and what you had was just an enormous machine converting human ambition into noise. Affiliate spam // dropshipped junk // ebooks about pa
If you are an artist, a creative, or doing anything that involves soul, you have to have faith in your audience. You cannot fall into the trap of cyni
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
Addiction is reciprocal narrowing: your attention contracts around whatever promises relief, fewer things bring you pleasure, fewer possibilities seem
sentences (or small paragraphs) that make my brain happy
“The grass is always greener on the side that’s fertilized with bullshit,”
“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, f
The best marketing campaigns feel like inside jokes.
"Sometimes when we come to a threshold, we are able to be different because secret work has been done in us of which we have had no inkling." - John
depth marketing for human-centered startups
75% of storytelling work is just distilling and defining the audience’s problem
My hottest take is that brand marketing is going to be THE major differentiator and one of the most prized assets for a company going forward. And,
It seems perpetually forgotten that almost everything worth doing, in business, love, leisure, politics, whatever, needs the cooperation of other peop
The best marketing campaigns feel like inside jokes.
“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
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
My hottest take is that brand marketing is going to be THE major differentiator and one of the most prized assets for a company going forward. And,
or how to build the reputation you want for your company
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
My hottest take is that brand marketing is going to be THE major differentiator and one of the most prized assets for a company going forward. And,
on memetics and cognitive security
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
Anyone who postures their speech with too much confidence about what an AI future looks like is to be immediately distrusted, as they are projecting t
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
Anyone who postures their speech with too much confidence about what an AI future looks like is to be immediately distrusted, as they are projecting t
the writer cannot do the reader’s thinking for him
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
i cannot express to you how bizarrely large the rewards of consistently writing opinionated + technical essays are. it is good for your own brain, it
The ideal conditions for our best work aren't the same as the conditions for our comfort. Super annoying. The best stuff comes from less comfortable p
on devotion to doing your real work
"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
The ideal conditions for our best work aren't the same as the conditions for our comfort. Super annoying. The best stuff comes from less comfortable p
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
i cannot express to you how bizarrely large the rewards of consistently writing opinionated + technical essays are. it is good for your own brain, it
@Daedalus_Sy If you want to change lives, then what people think about you is extremely important. "I just don't care what people think about me" i
75% of storytelling work is just distilling and defining the audience’s problem
on building a healthy relationship with money after a lifetime of dysfunction
“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