Collections
on writing new stories of life into being
I understand why people are obsessed with rules: it’s fun to pretend that we can control the future. It’s pleasing to think all this messiness is temp
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
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
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
notes on being in constructive dialogue with reality, instead of staying mired in delusional rigidity
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
Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost. Kahlil Gibran
"The opposite of love is control"
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.
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
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 can’t generate alpha, they are wired to chase herds
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.
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
A lot of VCs are unhappy because: 1. The field attracts many prestige seekers 2. Prestige seekers can’t generate alpha, they are wired to chase herds
sentences (or small paragraphs) that make my brain happy
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." - John Muir
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
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.
"The opposite of love is control"
love is a long, rambling sentence with many semicolons and em-dashes and never a period
Four great relationship qs: 1. In what ways can I love you better? 2. What is something that you’ve 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
explorations in how individuals and institutions can adapt, evolve, and renew their sense of vitality when they become stagnant.
I’m looking to become an anti-robot. I want to be the most visceral, alive thing on earth
“It is always hard to believe that the courageous step is so close to us, that it is closer than we ever could imagine, that in fact we already know w
"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
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.
love is a long, rambling sentence with many semicolons and em-dashes and never a period
I’m 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 “What makes humans special?” but rather “What makes humans happy?”
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
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
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. I’d 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
notes on what it means to feel fully alive in the present moment, and to live from that place in perpetuity
radicalized by the realization that in many Intellectual™ circles it’s higher status to know a lot about a domain than it is to actually do something
I’m looking to become an anti-robot. I want to be the most visceral, alive thing on earth
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
"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert m
radicalized by the realization that in many Intellectual™ circles it’s higher status to know a lot about a domain than it is to actually do something
Despite what the most flagrant tech bros tend to think, you can’t become capable of thinking if a machine does your thinking. You may think you’re “hi
