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Politics is for unthinking dullards. People who would rather choose a prepackaged identity rather than think for themselves. Robin Harford

Build a deeper circle not a tribe. Robin Harford

Outrage is a monoculture. Robin Harford

Don't build your comfort on a system you don't control. Robin Harford

Politics is a substitute religion.

In forming opinions and casting votes, people are motivated much less by political ideology than by group identity.45 Opinions emerge from affiliation

I do think that if I had to choose one word to which hope can be tied it is hospitality. Ivan Illich

“Anarchism has only one dogma,” Tomáš says to Lera. “The absence of dogma.”

Storage is not wisdom. David Hieatt

"If more information was the answer, then we'd all be billionaires with perfect abs." - Derek Sivers

“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right in

If you want to progress faster, write concise explanations. Explain ideas in simple terms, strongly and clearly, so that they can be rebutted, remixed

I love all the ways we are sensual. I like to smell good, taste everything yummy, feel how alive skin is, listen to sounds of breath and pleasure, see

Let go of everything but your sense of you in your body. Find neutrality.

Your body is your temple. It is the sacred space in which all truths are revealed, and all lasting transformation happens. It is where you will find t

We aren't thinking machines that feel, we're feeling machines that think. Antonio Damasio, neuroscientist

The microphone doesn't discriminate. Martyn Stewart

Field Recordings – A podcast where audio-makers stand silently in fields.

Under the right conditions, even ordinary experiences can be infused with a sense of the supernatural. The milky rays of sunlight that beam through a

Nature is the new nightclub. Roisner

If a revolt is to come, it will have to come from the five senses. Michael Serres

Each day you can return to this practice of sensing and feeling, of slowly bringing your awareness down from your head to your throat, chest, belly, h

Who does your customer want to become as they relate to your products and services?

Marketing is the generous act of helping others become who they seek to become. It involves creating honest stories—stories that resonate and spread.

Who do you want your customers to become? Michael Schrag

Think like farmers/foragers who understand that real change grows from the ground up, not from algorithmns. Roisner

Making disparate connections between disciplines refers to the ability to link ideas, concepts, or knowledge from different, often unrelated, fields o

A flower is a temporary manifestation created by interconnected, non-flower elements—like sunshine, rain, and soil—meaning the entire universe is pres

I want to start with a quote from writer, activist, and teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh. In Being Peace, he writes: “If you are a poet, you will see clearly

Sympoiesis is this process of recognizing that I am because you are. And you, whoever you are: a mushroom, bacteria, a pine tree, a river stream, a ce

Buddhism teaches that because nothing exists independently, nothing can be blamed independently either.Suffering is not a personal failure. It is a co

We don’t choose the whiskey, we choose the image. - David Ogilvy

Good copy starts with good research.

The only job of any line is to get the next line read. Joe Sugarman

Nostr - Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays

Same with the assumption that everyone will have read receipts turned on; to opt out signals a lack of trust, even if your desire for privacy has not

Today, the flex has inverted entirely: the greatest privilege is to be chronically offline.

Steve Jobs: How to design insanely great products Design Philosophy: Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication • If users need a manual, the design ha

It is rooted in part in a Situationist notion of subverting the existing conditions through aimless drifting (the famous dérive) and using the city wi

Copyright is, and always has been, a compromise between incentivising creators and increasing social welfare by promoting cultural participation, shar

All painters and poets are born phenomenologists. JH van den Berg

SpecificRounded numbers are interpreted as "guesses" or "marketing." The brain trusts odd, specific numbers because they imply earned data and authent

CounterintuitiveThis is the "Judo Flip." To stop the scroll, you must challenge the reader’s existing worldview. The brain ignores what it already agr

EmotionTo move a reader, you must speak to the head via the heart. This requires you to "release the handbrake" on your own feelings to transfer energ

The Art of Narrowing DownGreat hooks are not born; they are refined through a process of extreme narrowing. Broad hooks appeal to no one; ultra-specif

Because I work for myself, I spend zero minutes a year blaming other people for my circumstances. It forces me to take complete ownership of my life a

If you own a house or property and you complain about my efforts and approach to earn a living as an author, you are nothing more than indentured to t

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because to us it is even more necessary not to have

From a low hill in this broad savannah a magnificent prospect opened up to us. To the very brink of the horizon we saw gigantic herds of animals: gaze

The Eremocene, or "Age of Loneliness," is a term coined by biologist E.O. Wilson to describe the current and future era of planetary history character

First-order thinking is a fast, instinctive decision-making approach focused on immediate, short-term results and reactions, often ignoring long-term

First Principles First principles thinking is a problem-solving approach that breaks complex situations down into their most basic, fundamental truths