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Language is basically magic. Using a series of incantations, vibrations in the air, you can make someone see something, feel something, believe someth

please do not give up your humanity for comfort, you are meant to breathe in and out a concoction of heartbreak and beauty and revolt and courage and

A critical part of human development—in fact, the most human part of human development—is to acquire a purpose. That means refining your sense of righ

Don’t shrink the vision to fit the doubt

I have always tried to take lots of notes, typically as snapshots of my mental state. What I’m thinking about, what my priorities are, where my attent

A note from Erikc when I asked him how we would approach our first ever social ad campaign: I gave this some thought on my morning run, and here's wha

Sort of in line with the “build it, and they will come” philosophy, if you make a space for something, you are more likely to engage with it. Put frui

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

A person spends years trying to become beautiful online. They finally achieve the exact face, body, lifestyle, and aesthetic they once fantasized abou

Co-Star’s co-founder Banu Guler says in an interview, “The crux of feeling like a human is being able to talk about your reality.”

There’s an old Irish saying that the only way to keep a secret between three people is to kill two of them

Reading is alluring. It has a nameless quality beyond satisfying desires for information and pleasure. Despite more colorful and interactive media, re

all serious intellectual work happens on the page, and we shouldn’t pretend otherwise. If you want to contribute to the world of ideas, if you want to

Putting ideas into words doesn't have to mean writing, of course. You can also do it the old way, by talking. But in my experience, writing is the str

I finally understood, in some exquisite way, the cost of all these years spent dividing myself in two: little whore or Jack’s baby girl. Needy slut or

“I found a piece you wrote in the footnote of a book that I admire.” In other words, it took effort for us to find each other. And much like an ineffi

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consumption choices force you to develop the habit of self-examination. And when you think about more complex life choices — what kind of personality

Truth and falsehood are not opposites.  The opposite of one truth is often another truth, and the opposite of one falsehood is usually another.   - D

You’re gonna hire someone for Meta to design your app? That world is dead. You’re done.

Where do you think the next great talent is coming from?Baristas, bartenders...people that have stories to tell, people that are doing cool shit. Ther

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The game has shifted, and the winning strategy with it. It’s no longer about understanding specialized details; it’s about grasping the high-level glo

What we do with our freedomThe examples of the excruciating etiquette of the aristocratic courts, the marriage market Rhimes dramatised, the civil ass

The workforce is splitting in two. Tech workers are either amplified by AI or shaken by it, and that divide shapes their feelings about work more than

When you say that the status quo draws people toward more individuated, personality-driven work, what do you think is causing that, both culturally an

to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

iUnlock doors with it.iMeet lovers through it.iOrder food with it.iSummon cars with it.iEven meditate with it.Apple designed the iPhone too well.So we

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

Finding Meaning in Our Never Enough Culture

“Over years success” - future series name idea celebrating ppl that took years and decades to win

Concerns about population growth are emerging again. A 2020 survey found that 39 percent of youth worldwide are hesitant to have children in the futur

The big cosmic joke is that energetically reaching for things from lack, actually just creates...more of it.

PirateWires JD: Friends, Romans, countrymen, I’m hiring a new writer. Could be you, could be a friend or acquaintance. Please take a look and pass t

for a long time i’ve been trying to figure out the exact kind of role i’m most interested in, and i think part of the difficulty is that it doesn’t fu

“Every group of people who think for a living is going to be sad. Ignorance is bliss. So what’s the opposite?” – Chris Rock

Yes > Prestige is a brain worm, and its shape changes all the time. Keep your identity small, and don’t fear starting over. The people who will win

But the bigger loss of human agency comes from the billions of people that use these apps. These deep learning AIs are designed to maximize the time w

First, no nostalgia! The old world was bad. Those staid institutions and rigid hierarchies are not worth mourning. I went to a grinder high school and

Not to belabor the point, but people will pay you because doing so is an easier way to solve their pain than anything they might be able to do themsel

Vertically integrated products can move faster initially because they own the entire workflow and offer users the proverbial easy button to get starte

The primitive is the product — Amplify Partners

And once you get the primitive right, it becomes the building block that everyone else standardizes around.