Stuart Evans
- The challenge is that a focus on speed and a focus on mass are often diametrically opposed. Speed encourages us to think short-term. Mass is a long-term project. And the more we immerse ourselves in the high-speed world, the more we think everything has to happen now. But it rarely does, and if we try, we can steadily reorient our focus from Speed ... See more
from Addicted to Speed by Infinite Play
- Instead of wasting time trying to copy-and-paste a system from a self-help book, everyone should intentionally design a system that works for them, based on their goals, their personality, and their obligations. But it doesn’t mean we need to reinvent the wheel and design our system from scratch. We can pick-and-choose from existing systems and add... See more
from Is there a perfect productivity system? by Ness Labs
evolutionarily, why would we be so disgusting that we need constant cleaning? And constant moisturizing and/or de-oiling? If we do more to allow our oil glands and bacteria to equilibrate, the theory goes, skin should stop fluctuating between oily and dry.
from I Quit Showering, and Life Continued by The Atlantic
- Something fundamental in our culture has ended. What exactly, I can’t quite put my finger on. As many things in the liminal, it’s hard to grasp. But if we want to birth something new out of it, we have to come to terms with endings. We have to come to terms with the ultimate ending, the very thing Covid-19 forces us to look at: our inevitable death... See more
from Traversing the Underworld: What Myth can Teach us During the Pandemic by Alexander Beiner
- In this talk, I'm going to lay out an agenda for doing that. • To start, I have to dive into the details, and talk about what meaningfulness is—what it has to do with togetherness. That's the first section. • Next, I'll talk about how, as individuals or entrepreneurs, we can make things more or less meaningful.• Finally, I’ll use all that to talk a... See more
from Not Found by Joe Edelman
The philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti puts it this way: “It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” Perhaps it can also be said that it’s a sign of health (or not a sign of illness) to be maladjusted to a profoundly sick society?
from A Call to Rebellion: A New Story About Depression by Jonathan Carson
- When the path we’re on isn’t working, the solution isn’t necessarily to find some new slab of concrete to jump to. But rather look at where we want to go and start walking. Someone else’s system or routine might work for getting them where they want to go, but it’s unlikely you’re headed in the exact same direction.
from The Perfect Work Routine by Nat Eliason
- If you have a closed-off heart, and find it difficult to open yourself emotionally to other people and experiences, maybe stop running headfirst at trying to connect, and instead just take a cooking class, get way way way too into Jiu Jitsu or slavic poetry.
from Stop Running Headfirst into Problems by River Kenna
God is the source of reality. It is indeed that simple: whatever the source of reality is, that's God. The Big Bang, entropy, quantum fields — these are how , not why . Implementation details. Rather than whence , merely what . Means instead of self-justifying end.
from What is God? by Sonya Mann