Stuart Evans

Agency is the skill that built the world around you, an all-purpose life intensifier that lets you make your corner of it more like what you want it to be, whether that’s professional, relational, aesthetic, whatever. Build a better mousetrap. Have an enviable marriage. Start a country. No one is born with it, everyone can learn it, and it’s never... See more

in the most perverse inversion of philosophy and morality - any person who fails to learn through compulsory schooling is regarded as having a “learning disorder”. And yet it is culture which has a “schooling disorder”.

This process of distillation never ends. We never “arrive” at distillation. It is a continuous process of refining. And that’s what makes it fun, you know? To know that we can always distill more crisply. That we can focus more powerfully. That our essence could be more potent. That our experiences can be deeper. That I could write this in half the

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You do not have to surrender your commitment to facts to participate in an alternate reality. You just have to engage with one, in any way. If you are a user of digital systems, if you allow them to provide you recommendations, if you train them on your preferences, if you respond in any way to the likes, downvotes, re-shares, and comment features... See more

love already knows how to respond when it encounters suffering. When we stop interfering with this natural movement—when we cease trying to fix, manage, or improve what we find—our essential nature reveals its inherent wisdom.