Of course, the stories you tell yourself are useless if you don’t take action. “No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess,” the psychologist William James wrote, no matter how good one’s stories may be, “if one [does not] act, one’s life may remain entirely unaffected for the better.” One’s life, as James puts it, “is an aggregate of

Obsidian and Sublime are modular synthesizers for idea

synthesizers (i.e. tool for synthesis) are latent space browsers

The path to greater pleasure lies not in increased stimulation*, but in enhancing one's sensitivity.

Increase in sensitivity can be achieve by practicing the arts of attention.

*over-stimulation tend to lead to numbing