I have been regularly thinking of this banger speech from Conclave.

Here’s a hard truth about modern society. We don’t practice Capitalism anymore. Rather, for the last 40 years we’ve been conducting a horrific experiment called “neoliberalism”. And we’re near the terminal point in that experiment, a stage I’ve been calling metastatic market

One of the most stagnating beliefs: “I already know.” The moment you think you fully understand something (your partner, your work, yourself) is when you stop growing and get stuck in the same patterns. The wisest people are the ones in wonder. Asking: “What do I not know?”

A man who says he knows is already dead. But the man who thinks, "I don't know", who is discovering, finding out, who is not seeking an end, not thinking in terms of arriving or becoming - such a man is living, and that living is truth. - (Krishnamurti's response to the question

Romantics see the world through the lens of beauty. Most sober romantics choose to keep doing so while knowing the full picture. Imagine seeing beauty when others are blind to it. That is what creative genius is, it inspires a thousand other souls to see more beauty. A quiet

"The reason every wisdom tradition, from Taoism to modern neuroscience, identifies uncertainty tolerance as the fundamental skill is that uncertainty is the essential nature of existence itself – it is the gap between cause and affect where all possibility lives."

This is the only chart you need

ignore all "alpha male" slop and read this book

You need to be surrounding yourself with soft lights, you need to be barely able to see after the sun goes down, you need to feel like you are walking through a maze of soft yellow and black, you need to be living your late nights in a dream before you even sleep.

Tom Morgan It would be awful to die to never see or hear or love or move But that’s already how most people are Is there life Before death? That's the question! ✨

A friend sent this to me so I thought I would share it

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day,

Master the sciences, master the arts. Become a polymath and a polyglot. A hacker and a pianist. An entrepreneur and a poet. A mathematician and a writer. An investor and an athlete. A physicist and a historian. Embrace the Greco-Roman ideal of being a well-balanced man.

THE FOREST KING is finally out on YouTube. Digital IDs, 15 Min Cities, Technocracy, the Metaverse, and the struggle for the soul's dignity. Link in Bio.