Goated writing music:

The paradox of wearing an Oura ring was that it made me sleep worse. What if everything didn’t need to be tracked? What if measurement is a hindrance? “You can only manage what you can measure” has some limits.

AI doesn’t have taste or intuition.

I find it fascinating how texting leads to more last-minute changes of plans. Less commitment. I once asked my grandpa how they did it back then in the age of the wall phone. He said they'd call each other and pick a place to meet. "What was the waiting policy? It's not like you

“Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation.” — Henry David Thoreau baxterwrites.com/p/lessinputs

Marshall McLuhan in 1964 on the future of work in our world:

Hypothesis: I don’t think we need to send day-of confirmation texts for dinners. But what about being a “good” communicator? Well…what if it’s worse? More data and decisions, more anxiety, and less commitment. I guess we’ll see what happens :)

Thomas Cole, "The Return." Eyes are in awe.

“By the time I graduated from college in 2007, the idea that life should be built around a good corporate job was so sacred that almost everyone had forgotten that only 100 years earlier most people worked on farms.” — Paul Millerd, The Pathless Path

Just realized how brutal my neck posture is. Total tilt down. All from reading and looking at my Macbook. I wonder if there's more subtle shame in society because of this? Just like how Jordan Peterson talks about the lobster and how body language impacts mood and perception.

Self improvement is mostly a scam. If the ultimate goal is to become yourself and surrender to your own nature, you by definition shouldn’t be doing what other people are doing.

What's up with people naming all their stuff? Plants, cars, or any object. This must be a North American thing that reveals a materialistic culture where people replace real people with things. What if this personification points to emptiness of modern souls?

Curiosity is like a phone call with a friend. You don't pick up and say, "Why the hell are you calling me?" No. You're like, "Hey, how are you?" When something catches your curiosity, you don't have to explain why. You just invite it in. It goes beyond reason.

If clocks didn’t exist, the question of “what do you do” would also not exist.