You have two choices: 1. Develop an ability to focus on high-level creative work for several hours each day. 2. Build a belief system that describes invisible, all-powerful people who trapped you. Option two is the default mode for most 40+ adults. I don't recommend it.

Two years of, 'Designers and copywriters are cooked'. Yet startup websites have barely improved. It's the same ocean of generic designs and bullshit slogans, eg. 'Supercharge your sales'. AI simply ships faster. Taste is now MORE valuable, because it's higher stakes.

🚨 The greatest life hack is treating your future self like a stranger you want to help. Your brain can't emotionally connect with Future You. Brain imaging studies show that when you think about yourself in 10 years, the same neural regions light up as when you think about

The older you get, the more you realize luck is mostly exposure. If you sit in the same place, have the same routine, talking to the same people, nothing new really happens. You have to tackle the world to win. Travel more. Talk to people. Try a breakfast spot. Post on social

Large-scale luxury cruises have no appeal to me, yet a small boat cruise is an entirely different species and a valid option worth considering. The advantage of a cruise is that your hotel travels with you, so you unpack only once. It is especially useful for small groups because

All bullshit is relative. Go through an experience you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy. Not chill but always bearable if it was the byproduct of courage. Meaningful even Some situation you didn’t choose though? Where you’re fully aware that you’re in it because you made a

This is why the most logical choice is ironically the most illogical thing you can do. With anything in life, whether it's job, city, relationship, etc. The more something can be cleanly justified, the more costly it will end up being for you The long winded explanations will

Florence was the original skunkworks: Botticelli, Lippi, Leonardo, Ghirlandaio, Donatello, Verrocchio, Perugino, Raphael. All products of the same 2.4-square-mile lab. In the 1470s Florence had 21 guilds regulating quality, controlling market entry, and running formal

You must develop your own theories about your pursuits. Why? 1. When you develop your own theory, you learn it from first principles so you truly understand it. When you copy others, do what you read it books, or listen to a coach you don’t understand. You are just doing, so

Humans were made to create, not consume. Writing is exactly that: pure, unfiltered creation. And it impacts us neurologically and philosophically. The easiest way to become more intelligent is to write. Write a lot. Write daily. Publish it. If you succeed, you may even

Civilization was built by people like this, and there is a stunning lack of gratitude in our culture for their work. In this specific case, at least half of the apple varieties in Brown’s collection were considered “lost” until he personally tracked them down and saved them.

Scrolling is pure evil. An hour of brainrot doesn’t just leave a hole where something meaningful could have been but also actively degrades the machinery you’d need to fill that hole. It corrupts your capacity for sustained attention. Books become harder, conversations feel

Alex Corbusier was the real fascist, I think.

“The secret to doing great work is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.” This Amos Tversky quote is 1000x more true today. As technology accelerates, reserving time and energy for indulging your curiosity is ever more important.

Even a single fictional book like The Count of Monte Cristo can teach you a lot more than a hundred self help books can. We are narrative creatures, shaped by stories that slip past our defenses. Our entire reality is subject to narrativization, and we cannot learn anything

Every time that I run to the beach and see this, I am reminded that living where you want, to me, is actually "making it." I could be a firefighter for the rest of my time so long that it is here.

This reminds me of trying to play a car racing game with a keyboard. Obv kind of extreme case but steering input using keyboard just sucks. Can you imagine car throttle as a momentary toggle between either 0% and full 100%? Analog continuous scale inputs require joysticks,

These are superb posts.

MOST PEOPLE SUCK AT LEISURE. leisure doesn’t mean doing nothing. it doesn't mean switching off your brain, rotting on your sofa, or doomscrolling tiktok. leisure means doing something for its own sake. something that demands your highest capacities and makes you a better human.