beginner: let people be wrong intermediate: let people be wrong about thing you care about advanced: let people be wrong about you

Thank god someone else had externalized that thought so I don't have to look so stupid for being like that too "Can I be loved genuinely while doing everything possible to remain isolated?" A timely reminder to stop doomscrolling this toxic platform and connect with IRL people

you know how some hobbies and lifestyles exclude certain people, and are predominantly for certain classes? Gambling is available for all. You can begin here at an entry level. Many stories of people turning $100 into $100k. Many many more. That doesn't happen in other hobbies

Three years ago, I cold-emailed Jason Citron and landed an internship at Discord while in high school. He responded in 30 minutes. Sending that email changed my life forever :)

Crazy how you can ask an artist what happened to a work of theirs you really admire, and they're like, 'I extremely dislike it and deleted it.'

one day i'll transcribe the whole 'Understand' by Ted Chiang by hand, love this short story way too much

Remember that intellectualisation—thinking about things to avoid feeling them—is a defence mechanism.

Darth Powell

Nicholas Fabiano, MD Breakdown of the paper: The study found that a person's life satisfaction is very, very strongly connected to their personality traits. When they removed all the usual problems from how things were measured, they could predict how happy someone was with their life almost

my favorite ways to talk to a stranger: - offer to take a photo for them in pretty places - ask what food they ordered - comment on how beautiful the weather is - give them a casual compliment - ask what they're reading - ask for directions - casual smile when you walk by either

when you internalize this truth, you set yourself free of the ~10 businesses i've attempted, ~2 have worked out. and most of them have been weird businesses that you'd be embarrassed to explain to your grandmother. like selling nicotine pouches online, or acquiring government

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SM rewards outrage and performance at the expense of cold, hard truth

Never deleting this app

Taking a break from Twitter until '26 Might miss some airdrop checkers but the peanuts wouldn't be worth the mental health detriment anyway