If you don't own a rifle, your opinion is mostly irrelevant. Everything humans do to interact and work together is a proxy for force. Force is base-level communication, because it requires no common language or concepts, and it definitively settles every dispute. Problem with

Vinay Hiremath Against all evidence your mind is telling you that you have no idea what to do with your life. Clearly you do know what to do: Live in Hawaii, study Physics, and tweet about this issue. (Also you clearly know what you do not want.) So what you seem to be really saying is: I

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. - Pascal You can't get there from here. Our minds excel at problem solving. We often think: if only I knew more, had more information, or discovered some new insight, then I could solve the problem. But what if the

My metrics for success have radically shifted over the years. I can’t fully explain how it happened and aging might play a part, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. The easiest yardstick for success is money. A watch, a car - these things are tangible. Measurable. But chasing

Trying to explain the digital to an analog person - Me: “Grok 4 took the SAT and made a perfect score.” Analog person: “Well, it should. It has access to practically all knowledge that can be known.” Me: “Yes, but it beat the other ai’s, like ChatGPT and Claude.” Analog

It may have been James Altucher who introduced me to the idea of no complaints. Maybe a 'no complaints' diet or a fasting for 24 hours. I've since embraced it. I am not perfect, but I realize that complaining tends to only make things worse. If that is the goal, to make the

Is it possible to make a million dollars posting videos on YouTube about how to make a million dollars? Based on my feed, must be something to that . . .

Dr. Richard Schwartz brought parts work out into the open - today his work is generally referred to as Internal Family Systems. Every one of us has said, at one time, "a part of me" wants to zig, while "another part of me" wants to zag. Schwartz elevated those sometimes

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if you ask "why" enough times you end up in the math department if you keep asking "why" enough time afterwards, you end up in church

No one has stronger opinions than someone who knows a little bit about something, that’s why tourists always have ideas to “fix” the countries they visit, that’s why amateurs love to criticize professionals, that’s why young people love to judge older people: the more you know,

Conor Neill literally exposed why smart people stay broke:

Self-help books for women vs. men aren’t selling the same story. If you walk through the self-help section and compare the books marketed to men with those aimed at women, the contrast is striking. The books for men tend to emphasize stoicism, discipline, and self-sufficiency:

You have to be in the arena, feeling the heat on your face, making mistakes in real time. 😅 The first walk we hosted was *terrifying*. Our founder @ellebeecher had zero experience hosting events. No community building background. Just a quiet knowing that people craved real

He really compressed 4 years of therapy into 60 seconds.

If you feel guilty every time you rest, ask yourself this: Was the person who taught you that guilt ever at peace themselves? Criticism often isn't wisdom. It's projection. And you've been living by it your whole life.

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We’re living through a strange inversion: the habits most people can adopt are losing status, while the traits few people can change are becoming the new currency of success. Traits that are widely attainable and reliably linked to success seem to be losing cultural status,

When your working life rewards you, it’s easy to ratchet up the complexity: homes, cars, travel, possessions etc. I have found that all that complexity comes at the sake of your most fleeting asset: your time. Instead of building things, all of a sudden you’re dealing with