if you knew what the gods had planned for you, you would go dancing naked down at the water

<Techno optimism with a healthy fear of God

Next time your kids scream in public and someone without kids seems annoyed, remember they’re free-riding. Our species is done unless we have kids. The people who choose to spend time and money on themselves instead of the next generation can hear a little bit of crying.

big energetic disconnect—a schism, even—between people who see child-like playfulness as a sign of vitality and intellectual curiosity versus people who see it as unacceptable immaturity

“America First” crowd when it’s time to feed 40 million Americans

This essay hits the nail on the head in terms of showing how misleading the label of "luxury" can be, and how we can take more pleasure in many more everyday experiences as long as we attune our senses to their value.

95% of the time my favorite part of the day is eating dinner with my girlfriend. there are so many things I enjoy doing day to day - reading, training, writing, working, learning - even unproductive things, gaming, youtube, movies, etc - things i would have told you are my

I can’t help but think (and feel) that the world is generally very sad right now. Injured really. Yesterday I was in Utah with family. Three generations. We played sports, enjoyed good food, saw friends, and just messed around all day. One of the best days in recent memory for

Having different opinions about a thing is almost never a reason for enmity. Well reasoned or principled disagreements are valuable, and a main source of progress in science, philosophy, politics, society and personal development. Cultivate disagreeable friends!

Your sense of aesthetics is best reflected in the way you dress & the way you organize your surroundings. Clearly you don't need expensive clothes ("une Parisienne sait s'habiller avec un chiffon"). Without aesthetics (elegance in both looks and behavior), a human is no human.

It feels like I’ve been experiencing this myself in the past year or so, after an emotionally meat-grinding few years prior. I look forward to this renaissance wave of my own, but feel an obligation in far greater magnitude to look out for others down bad on the world.

Blessed is the return of breakfasts in the early spring sun

Another immaculate breakfast, this time Bavaria-style

Some pictures from a bygone Provençal summer, pulling me forcefully towards even warmer times against the fading spring vertigo of late April.

It is my sincere belief that more hope-poasting here is needed

During my most trying year so far, a great part of which passed in just one set of surroundings, I did have the good fortune of spending a sunny August in Prague, surrounded by no one I knew, breaking meaningfully from my calcified daily habits. I wouldn’t say that this month