If you can figure out how to configure your default state to be slightly amused rather than slightly annoyed you pretty much enter God Mode

Probably one of the most important psychological principles for "anxious" or "sensitive" people to understand: if you resist a thing that you cannot actually avoid, you will end up traumatized from it. Weaker. More Anxious. More fearful. A vicious cycle. The ONLY way to prevent

First we think we are all good. Then we suffer a little & either settle into blaming others or else realise we are really quite fucked. Then we may look at our childhood and how our parents’ selfish and narrow actions impacted us. We may feel angry. I urge you, dont stop there…

Go on, have some guts

everyone wants a village, but no one wants to be a villager > drive your friends to the airport > go to their party even when you're tired > stop cancelling last minute > host at your place > support the wins & losses it's worth every ounce of effort

Does your body freak out when stepping on/off still escalators?

What do you think is the fundamental difference between those who freak out and those who don’t?

if you can get past the surface-level thinking around this tweet and dive deeper into its core meaning. you will quickly realize that this is one of the hardest-hitting truths life starts to show you past a certain age. one of those you either get or you never will

The replacement of US Global Hegemony with a series of overlapping bilateral defense pacts in the world's biggest powder kegs is great news for Return of History enjoyers.

I wonder if there’s anything coming down the road that will be so genuinely useful that we’ll inevitably make civilization-destroying errors in its near-universal deployment. Nah, probably not.

I've never seen anyone point this out before, and it's one of the smartest insights I've ever seen. Trump redefines modern politics. He sells the stock market on his political agenda, and this creates a captive political constituency betting "long" on MAGA.

remind yourself how many societies are set up as pension rackets and now realize it’s all to allow many people to stare into their phones uninterrupted for years

I was driving home from the store today and imagining life remapped to a single day. Both my parents are gone now and I've been reflecting more on mortality. It feels so unreal and intangible. It's 4:30 pm for me, I still have time left but it's finite. It all goes by so fast

also, the problem with happy people: - most people navigate life totally intuitively - on the surface it looks like everyone kinda does the same things (go to school apply for jobs date) but with VASTLY different results - our lives fracture along much more subtle lines

When I first started my career, they told me not to live near the shipyard because it was sketchy. But apartments were cheap, and I couldn’t get over the fact that I would have a practically private “beach” right next to the ghost of America’s first nuclear aircraft carrier.

had 1 and 2 in 2025, have since traded 1 for 3 (moved to London, job is only high pay, neither intellectual nor impactful) still have 2, amazingly. 🎡🎠

The issue with “touch grass” is that you literally can’t get the authentic human experience anymore unless you’re exclusively interacting with people who are also entirely unplugged Meatspace is a game whose servers went down 15 years ago and now you only have singleplayer

Just stare at the woman... Watch her the way you watch a line when fishing and before long... you'll get a little nibble, a little fact asking in a timid, humble way if you're interested in it... After a while you may find that the nibbles you get are more interesting than your

Sincere advice, especially for those in their 20s: if you ever find yourself creating a little theoretical framework in order make yourself feel superior to your peers, you need to immediately stop and direct that same energy toward building a real skill or making money.

British class system= 20 something woman renting on minimum wage is middle class because she reads books; 50 something man who owns her house and three others is working class because he expresses socially conservative views in a regional accent. That’s how it works.