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Nothing · Inspiration & Quotes It could be in the stars, in your heart but not in your palms. Destiny is a wicked thing. Logic says it's written Faith says it can be rewritten --- Nothing is harder on the soul as the smell of dreams, while…

Inspiration & Quotes × Money, Work & Power Suffering is required must be cope. Pain People might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of, or because of, his suffering. I like to think that van Gog…

Inspiration & Quotes A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

Inspiration & Quotes × People & Society A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the worl…

Inspiration & Quotes × People & Society And maybe a dozen of types of people There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. --- Aristotle said that some peopl…

Science, Nature & The Future Emotion Energy in motion People & Society Ad Hominem: many think that ad hominem is actually a fallacy. It is more often a rigorous method of exploration. There are cases when you focus on the person, others whe…

People & Society It’s okay to feel bad for people, or see aspects of the good in people, even if they’ve done bad things. The bad things are still bad and the good things are still good. --- People are very aware of the power of one wrong d…

Inspiration & Quotes × People & Society Not sure, don’t think gentleness was what helped me How gentle are you with people who remind you of old versions of yourself? Misc Life is beautiful for a hour sometimes

People & Society One of the ways modern psychology is limited is that a lot of people are unreliable narrators of their own experiences simply because they don’t know enough words Memes & Culture See far too many young men these days with f…

Inspiration & Quotes × AI & New Tech Very crucial to reassess priors When you refuse to reason from first principles and cling to dogmas, you accumulate cognitive dissonances. And every unresolved dissonance is a process running in the back…

Human · Inspiration & Quotes × AI & New Tech Interesting Just as pornography can stimulate the human sex drive without providing any actual sex, and democracy can stimulate the human power drive without providing any actual power, so AI can…

People & Society × Inspiration & Quotes I sometimes wonder if a critical preference for context over text does not reflect a generation made impatient with deep reading --- I like people with opinions, it’s the ones that don’t have any that…

Inspiration & Quotes × AI & New Tech There’s something beautiful about the most expensive game of all time ($2B) being dropped the same month that AI models became capable of creating comparable experiences. Inspiration & Quotes × Money, Wo…

Inspiration & Quotes × People & Society Ironic, no Imagine you’re a kid, and before a family gathering you say “I don’t want to go.” And instead of getting curious with you, your parents say “Don’t be selfish.” Do you think you’ll grow up t…

Inspiration & Quotes There’s a bit that shows up frequently in Looney Tunes where Bugs Bunny will be in an argument and he will suddenly reverse his position, so that the other character assumes the desired position in opposition to Bugs. I…

Give · Inspiration & Quotes the main thing that reading gives us (apart from pleasure and some wisdom) is an ability not to be subject only to ‘present-ism'...someone has been here before, felt what we have felt and managed to navigate this…

Inspiration & Quotes I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question. --- Why everything is so irony pilled In a hundred years, the imperative of origin…

Become · Inspiration & Quotes Not having been able to do what they desire, they have made a show of desiring what they were able to do. "Cringe" has become a slur for sincerity, designed to kill joy and talent starting when we're children.…

Inspiration & Quotes My being was never sunk so low as to seek praise from some mere humans. Misc Humility isn’t thinking less of yourself. It’s thinking about yourself less

Inspiration & Quotes Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. So we must stretch ourselves to the very limits of human possibility. Anything…

Inspiration & Quotes × People & Society Jung on god DURING THE PAST thirty years, people from all the civilized countries of the earth have consulted me. Many hundreds of patients have passed through my hands.... Among all my patients in th…

Time · Inspiration & Quotes × People & Society Beautiful They bring the bread before you have even settled into the booth. This is not a gesture of kindness. It is a siege tactic designed to destroy the structural integrity of the human ego…

Inspiration & Quotes Anybody who knew the emperor personally was perfectly aware of his lifelong passion for the written word. His early classmates and instructors repeatedly testified to his penchant for books. Later, his generals and mars…

Inspiration & Quotes × Design & Objects Goethe knew From this time forward, if a man does not apply himself to some art or handiwork, he will be in a bad way. In the rapid changes of the world, knowledge is no longer a furtherance; by the t…

People & Society A couple decades of air conditioning and people suddenly think oh this is the natural condition of mankind. No. We used to have eight kids because seven didn't make it. You're gonna be fine. Misc Engineers are peer reviewed…

Inspiration & Quotes × People & Society Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. Misc The essence of tragedy isn’t the conflict of right and wrong, it’s the conflict of right and right --- I’m a good cath…

Inspiration & Quotes × People & Society To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to…

Memes & Culture × Money, Work & Power You cannot use the phrase "do as I say not as I do". This doesn't work at all. Kids will emulate If you do not want your kid drinking, don't drink in front of them. Same with sports, music etc. They jus…

Great · Inspiration & Quotes A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his sh…

Happen · Inspiration & Quotes The impulse to keep to yourself what you have discovered is not only shameful, it is destructive --- You can not change the human condition but try and mitigate bad externalities One of the reasons why I am in…

People & Society × Inspiration & Quotes On a quest against nostalgia The saddest realization I’ve ever had is realizing for some people childhood was really the happiest time of their life for reasons beyond their control and their attachme…

Public · Design & Objects Show my the incentives I’ll show you the outcomes --- Whodathunkit --- Little · People & Society People too much taken up with little things usually become incapable of big ones --- my life's philosophy is that I w…

Memes & Culture × People & Society Explains stuff much more cleanly than just “social media use” although I’m guessing bit of that is captured here Inspiration & Quotes A step backward after making a wrong turn is a step in the right direct…

Mind · Inspiration & Quotes × People & Society The law of life is the law of belief. A belief is a thought in your mind. Do not believe in things to harm or hurt you. Believe in the power of your subconscious to heal, inspire, strengthen, a…

Science, Nature & The Future × People & Society A “sense of a foreshortened future” versus the sense that “all is possible” --- A highly creative person who doesn't have an external project to invest their energy into will eventually destro…

Inspiration & Quotes × People & Society We are such hypocrites that we view another person's suffering as punishment for their sins, yet regard our own suffering as a test! Inspiration & Quotes × Memes & Culture Our culture often confuses u…

Inspiration & Quotes × People & Society You’re never too old to restart i wonder how often people in the 2020s use the opportunity afforded by a crisis- a messy divorce, a big career embarrassment- to start a totally new life somewhere else…

Design & Objects Inspiration & Quotes Kierkegaard really was that guy Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion,…

Money, Work & Power × People & Society Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world. --- There will never be a “right time” There are always plenty of rivals to our work. We are always falling in love…

Artist · Inspiration & Quotes × Design & Objects Fear is the cheapest seat in the house, I’d like to see you living in better conditions --- Everyone’s terrified, convinced the studios don’t need artists anymore. It’s the artist that doesn’…

Inspiration & Quotes You will serve something, choose wisely I think I'm ready to go back to church. I haven't found Jesus yet, but I've seen enough of Satan. Design & Objects Never cared never will Misc This type of engine doesn’t run off…

Public · Design & Objects --- Every time --- Lmfao b like that Money, Work & Power What’s more important, the journey or destination? The company Misc Martyr? I thought you said murder. Oh well, okay. Never mind then, I'm busy --- That’s go…

Design & Objects Sisyphean People & Society × Inspiration & Quotes People will be in Hell thinking they’re in heaven and tell you that you need to do what they do to get into heaven --- V timely These patients present an unusual degree of s…

Money, Work & Power × Inspiration & Quotes MBA consensus is the funniest inverse indicator Funny that everyone who wanted to make money in the mid 2000s learned to speak Chinese and everyone who wanted to do international development learne…

Design & Objects End · Inspiration & Quotes × People & Society Rip Once there was a man who filmed his vacation. He went flying down the river in his boat with his video camera to his eye, making a moving picture of the moving river upon wh…

Inspiration & Quotes × Memes & Culture There’s obviously something we need to dig into. Blanket blaming social media or smartphones is ridiculous especially when you use data which sure is correlated with smartphone/social media take off bu…

Control · Inspiration & Quotes To extend one’s memory through deeds: this is the work of courage. --- He feigns hope in his face, and presses the pain deep in his heart --- The paradox of the will centers on the problem of desire. I can ver…

People & Society Now our ability to reason has often been claimed to be what distinguishes us from other species; so it seems somewhat paradoxical, on first thought, to mechanize that which is most human. Yet even the ancient Greeks knew th…

Design & Objects Inspiration & Quotes × People & Society Attention is prophecy. Where you direct it determines what kind of world you perceive, and what kind of self you become. This is why belief matters, because an active lens through whi…

Public · Design & Objects --- Premium mediocre, airport loungification I hate these people --- Some days this is exactly what you need Inspiration & Quotes × AI & New Tech A lot of tech industry personality behaviors are simply a reflection…

Public · Design & Objects Premium mediocre is perfect --- If you not playing tennis those shits are sneakers --- It’s insane really Inspiration & Quotes Like all men, he was simply given bad times in which to live. AI & New Tech Need 10 htt…

Know · Inspiration & Quotes Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man. You take a step towards him, he takes a step back. Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man. --- Hemingway put it best No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of ol…

Reciprocal · Inspiration & Quotes Edmund Burke, against Locke's idea that darkness is not naturally an idea of terror: '[I]n utter darkness, it is impossible to know in what degree of safety we stand; we are ignorant of the objects that sur…

Png · Design & Objects --- Jeweled medieval chess playing robot commissioned by Dries Van Noten --- Real one --- --- Meow Fuji --- Knowledge · Inspiration & Quotes I'm doing badly, I'm doing well, whichever you prefer; --- IT IS NOT THE CRI…

Public · Design & Objects Everyone’s just winging it --- --- --- --- The I can do whatever the fuck I want, you can’t fire me of haircuts --- I love humanity Money, Work & Power The scariest part of the advancements in aging is the increasi…

Public · Design & Objects Origin of Oregan has been up for debate --- This is so real --- --- No use crying over --- --- You can also see these in real life if you squint --- Stress --- It’s really that easy Weight · Inspiration & Quotes Yo…

Public · Design & Objects Victorian-era mechanical fan-parasol --- Inspiration & Quotes Be like that He's like a boxer that needs to get hit before he gives you his full attention --- Endless optionality is a trap A lot of you are cheating…

Inspiration & Quotes × People & Society Shitty food makes the difference on sleep inertia There’s also another possibility: you’re describing sleep inertia. Normally yours sounds extremely low—you wake and immediately move. If something cau…

Public · Design & Objects --- If they had just let frontier and spirit merge we could’ve avoided all of this. Also just fb marketplace levels of lowballing going on --- Retrograding food is insane but I’m intrigued Science, Nature & The Fut…

Public --- Yeah, death penalty https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/grading-the-worlds-shortest-manifesto --- Evergreen Public · Inspiration & Quotes Mental improvement is about becoming less dangerous on your worst days. Mental improvement is less a…

Beautifully · Inspiration & Quotes × People & Society We've come so far. The future is so bright For most of history, surgery was done without anesthesia. Fruit was a luxury: people used to rent pineapples to show them off at parties. --- B…

Public · Design & Objects --- Lmfaoo that’s tough --- If you think you can or cannot, you are right --- --- all 9 --- Real --- --- --- --- World · Inspiration & Quotes × People & Society St. Francis of Assisi: Start by doing what's necessar…

Public · Design & Objects --- --- Evergreen --- Genius --- Nah --- Terrible mix up Man · Inspiration & Quotes × People & Society When I see a man infatuated with logic, I wager at once that he is not logical. --- These fucking boomers will…

Public · Design & Objects --- --- Really destroys your impulsivity and taste for risk --- Nah why they do that to my man --- 1 sigma each --- --- Gotta have good opsec --- Maybe we let it go --- Narrative validation --- Are people okay in t…

Public · Design & Objects I need a signed copy, don’t really agree much with his letter tho --- Military manual 1943 lmao --- Gang --- Focus on what you can affect and the amount of things you can affect naturally grow over time --- Crying…

Public · Design & Objects Amazing --- Never doubt the American consumers will and ability to consume --- Monkee know, monkee do --- Art --- --- --- Onwards Public All we need is a 25x of annual spend --- Italia looks so beautiful --- My god…

Public · Design & Objects It’s only just begun Gonna be bumpy, but net good and solid soon --- --- --- --- Much to think about --- Beautifully executed --- Break free --- Insane rates we do not have to stand for this shit what the fuck ---…

Public · Design & Objects Lmao, find god --- Never forget --- Miss those days --- Fucking discussing --- Once I get my resting heart during sleep below 40 I’m throwing such a banger Inspiration & Quotes When one generation tolerates a sin,…

Become · Inspiration & Quotes The soul troubles the Spaniard, and that's why he wants to die. Either he becomes a bandit—not to steal, to see if someone will kill him; or he becomes a saint—not to live a holy life, but to annihilate himself…

Money, Work & Power Copy right law is so interesting. They included termination you have a 5 year window to get back your work incase you were young and dumb. So they include this concept of Authorship as that can never be transferred, unli…

Everyone · Inspiration & Quotes Mr. Gorbachev tear down all but the ONE wall! people go around with all these walls in their mind to stop inappropriate thoughts whereas i just have ONE good wall between thought and action and as long as tha…

People & Society × Inspiration & Quotes This actually the inverse of the toughness of the field Von Neumann said it best If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. --…

Stay · Inspiration & Quotes Practicality is usually the case Know why there are so many fewer clinical studies of LSD than other psychedelics (not talking ibogaine; that’s another issue)? Because it lasts so long and most lab employees just…

People & Society × Inspiration & Quotes People really love giving unsolicited advice for situations they’d never be in YOU would do 4% annually, that’s why YOU would never get there. --- ... there is a fate worse than death / and its living…

People & Society On Leopold. People love to build you up to tear you down. He'll be back. Swimming with the sharks you can't expect to not get bit. --- Harpy Eagle is the most powerful Eagle in the world. It’s wingspan can get up to 7.5 fee…