On 8/1/26
Daily Letter
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 to hear eulogies / for the person you could have been
How much of life is just people living vicariously through others
People want to hear songs with the words they're afraid to say.
Nic Cage's comeback is what the world needed.
We must make an effort to be more understanding and forgiving to our fellow man
If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice
and violence we inflict upon our own natures.
James Baldwin, 1963
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
AI & New Tech × Science, Nature & The Future
Honestly knowing there’s better models inside really is the best recruiting tool cause if I could just get access to a lil bit for side projects I’d put my time in
https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/
Public
“You’re either alive or dead”
Until death all defeat is psychological
Public · Design & Objects
Should’ve done the cheap Japan trips when we had the chance
Minimalism must go, maximalismmaxxing trinkets galore
The net good for all will far outweigh the weirdness
Next time ac is out
Chat this true
Sometimes you gotta check in on yaself
Hard
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Cooking
Yeah, sure, in theory, but China doesn't care about textbooks and theory
Issey
Would bet on this
Maintain the memory of a goldfish
No, it’s not. Your math is just wrong.
People do not understand the scale Meta works at. Narrative has been far removed from reality, it will pay off, soon
Wrong.
The slop will continue to be refined until it’s no longer differentiable
GOAT became a word the year the goat arrived.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/1996
Open full size
Adapt or lose
Everyone says “follow the money” until it’s time to actually parse through the money and then it’s just easier to cry incompetence.
God forbid you have to dig further than a layer or two
Flag of United States Fish and Wildlife Service (1949-1989)
Happy birthday to the southern hemisphere horses
What a happy family
Sometimes you have have the wrong lens on the situation and should step away and come back to it
All · Inspiration & Quotes
It's simple, but not easy.
For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.
Remember what it's all for
No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.
"For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn."
Until death, all defeat is psychological
Although it might be difficult right now, you have made it through difficult times before. You will make it through this, too
Never retard expressing yourself for the sake of how it'll be viewed by others
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
Memes & Culture × Design & Objects
Ye contracts wild, he really took on so much out of pocket and liability for the sake of getting the art out how he wanted.
Worth it
Memes & Culture
One of the most thoughtful interviews regarding the film(still haven’t seen it)
Misc
significant crystallized -> fluid, and no proof cartels theory of significant fluid -> crystallized
Something in you narrates, and something else witnesses the narration
My alone time is for everyone else's safety
Re: JPY, weakening dollar, rotation has already begun. Plan accordingly