On 8/11/26
Daily Letter
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
Shape · Inspiration & Quotes × AI & New Tech
Conclusions are cheap
“Why read books when the AI can just summarize them?"
The summary was never the point. Reading is a sustained encounter with another mind. 300 pages of someone's thinking pressed up against your thinking, for hours, over days.
A summary gives you the conclusions. But conclusions are cheap.
What's expensive & rare & precious is the shape of the thinking that got there. You cannot compress that, you can only sit with it.
We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us
Time · Inspiration & Quotes × Money, Work & Power
Use it or lose it
Unused money devalues. Unused talent diminishes. Unused potential decays.
Unused machinery disintegrates. Unused time dies. Unused knowledge becomes a burden. What isn't used is abused. The tragedy of life isn't the ultimate death, but the resources that die within you when you are still alive. Use it, or you will lose it.
B-b-but I love looking in mirrors
There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
People & Society
There’s a whole category of persons who interpret disagreements as personal attacks
Wish we’d stop romanticizing poverty
It sucks, and people succeed in spite of not because of