On 9/10/26
Daily Letter
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. by definition we wouldn't hear from them. we hear instead from people who crash out, and overindex on those
The onus is on us
The modern hero, the modern individual who dares to heed the call and seek the mansion of that presence with whom it is our whole destiny to be atoned, cannot, indeed must not, wait for his community to cast off its slough of pride, fear, rationalized avarice, and sanctified misunderstanding. "Live," Nietzsche says, "as though the day were here." It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal —carries the cross of the redeemer not in the bright moments of his tribe's great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair.
Poverty humiliates men even to the extent of making them blush for their virtues
There are a ton of fundamental bugs in the Human Operating System...The higher you stick out, the more people want to chop you down.
Everything’s the same
The making of a painting or the fixing of a motorcycle isn't separate from the rest of your existence.
If you're a sloppy thinker the six days of the week you aren't working on your machine, what trap avoidances, what gimmicks, can make you all of a sudden sharp on the seventh?
It all goes together.
Public · Design & Objects
This is our edge. The most dynamic place in the world
Beautiful
Real
You never know what worst luck your bad luck saved you from
Damn
That’s true
Misc
You have always disliked authority because every fibre of your being knows you have enough talent to build a life on your own terms.
By deferring to the earthy authority of men, you are forfeiting ownership over a part of your soul in exchange for answers, direction, and recognition.