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  • Surrender as a non-stupid life strategy

    The proper end of introspection is not being filled with facts about oneself. Your introspection is successful if it is finite, if it leads you towards direct contact with experience. Get out of the way of your becoming. — Read on sashachapin.substack.com/p/should-you-be-in-charge-of-your-life

  • They Killed Normal and Called It Progress

    What we stopped making is the middle, the common culture you could just walk into without curating your identity first. We optimized it out of existence and called it progress. ….Have you noticed that the middle is gone from everything? Restaurants, companies, careers, music, retail, the economy itself. What replaced it is a barbell: one…

  • Worry less, do more

    Social media, by allowing people to post ideas that are unmediated by any editorial planning process, brings forth whole modes of engagement with political ideas that I think simply could not exist in a world of rigorous journalistic feedback. Ways to fix this problem are: Political parties kicking out toxic members, using AI to reword…

  • Obvious advice

    Before carrying out any plan, actually do the obvious things. When you’re about to make a big decision, pause, and ask yourself what obvious things a reasonable person would do before making this sort of decision. Would they spend a full five minutes (by the clock) brainstorming alternative options before settling on a decision? Would they…