People who have travelled a lot tend to judge less. Not because they became nicer, but because they ve seen too many versions of what's "normal." In one country, it's normal to eat with your hands. In another, it's normal to stay quiet at the table. In third, it's normal to hug a stranger. When you've seen 30 different versions of "the right way," you stop believing yours is the only one. Travel doesn't just teach geography. It teaches tolerance
Rick Rubin says he can spend a whole week in the studio and make nothing good.
He's chasing one thing, the moment something magical appears.
For hours it isn't there.
The band tries a take, then another, then another.
Nothing happens.
Then suddenly it does, and it feels conjured, like it arrived on its own.
"You can work in the studio for a day or for a week and nothing good can happen."
He compares it to fishing.
You can sit out all day and catch nothing.
He's patient enough to wait forever for it.
The waiting isn't fun, and he's honest about that.
But when the magic finally bites, that is the whole reason he keeps showing up.
— Rick Rubin (.@RickRubin) on David Senra's (.@davidsenra) podcast.
Rick Rubin's House on the Mountain test:
Create according to your own taste, not for applause, critics, algorithms, or market demand.
"Imagine going to live on a mountaintop by yourself, forever. You build a home that no one will ever visit. Still, you invest the time and effort to shape the space in which you'll spend your days. The wood, the plates, the pillows—all magnificent. Curated to your taste."
"This is the essence of great art. We create our art so we may inhabit it ourselves."
"I'm willing to go to extremes to make the thing that I want to inhabit and it's not for anyone else. it's just for me."
Michael Jordan finally puts the endless debate about who the greatest basketball player of all time is to rest.
"Is there room for more than one goat in basketball? There's no such thing as a goat you know to me."
"To me it's only because I think we learn from other athletes we progress the game."
"To say that one is better than the other is not really right."
Michael Jordan gets completely honest with Stephen Curry about why he's so obsessed with golf.
"I kind of got into golf uh mainly because from a competitive standpoint to me it is the hardest game to play absolutely."
"I can always respond to an opponent a defensive guy offensive guy whatever but in golf it's like playing in a mirror and you battling yourself consistently to try to get Perfection."
"For a competitive person like me this is what keeps me sane you know because when I walk away from the game of basketball... that was enough to keep my competitive juices working."
A SoCal family is distraught after a San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy entered their backyard without a warrant and killed one of the family dogs. The incident was caught on surveillance video. Full story: https://t.co/SEZUCEQ9PO
I showed my 14 year old daughter this amazing chart illustrating the progression of best-selling musical artists during the 1970s and 80s, so that she would get some sense of how insane Michael Jackson’s run during the 1980s was.
And now in 2026 he’s back near the top again…😱
At the 2003 Critics’ Choice Awards, Jack Nicholson won an award but confessed he was too drunk to make it to the stage. Instead, he enlisted Robin Williams to accept on his behalf, leading to one of the funniest and most memorable acceptance speeches of the evening.
@XivTroy While that in turn becomes its own social contract, it’s one that can be entered with a sense of peace knowing that each individual respects the other.
@XivTroy I too don’t know about high iq but this process you describe is essential. I myself use this process to find and make connections with other like minded individuals and enrich our own individual agencies by validating each other without that compromise