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[Luke @LukeSallmen]

I wrote a dating doc! Read, send to your friends, and signal boost to help me find my future wife. Link in reply

[Luke @LukeSallmen]

No man smokes the same cigarette twice

[Meesh Hell @waziot]

Overheard at the bar last night:

“hey can I borrow a cigarette?

are you gonna give it back?

yes but it’ll be forever changed”

[Luke @LukeSallmen]

vanoosa substack era begins! it’s a good poast

[vanoosa @vanoooosa]

my first blog post! in which i use all my PTO on meditation retreats and learn a few things along the way

[Luke @LukeSallmen]

@NathanpmYoung any takes on going to LessOnline v going to Manifest?

[Luke @LukeSallmen]

@kasratweets down - superlatives for each of the types - most fun hottest freest best conversations

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reminds me of one of the tumblr all-timers

[Isabel🌻 @isabelunraveled]

I keep thinking about this! It’s just wonderful

[Luke @LukeSallmen]

@seanta___ perhaps give her a little kiss

[Isabel🌻 @isabelunraveled]

So much of what is said about romantic love on this site is so ineffably corrupt and wrong, I almost don’t even want to touch the subject because of how off base the discourse is. I have so much to say. But above all, I’ll say: that true love is not what most of you think it is. It is a return to innocence in each other’s arms, repeatedly. It is feeling safe to be seen in your extreme rawness, in front of someone you trust to hold you there, and love you there, and heal you there. All of this stuff about “high value” this and communication hacks that and even the endless attachment style dialogue … it’s all so missing the point. SO missing the point. The person you love should feel like a still, safe home amidst an unpredictable, chaotic, stimulating world. It should feel like permission to be who you have always been, who you were as a child. Feeling so safe, so held, that you can finally feel all of the things you never let yourself feel when you were protecting yourself, defending yourself, adapting to this intense and unrelenting world on the way to adulthood. In the space of true love, you meet yourself fully. You literally become the most honest and pure version of yourself. Because it’s finally safe to be who you are.

If you have that, if you *really* have that, and you have a shared vision of the future, generally desiring the same kind of life, you can figure the rest out. You really can. Everything else is just a puzzle that you get to ENJOY solving together. Because being together is fun. It’s easy. It’s free. It’s everything that you truly, genuinely want to experience in the presence of another person.

Stop looking for some checklist and start noticing the person who makes you feel at EASE. Still, safe, and present. Who makes your body soften, your breath slow down, and who lets you finally feel truly seen, and loved, in what they see. THAT is what you are looking for. Not some status symbol or pre-constructed avatar that you built in your mind of what love should look like.

[Gena Gorlin @Gena_I_Gorlin]

If you want to know the real meaning of work, read Frederick Douglass's account of his first time working as a free man.

After escaping slavery, his first job was loading coal onto ships. It was new, hard, dirty work.

Here's how he describes it:

[Luke @LukeSallmen]

@nadiainthought @ajeya_cotra @RyanPGreenblatt @bshlgrs @METR_Evals @EpochAIResearch, @TomDavidsonX @AISecurityInst safety work directly from labs via @GoogleDeepMind, @Anthropic, @OpenAI

[Luke @LukeSallmen]

@rikardhjort ah I see someone already shared this below, +1 to their comment.

[Luke @LukeSallmen]

@rikardhjort Jeff Nippard's video on different bf percentages says that 10% is somewhere between advanced and elite - quite hard to maintain for most guys, requires serious dieting and training. This is the definitive resource for me on how different bfs look and feel https://t.co/pji0Q0Q34k

[Luke @LukeSallmen]

I feel kinda gleeful about this news because somehow I believe they’re going to win. It feels so David and Goliath

[roon @tszzl]

amanda askell is among the best people in the world one could ask for to be an auteur of the Claude models. it is instantly clear upon meeting her that she has more nobility in her worst moment than all her detractors at their best. it’s great to have worthy opps

[Luke @LukeSallmen]

@tautologer https://t.co/ifjJgX2UZQ

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@tautologer https://t.co/9ysWRLmHvn

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@tautologer https://t.co/PAF1avDeis

[Luke @LukeSallmen]

this is the enneagram

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

If you want the masterclass for making friends with men, learn all about their One Big Interest, and then figure out what the fears, needs, and dreams are that drive it, and ask about those.

He will pledge you his life, his fortune and his sacred honor.

[Luke @LukeSallmen]

@FractalAuth @appleMechanic can confirm, I personally heard him say this

[Luke @LukeSallmen]

if this is actually alpha, it’s a wild move to give it away to the world for free

[Chris Lakin @chrislakin]

@johngfriedman isn't this worth millions of dollars why are you posting this

[Luke @LukeSallmen]

@mr_samosaman as a Steelers fan, we are now sworn enemies