There’s lots to learn from Iranian mid-rise housing!
6-storey apartments in Isfahan, Iran, by Soo Architects
- The right balance of windows + shade
- Recessed balconies
- Simple, but beautifully detailed
Disagreeableness has become the most important psychological trait. Everyday there is propaganda to ignore, psyops to reject, perversities to stay out of. The skill and speed with which you say "no" will determine how far you go
The complete absence of critical thinking in Indian society is a matter of grave concern.
Why can’t people think beyond what is told to them? Does this reflect the limitations of our education system?
“Don’t attack other innocents because innocents were attacked” is a simple, morally clear principle. And yet, in moments like this, so many people react as if it’s outrageous, blinded by an incessant need for retaliation, no matter how unjust. That’s not strength, it’s weakness.
the majority’s way of regulating a minority is kind of paradoxical—you ghettoise them into one enclave, and then you are fearful of that enclave too. domination and fear go together somehow in this arrangement.
Only measure of your intelligence is the size of the fuckups you can endure. Nature didn’t bestow you all the clockspeed in your head so you go around trying to build bridges and solve math problems.
Too many dudes think their brain is to hold onto. The opposite. It’s to shed. To be expended. Your mind should convert into a spirit over time. At some point it should be all brain fog and 0 thoughts and everything should magically fall into their places. That’s when you know you have completed the conversion.
Now you’re guided by the spirit.