Will

"If you don’t get it here, you won’t get it anywhere, and the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life." - Joseph Campbell

[Will @anactofwill]

Here's to 2023.

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"I, and I alone, am responsible for everything I think and feel."

@naval

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It feels like the craftsmanship is gone. Web design was my little niche of quality and craftsmanship. Defending UX and validate the CRO, but it still felt that it was an art form. Now its just so fast to iterate and to test, I'm watching things get pumped out faster than I could make one.

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If you support inclusion and are a Christian is that contradictory?

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@iiiitsandrea Now with Creatine. (if isn't not Creative + Protein) I call it a missed opportunity.

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

The motherhood experience is universal.

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@jposhaughnessy @LibertyRPF

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@pmarca

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@jposhaughnessy @JeffreyHoppe @G_S_Bhogal

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Analogy for so many things.

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

Next time he is going to learn how to use a stone

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@depressionlesss My cat would scratch my eyes out if I did that.

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@MindBranches Love to see people using mind maps.

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@Vox_Oculi

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This paragraph by Richard Feynman hits so hard:

“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn’t stop you from doing anything at all.”

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

Under appreciated

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Naval Ravikant: "You're going to die. It's all going to zero. What's there to stress about?"

"Stress is when your mind has two conflicting desires at once. You want to be liked, but you want to do something selfish. You don't want to go to work, but you want to make money. You have two conflicting desires, and that's stress."

Naval explains the difference between stress and anxiety:

"Anxiety is this pervasive, unidentifiable stress where you're stressed out all the time and you're not even sure why. The reason is you have so many unresolved problems that have piled up in your life, you can no longer identify what the problems are. There's this mountain of garbage in your mind. A little bit is poking out the top like an iceberg; that's anxiety. But underneath, there's a lot of unresolved things."

He shares his personal anxiety resolver:

"One big anxiety resolver for me is just ruminating on death. You're going to die. It's all going to zero. You cannot take anything with you. If you can keep that idea in front of you at all times, what's there to stress about?"

Naval reframes what "wasted time" really means:

"What is wasted time? Everything is wasted time in a sense because nothing matters in the ultimate. But in each moment, it's the only thing that matters. So if you're doing something you want to do and you're fully there for it it's not wasted time. If your mind is running away, wishing you were somewhere else, anticipating the future, regretting the past, that's wasted time. That's time you're not present for."

He concludes:

"People get worried about dying and no longer being here. But they don't realize that so much of their life is spent not being here in any case."

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@RaminNasibov

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@DavidWolfe Very good question.

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@pmarca https://t.co/AVNkrsNzYJ

[Mike Matas @mike_matas]

Jony explaining the thinking and founding ideas that shaped the Ferrari Luce interior.

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@wesleycrossnyc @bryan_johnson Respectfully, we are capable of seeing beauty in just about anything if we look for it. Our backyard can contain as much awe and wonder as the Grand Canyon.

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@DavidWolfe

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@Whotfismick what's the equivalent of a "tweet" from X now?