seriouslyyyyy, bruhh the cubicle culture is gone
everyone today works at this big, ugly fuckin hall sat next to each other like having fucking table meals
NYC is in a smoke-storm collision, West Hollywood’s been swallowed by a sinkhole on Sunset, and the Taco Bell diarrhea epidemic has paralyzed the nation, who seek solace in America’s latest mascot: Jimothy the cryptid raccoon. We’re not in reality. This is a Gregg Araki movie.
i think this essay gets at why some people seem capable of operating at 10x productivity without looking particularly stressed or disciplined. from the outside, it can seem like they possess some superhuman work ethic, but often they’re simply experiencing far less resistance
everything feels effortful when you’re moving against yourself. everything feels effortless when you’re moving with yourself. this is because motion can be generative. movement begets more movement. we were built to move, make things, follow our curiosity, and rest when needed - the ground state is sustainable motion. the goal is finding the pace and direction where doing feels as natural as being
climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live, until you're the one living it
Don’t be shocked when fascism uses homoeroticism to nation build. It’s effective and 99% of men’s whole lives revolve around other men. Straight and gay.
The most attractive human trait is energy. Full stop.
You'd think it was looks or status, but your nervous system reads deeper. It's called neuroception, the body's pre-conscious scan for enthusiasm, curiosity, and safety. Want to become a magnet for exceptional people? Focus on your energy. Embody the kind you want to attract.
Every humiliation you are currently avoiding will be completely irrelevant in three years. The life you failed to build because you were avoiding it will not be.
This is the trade most people are making without ever consciously agreeing to the terms. They are exchanging the temporary discomfort of being seen trying, failing, looking foolish, getting it wrong publicly — for the permanent weight of a life that stayed smaller than it was supposed to be because the embarrassment tax felt too high to pay.
The math only looks reasonable in the short term. Embarrassment is loud and immediate and social and hits every threat-detection system the nervous system has. Wasted potential is quiet and cumulative and private and produces a specific grief that doesn't arrive until late enough that most people mistake it for aging rather than recognizing it as the compound interest on years of playing it safe.
Regret studies are unanimous on this. People in the final chapters of their lives do not lie awake replaying their embarrassments. They lie awake in the specific silence of the things they never attempted. The person they never became because becoming them required being bad at it publicly first.
The embarrassment was never the real risk. It just had better marketing.
This is free advice from an expensive psychologist.
If you're an anxious person, do everything for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Anxiety feeds on importance. Don't make everything a matter of life and death.
Socially smart people often won’t tell you to your face when they disagree with you because they can sense intuitively that you are too attached to the outcome of the interaction and that you couldn’t handle disagreement. So they will just agree with you… but then you might not hear from them again.
It’s easy to assume this is “fake” when really it’s just what intelligent people do to protect their energy. If you went around saying what you really thought all of the time you’d make way too many enemies, and get in way too many unproductive arguments (cortisol spikes = aging)
Of course the only way to make genuine connections is to say what you really think… but especially if you intend to be deeply involved in society, you must train your intuition to know who can take it.