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[Ellis @EllisDTalk]

I mostly retweet things I find interesting or like. But I might also start sharing my own stuff and thoughts.

[Auteur House @auteurhouse]

“Cinema uses your life, not vice versa.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Underrated life advice: At some point, you just have to say to yourself, "I'm better than this," and decide that you've had enough of waiting and start building the life you want.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

A strange thing happens when people inherit comfort.

They forget comfort was built.

When life works, people start treating abundance like the weather. It is just there.

That is how a generation can grow up inside prosperity and still fall for ideas that punish the very economic freedom that made their normal life feel easy.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

The first thing economics teaches you is humility. 

You do not know enough to arrange everyone’s life from an office, and nobody does. 

That is why free people making small decisions usually beat grand plans made far away.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Give children logical explanations, not magical ones.

[✧˖ @colditioner]

Taipei Story 青梅竹馬 (1985) dir. Edward Yang

[Rand @rand_longevity]

the smartest longevity protocol is still really simple

- build muscle
- walk constantly
- sleep properly
- control your blood pressure
- let go of sugar

[Aviation @xAviation]

This might be the craziest F-22 clip I’ve seen so far!

📹: Markfingar

[Jon Pountney @JonPountney1]

More new images from a project in dialogue with the photography of Paul Nash. It's about transience, chronic illness and surreality, and all shot on my Ross Ensign Selfix 820 Special

Aldeburgh and Orford Quay (visited by Nash)

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

The greatest battle of all is with yourself—your weaknesses, your emotions, your lack of resolution in seeing things through to the end. You must declare unceasing war on yourself.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Everything in life can be taken away from you and generally will be at some point.

Your wealth vanishes, the latest gadgetry suddenly becomes passé, your allies desert you.

But if your mind is armed with the art of war, there is no power that can take that away.

In the middle of a crisis, your mind will find its way to the right solution.

Having superior strategies at your fingertips will give your maneuvers irresistible force.

As Sun-tzu says, “Being unconquerable lies with yourself.

[aether @bluewdrift]

You need boredom. A lot of it. Start by going on walks without music. No stimulation. No distractions of any kind. If you learn to sit with your own thoughts, for long enough, in time they will start serving you. You'll start having ideas once again. You'll start developing an extreme sense of clarity that will shift you into the next stage of your life. All by being bored, which is pretty insane.

[Naval @naval]

Except for love, the world is empty.

[Naval @naval]

Existence itself is a miracle - the rest is science.

There is no single meaning to existence - if there were, we’d be slaves to it.

Within existence, there are rules of logic and science. If it was magic, the world would be un-navigable.

Truly the best of all possible worlds.

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

The actual arc of a well-lived life isn’t a march toward “problem-free.” It’s a slow, deliberate migration from imposed problems to selected ones.

From “this happened to me” to “ I signed up for this.”

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

@JGreenCrypto Sorry but I doubt it. It will end with the baby boomers. I’m 45 and I doubt I’ll get one. Find a way to live completely independently from the state.

[aether @bluewdrift]

as i grew older, i learned that the key to surviving the day is not positivity. it's acceptance. accepting that not all days are good and happy. you will have bad days. you make mistakes. you fail. you mess up. everything’s not going to fall into place and that is completely okay

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

The older i get, the more i realize that someone making time for you is one of the clearest signs they care. Everyone is busy. Everyone has responsibilities and their own battles to fight. So when someone consistently chooses to spend their time with you, checks on you, and makes space for you in their life, it means something. time is one thing we can never get back, and people don't give it away lightly.

[aether @bluewdrift]

Major life hack: Don't complain, ever. Nobody likes a complainer. They drain the energy of everyone around them. It's exhausting spending time around someone who constantly complains about things outside their control. If it's within your control, go do something about it. If it's not, you're just wasting energy thinking about it. Complaining gives too much power to the thing. Take back that power.