This is such an important rule. It’s the *birthdays only* rule. The only secret someone should ask you to keep as a small child is a surprise party. You are to immediately tell mom or dad if anyone invokes secrecy from us. That includes siblings, cousins, priests, best friends.
you consume content about people doing the thing instead of doing the thing. their interviews, their processes, their behind the scenes - feels adjacent enough to the actual work that it satisfies the urge temporarily. then you close the video and you’re still exactly where you were, just more informed about how other people moved while you stayed still.
Mayor @ZohranKMamdani: In writing this address, I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less.
I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations. Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed, but never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try.
When asked if Netflix is destroying Hollywood, co-CEO Ted Sarandos said “No, we’re saving Hollywood.”
“We’re in a period of transition. Folks grew up thinking, ‘I want to make movies on a gigantic screen and have strangers watch them [and to have them] play in the theater for two months and people cry and sold-out shows … It’s an outdated concept.”
(https://t.co/RgoWwJUX70)
Hobbies keep you from relying on people for external validation. It also fills those gaps in when you’re more susceptible to doing pointless things with others out of boredom. That’s why they’re so important
what people don’t realize is that to write is to think. by outsourcing your writing you are outsourcing your thinking. you are paying for the degradation of your own mind. don’t use AI to “structure” your thoughts. structure them yourself. a shortcut to nowhere
you keep looking for meaning in your job when your job is just how you pay for the time to find meaning elsewhere. but you’ve been spending the elsewhere time on nothing, so the job became the everything, and now everything feels meaningless.
life will feel different when you stop running from the parts of you that actually want something. the ideas you keep shelving. the dreams you only visit in your head.
use the time you have to chase them. build something. write something. create something.
anything.