@OwenBenjamin 80% of it is just the same instinct that tells you not to make contact with the insane person on the train cart & move to the next cart asap…
@MOMDIEDBCOFCLJ@Be_like_legend Television, internet, large cities, food coloring & probably preservatives too. It’s a necessarily evolution to adopt to technology & over population. Maybe.
@FinancialPhys They believe they are safe with a cohort that doesn’t comprehend the concept that one does not shit where they eat ~ they’re slowly coming to the realization that it also entails that they must also live in shit.
The people who will matter most in your life arrive without spectacle, just quiet steady unremarkable souls who simply refused to leave when everything got ugly, who kept showing up with their plain boring dependable faces when the brilliant ones, those luminous magnetic captivating creatures who lit up every room they blessed with their dazzling exhausting presence, they were the first to disappear and it will take you years to understand that God sent the flashy ones to wake you up and the quiet ones to keep you alive
The biggest mistake investors make is abandoning their process because someone else claims they are making more money.
You do not know their risk. You do not know their sizing. You do not know what they are hiding.
Stick to your process.
Control the downside.
If the risk is right, the upside usually takes care of itself.
I am begging the internet to stop showing me "5-to-9 morning routines" where someone drinks structured water, journals for an hour, and ice plunges before sunrise.
My morning routine is hitting snooze until the fear of homelessness physically drags me out of bed. That’s it. That’s the routine.
So much of design comes from noticing things most people walk past: how a door handle invites or resists your hand, why one sign is instantly readable and another isn’t, the rhythm of a well set paragraph.
To be great, you have to keep seeing what everyone else has stopped looking at.