Holly Stewart

Fractional design partner for startups. 👉 | @framer expert

[Holly Stewart @oprylamb]

@cinexistenz Every human being and animal is a different manifestation of the universe expressing itself and interacting with itself.

[The Weaver of Woe™ @weaverofwoe]

There is a specific quality of attention that people feel in the presence of someone who is genuinely curious about them rather than performing curiosity.

Performed curiosity asks questions and waits for its turn to speak. It gathers information without registering it as significant. It produces the feeling of being interviewed rather than known. The other person is technically engaged. The engagement is hollow.

Genuine curiosity listens differently. It follows the thread of what was said rather than moving to the prepared next question. It notices the thing that was almost said and was not. It is interested in the actual person rather than in the process of demonstrating interest in them.

People feel the difference in their bodies before they can name it in their minds. The presence of genuine curiosity is rare enough that it feels startling when encountered.

[ConquerMindsetMoney | Self Mastery @TheConquerMM]

Matthew McConaughey reveals the difference between a nice guy and a good man

"A nice guy gets along. They don't necessarily have discernment or judgment, not sure what they stand for or stand against. It's like yes, yes, yes, sure"

"A good man has ideals that they stand for and they stand against. And when they're tested, a good man is not a nice guy"

"Being a good man is a lot harder for good reason. Not going to be the most popular. Not going to be always the most affable"

"It also doesn't mean you got to be a dick. It just means sometimes you got to go, I believe in this, this is for me, and that is not for me"

"A good man's not looking for trouble. But if it comes, and if something he cares about was trespassed on, a good man does what he can to stop that"

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Tom Green in 2007 explaining to a 39-year old Joe Rogan about podcasts — and how creators can go direct to audience on the internet — on Tom Green’s webshow in Tom Green’s living room while drinking Coronas really was one of the most important moments in modern media history:

[blue @bluewmist]

You need to be slowmaxxing. You need to be reading long, fat books. You need to be making 48-hour chocolate chip cookies. You need to spend hours watching wildlife, you need to spend 15+ min making your coffee. You need to breathe in and breathe out. You need to be slowwwwwwwwww.

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

The ultimate relational pattern to deconstruct.

“Your nervous system will always choose a familiar hell over an unfamiliar heaven.” — Kathy Overman

[ADONIS @adonispara]

Nietzsche describing the mindset of high performers

[David Senra @davidsenra]

Rick Rubin’s House on the Mountain test:

Create according to your own taste, not for applause, critics, algorithms, or market demand.

“Imagine going to live on a mountaintop by yourself, forever. You build a home that no one will ever visit. Still, you invest the time and effort to shape the space in which you’ll spend your days. The wood, the plates, the pillows—all magnificent. Curated to your taste.”

“This is the essence of great art. We create our art so we may inhabit it ourselves.”

“I'm willing to go to extremes to make the thing that I want to inhabit and it's not for anyone else. it's just for me.”

[scott 🌞 @scottdomes]

when you make your life a performance of who you’re supposed to be, and you do it well enough, you probably will impress the people who are impressed by that sort of thing

but since you’re aware it’s a performance - since you’re aware and they’re not - you’ll be less impressed by the FACT that they’re impressed. so their validation means less

so you get caught in this loop of impressing people you don’t really care about impressing and not really impressing the people you ACTUALLY want to impress… who are probably people who primarily value truth & honesty

but since you’re not practicing truth & honesty, you’re even further from impressing the people who matter, which amplifies your need for validation and means you try even harder to perform…

[scott 🌞 @scottdomes]

something I’ve noticed about people living a more fear-based life is that they pay a LOT of attention to the environment

e.g. “I want to start a company doing X but I don’t know if it’s the right time because maybe Y will happen…”

whereas people who are living a more trust-based life are more likely to just follow that desire

but it’s not naivety. it’s not “I know this will work out”. It’s more “there’s something here and I trust that if I follow that, SOMETHING good will come out of it”

the business might fail but I meet the right people for the next one, or get the right skills, etc

fear scatters our attention to everything at once, like a nervous cat looking around the room. trust focuses that attention to “here’s what I want to create”

and then we get a self fulfilling prophecy because someone whose attention & energy are so focused IS more likely to achieve the desired outcome

[anu @anuatluru]

huge difference between someone who just wants to do whatever is high status - and someone who is confident they can make whatever they do high status

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

reminder

[gabriel @gabriel1]

when i voice prompt, i yap for 10 minutes straight and change my mind 3 times in the middle of the yap, and send it without reading

yap enough tokens for the picture to be complete, it understands well when you change your mind in the middle. ai is smarter than you think

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Researchers show that a type of #AI known as a large language model often outperformed physicians at diagnosing complex and potentially life-threatening conditions, including decreased blood flow to the heart, even in the fast-moving stages of real ER care when information is limited.

In early ER cases, the model identified the correct or a very close diagnosis in about 67% of cases, compared with roughly 50% to 55% for physicians. And the technology is only getting better.

Learn more: https://t.co/BwKX8r8BQq

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

“The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.” ​— Margaret Bourke-White

[kalijbanks @kalijbanks1]

Surround yourself with energy that reflects who you are becoming.
Your environment either nourishes your elevation or anchors your stagnation.

[Kevin Yien @kevinyien]

this is the divide

if you’re worried about being replaced, you will be

if you’re excited about doing more (interesting things!), you’re having the time of your life

the hard part? you can’t force it. you can’t tell someone to be excited. they have to discover it for themself.

[blue @bluewmist]

every time you replace “this is hard” with “what’s the first step?” you shift brain activity from your amygdala (fear) to your prefrontal cortex (problem-solving).
that’s neuroplasticity in real time.

[Akshay Kothari @akothari]

One interesting trend over the past year is how quickly vibes complete the full circle. In just the last few months, we’ve done multiple round trips:

- PMs went from “the role is dead” to “we still need PMs” to “PMs might be the most important function.”
- Software engineering went from “AI will wipe out coding jobs” to “new grads can’t get hired” to “software hiring is booming again.”
- SaaS itself went from “software is dying” to SaaSpocalypse to “actually, AI is software too. We are so back!”

[kalijbanks @kalijbanks1]

Love magnifies when judgment diminishes. Each time you release the need to label, fix, or control, you open space for perfection to reveal itself in what already is.