In 2023, Stanford professor Graham Weaver gave his last lecture on how to destroy fear & live a wildly ambitious life.
His frameworks:
- Suffering is inevitable
- Signup for "10 years" test
- "Not me" & "Not now" traps
13 lessons on how to build an asymmetric life:
This is hardly a hot take but we also owe this album so much. It’s so foundational to what we know as post hardcore that in 2026 it sounds almost unremarkable to the untrained ear because everything that’s come since then is simply copying.
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One of my best friends is making > $500K, works fully remote, being a passport bro living in Argentina/Columbia/Rio and uses chat GPT for his whole job.
He’s a high up VP and works ~ 1-2 hours a week on his job while pursuing his other true passions (women).
As a psychologist, we're not ethically allowed to do this research as its against the TOS of the apps. But a core part of my psychotherapy work with men trying to escape the manosphere mentality has been to consider the negatives of the apps from *both sides* and to try to shift away from them. I'm grateful to @MurrayHillGuy1 for providing the data and insight. It will be really useful in these conversations.
This was a very influential list for me, partly cause a local station was using Kurt’s birthday weekend to play selections from it. We were driving up to Yosemite with my dad and grandfather and I can remember winding around those snowy roads listening to it.
In his journals, Kurt Cobain listed his 50 favorite albums. His taste? Immaculate. But there's one glaringly odd pick.
The lone Nirvana album is... Green? R.E.M.'s very uneven 1988 LP, objectively the most disappointing record they'd put out to date. Why?
I have three theories