Month: May 2019
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How to build a castle in clouds – nihilism, existential crisis, and the cycle of meaning
The concept of a midlife crisis was always weird to me. Why wait until you’re middle age to question the choices you’ve made? I’ve had all the symptoms of a midlife crisis at least once a year since I was 25. The cycle seems to have accelerated recently, and now only takes about 3-4 months […]
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Strawberry jelly
What On Earth Was I thinking When I chose to Communicate In words They only obscure An already Cloudy matter Now words lost their meanings Meanings lost meanings Nothing means anything Anymore We’re wrestling in Strawberry jelly Of interpretations
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Positive visions
Your success in the world rests largely on your ability to create compelling, positive visions of the future that others feel irresistibly drawn to be part of. Adam Robinson on The Tim Ferriss Show
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Castles in clouds
Our castles Are not even built on sand They’re floating up in the clouds Of interstellar dust Please Leave your magnificent chambers And join me on the rooftop tonight We’re gonna get hopelessly dizzy Staring at billions of suns
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Science can’t tell you what is worth doing. And that’s probably okay.
I used to be the kind of a person who is obsessed with science, evidence, and facts. I thought that if we follow evidence wherever it leads, we’ll have all our questions answered. I thought that nearly all problems are due to insufficient education. If only we can teach everyone about how science works and […]
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Let’s dance
I’m staying with my parents right now. I don’t get to see them too often. In fact, I’m more often abroad than here. I know this because my dad collects coffee mugs and I bring him one from every country I go to. More often than not, I bring him two or three such mugs […]
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The day before
The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea. Peter Diamandis
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All is high
I took a sneak peek Through unraveling fabric Of spacetime Found myself On the backstage Of a grand perennial play Soap bubble universes Snap in and out Of existence Planets dance To the sound Of temple bowls All is high on Clouds of incense smoke And being alive
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I wish this was over
This thought occasionally crosses my mind when I’m stretched out in an uncomfortable and challenging yoga pose. It lasts for about a second, until the absurdity dawns on me. This weird, uncomfortable, and challenging stretch is the whole purpose of doing yoga. There’s no end goal in it, doing the thing itself is the end […]
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Real freedom
Fake freedom requires the world to conform to your will. Real freedom requires nothing of the world. It is your will. — Mark Manson, Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope Mark Manson’s new book is out. I’ll write more about it on a different occasion. For now I’ll just say, if you’re wondering why […]
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