Seeds
Stream of consciousness from Arena
honour the weight of the medal
Mar 3, 2026 · 5:22PModa eiichiro is that guy
Mar 3, 2026 · 2:19PMi do not want to be bogged down by yesterday i want to be dragged forward into tomorrow
Mar 2, 2026 · 4:32PMyou need to remind yourself that you are very capable of doing very hard things
Mar 2, 2026 · 2:25PMwe have so much more life to live and so many things to make
Mar 2, 2026 · 12:51AMbe honest to yourself, explore the world through the questions that come to your mind, paint the picture that you are seeing
Mar 1, 2026 · 10:48PMconviction -> despair -> conviction -> despair ->
Mar 1, 2026 · 10:20PMremember to make things
Mar 1, 2026 · 10:20PMthe hero's journey
Mar 1, 2026 · 10:19PM"unemployed single vietnamese man"
Mar 1, 2026 · 8:19PMgameboy advanced
Mar 1, 2026 · 7:37PMnirvana the band the movie the show was really fun and inspiring to watch, it feels like there's a cinematic lens that's been applied over my view of the city and the streets that i would otherwise walk normally
Mar 1, 2026 · 5:14PMhakka food inside of a pita wrap
Mar 1, 2026 · 5:10PM"game" + "boy" earrings
Mar 1, 2026 · 5:10PMpatterns in grids
Mar 1, 2026 · 4:25PMstop cheapening yourself
Feb 28, 2026 · 4:10AMdon't be in such a rush to disappear
Feb 28, 2026 · 4:10AMsimple ingredients, big flavour
Feb 27, 2026 · 12:16AMabandoning the self is hard
Feb 26, 2026 · 9:16PMi'm making sounds with my mouth i got a glock in my rari
Feb 26, 2026 · 7:11PMa calming love
Feb 25, 2026 · 5:55AMpride
Feb 25, 2026 · 4:53AMinwards
Feb 23, 2026 · 6:29PMeverything you gain in life will rot and fall apart
Feb 23, 2026 · 9:42AMhow will you serve the world?
Feb 23, 2026 · 9:41AMfreedom from concern
Feb 23, 2026 · 9:40AMvisual tricks
Feb 22, 2026 · 8:02PMenvironment informs the self informs the environment informs the
Feb 21, 2026 · 10:51PM“When people say they’re ‘bad at money,’ they’re talking about the fact that money ends up doing emotional labor it was never designed to do. When life feels repetitive, unchanging, emotionally flat, spending can create the sensation that something has changed, even if nothing meaningful actually has. Most purchases aren’t just purchases, they’re small identity repairs. They allow you to momentarily become the ideal version of yourself, without having to do the uncomfortable work of actually building that life. And in a culture that constantly tells you who you should be, what you should look like, how your life should be progressing by now, spending becomes one of the fastest ways to temporarily feel aligned with that story.”
Feb 21, 2026 · 5:54PMi really think it's worth striving to be devoured by it all
Feb 21, 2026 · 3:27AMand that's a note too, that it's really not about winning or losing just being as honest and as human as you can possibly be, in the least harmful ways you can possibly be, in the most curious ways you can possibly be
Feb 21, 2026 · 3:22AMi'm willing to surrender if the outcome of loss turns out to be more enriching than the outcome of victory
Feb 21, 2026 · 3:21AMwhat impresses me the most is those who have persevered and fought to maintain their own worlds, however large or small
Feb 21, 2026 · 3:19AMi have too much love to be confined to the defaults of this game
Feb 21, 2026 · 3:14AM“To find a new world, maybe you have to have lost one. Maybe you have to be lost. The dance of renewal, the dance that made world, was always danced here at the edge of things, on the brink, on the foggy coast.” ― Ursula K Le Guin
Feb 20, 2026 · 10:23PMsometimes the best way to help yourself is to help another
Feb 20, 2026 · 11:28AMi’m good for a slow burn
Feb 19, 2026 · 11:30PMrich in life, rich in depth, rich in curiosity, rich with ambition, rich with courage
Feb 19, 2026 · 10:42PMfan the flames
Feb 19, 2026 · 3:33PMa battle of ideals
Feb 19, 2026 · 12:53AMstraight off that vespene gas
Feb 18, 2026 · 2:43PMworldbreaker
Feb 18, 2026 · 1:12AMdo things that make people feel less alone
Feb 18, 2026 · 12:48AMthink lightly of yourself and deeply of the world
Feb 18, 2026 · 12:28AMi think i need to disappear
Feb 18, 2026 · 12:27AMto be devoured
Feb 17, 2026 · 9:55PMwhen all is laid to rest, what was built will stand, not as a testament to what was endured, but as proof that something true was pursued regardless of the cost
Feb 17, 2026 · 7:42PMgot my fighting spirit from my mom
Feb 17, 2026 · 6:46PMrebellion
Feb 17, 2026 · 12:52AMit's also one of the most beautiful things
Feb 17, 2026 · 12:37AMone of the ugly things about being here is that it is so easy to shapeshift into what the world believes you to be
Feb 17, 2026 · 12:36AMrefusal to fit the mold
Feb 16, 2026 · 11:57PMblade is too dull
Feb 16, 2026 · 10:06PMrock living
Feb 16, 2026 · 9:50PMbecome a sword for those you love
Feb 16, 2026 · 4:58PMdo not disrespect yourself
Feb 16, 2026 · 2:00PMdo not mistake the capacity of your love for the capacity of mine
Feb 16, 2026 · 11:24AMTo conduct the orchestra you must turn your back on the crowd
Sep 19, 2025 · 10:48PMtake him to space
Feb 16, 2026 · 12:30AMi like what i like
Feb 15, 2026 · 12:27PMalways day dreaming
Feb 15, 2026 · 11:52AMif we are what we believe, then what is worth believing ourselves into?
Feb 15, 2026 · 12:18AMdo something a little stupid, really kind, just for fun, more often
Feb 13, 2026 · 12:19PMi’m afraid to admit i have fallen in love with figuring it out
Feb 13, 2026 · 1:10AMclimb strong climb hard
Feb 12, 2026 · 6:26PMnew baselines new thresholds
Feb 12, 2026 · 5:19PMwhat is your source of truth?
Feb 12, 2026 · 2:57PMlook deeply enough anywhere and you'll always find yourself
Feb 12, 2026 · 12:33AMi fall in love everyday
Feb 12, 2026 · 12:32AMmolded, molding
Feb 11, 2026 · 3:02PMre imagine yourself
Feb 11, 2026 · 2:51PMan overflowing stream
Feb 11, 2026 · 2:51PMa lot of the beauty is in the fact that it could go wrong
Feb 11, 2026 · 1:21AMskill expression
Feb 10, 2026 · 9:03PMThere’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old. Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding. You don’t ever let go of the thread.
Feb 10, 2026 · 11:19AM“The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.”
Feb 9, 2026 · 11:46PMcontrol, restraint, breath
Feb 9, 2026 · 9:01PMall we seek is to build a world we can drown ourselves in
Feb 9, 2026 · 8:43PMbuild a beautiful, resilient, strong, immersive, obsessive world
Feb 9, 2026 · 5:04PMwhat are you carrying all that weight around for
Feb 8, 2026 · 10:55AMblending
Feb 8, 2026 · 4:26AMwe can't escape the vortex, but we can at least try to understand it
Feb 7, 2026 · 6:41PMthe abandonment of empathy is where evil grows
Feb 7, 2026 · 6:41PMfull extent of the human experience
Feb 7, 2026 · 6:40PMnaivety is a superpower
Feb 7, 2026 · 6:40PMgift culture
Feb 7, 2026 · 6:40PMget on the roof
Feb 7, 2026 · 6:40PMyour information environment shapes your identity
Feb 7, 2026 · 6:39PMinter-view. - early 16th century (formerly also as enterview ): from French entrevue, from s'entrevoir ‘see each other’, from voir ‘to see’, on the pattern of vue ‘a view’.
Feb 7, 2026 · 6:01PMlet dreamers dream
Feb 7, 2026 · 4:42PMi only see movement
Feb 7, 2026 · 4:36PMmovement technology
Feb 7, 2026 · 4:35PMat the same time, do not disrespect those who have paved the way ahead of you
Feb 7, 2026 · 3:20PMdon't live to follow in footsteps
Feb 7, 2026 · 3:20PM“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
Feb 7, 2026 · 3:10PMi need to bad bunny about this
Feb 6, 2026 · 11:21PMi can more easily trust in someone's ability to be directionally correct if they change their mind often
Feb 6, 2026 · 9:45PMperformance as a way of life life as a way of performance
Feb 6, 2026 · 7:14PMunderexplain overdeliver
Feb 6, 2026 · 6:52PMcatching whales
Feb 6, 2026 · 5:36PMit's not that kindness is free, it's just that is infinitely more valuable
Feb 6, 2026 · 5:31PMkeep your head afloat
Feb 6, 2026 · 4:15PMstay ahead of the curve
Feb 6, 2026 · 4:15PMGRANITE DREAMS
Feb 6, 2026 · 4:09PMi think the world is finding us more than we are finding it
Feb 6, 2026 · 1:31AMknow oneself
Feb 5, 2026 · 9:43PMwhat a fucking beauty it is, to struggle
Feb 5, 2026 · 8:31PMi write every email like it's my last
Feb 5, 2026 · 3:07PMpull your weight
Feb 5, 2026 · 12:42PMlook closer and shapes start to appear
Feb 4, 2026 · 9:51PMplay dtmf at my funeral
Feb 4, 2026 · 6:36PMorange tabby cat
Feb 4, 2026 · 6:31PMknow your place
Feb 3, 2026 · 5:30PMa visual diary
Feb 2, 2026 · 5:04PM死んで生きる shinde ikiru to die and live
Feb 1, 2026 · 11:19PMi don't quite buy that we were put here just to be comfortable
Feb 1, 2026 · 8:19PMemail more
Feb 1, 2026 · 5:04PMan archetype is a pattern
Feb 1, 2026 · 12:13AMlet's do less, really fucking good
Jan 31, 2026 · 10:34PMwe underestimate how serious we could ever possibly get about living this life to its fullest extent, bearing all of the hardship as well as the beauty that comes with it
Jan 31, 2026 · 10:29PMservant of earth
Jan 31, 2026 · 10:28PMone does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore
Jan 29, 2026 · 8:11PMi find myself reliving this lesson over and over again
Jan 28, 2026 · 2:21PMobserver
Jan 28, 2026 · 12:20PMlife can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards
Jan 21, 2026 · 11:46PMhey were you okay today? how could you be okay? right? life isn't easy, right? but what are you going to do? we have to survive somehow! let's have a soju party with the hyungs today. okay? i won't give you any extras. it's okay to get drunk when you eat with the hyungs. let's just cut the breaks and eat.
Jan 27, 2026 · 11:25PMover coffee with my mom this morning: “sometimes we hesitate to invite people into our life because we feel like our space isn’t good enough yet. things are a little messy, or our place settings don’t match, or our situation isn’t quite what we want it to be. don’t let that stop you. invite people in anyway.”
Oct 8, 2020 · 5:04PMthis is your path and you will pursue it with excellence. you face your fear because your goal demands it, that is the warrior spirit
Jan 27, 2026 · 12:57AMfree solo
Jan 27, 2026 · 12:42AMsometimes you just gotta put the baby in the backpack and attach it to an independent harness system and remember that it'll be alright
Jan 25, 2026 · 11:34PM天地人 tian di ren heaven, earth, humanity
Jan 25, 2026 · 5:28PMi'm falling deeper in love with life as every day passes by
Jan 25, 2026 · 5:06PMrich in spirit
Jan 25, 2026 · 5:05PMwhere does it go
Jan 25, 2026 · 2:47PMit would be a shame if we lived a cowardly life, hiding and sneaking away, deceiving and optimizing to benefit at the expense of others, to look at everything beautiful and say "what can i gain from this?"
Jan 22, 2026 · 11:27PMif the stars align
Jan 22, 2026 · 4:56PMrelease the tension between your eyes, smile
Jan 22, 2026 · 11:44AMi sat in the back of this car today on my way to work and the sun was shining on my face as we drove between buildings
Jan 22, 2026 · 10:38AMshopping grid but just displays things your loved ones want
Jan 21, 2026 · 11:36PMnostalgia is a reaction to change
Jan 21, 2026 · 11:19PMpatch notes
Jan 21, 2026 · 10:39PMthe lost art of audio notes
Jan 21, 2026 · 6:02PMshare the laughter
Jan 21, 2026 · 10:12AMlet’s eat well today
Jan 21, 2026 · 9:47AMeverything you put out into the world is a brick
Jan 20, 2026 · 9:41AMso brave
Jan 20, 2026 · 8:21AMto be consumed and to know nothing else!
Jan 19, 2026 · 11:23PMa challenge is a gift
Jan 18, 2026 · 7:28PMthe greatest gift we can give to the world is to simply hold ourselves to a higher standard.
Jan 18, 2026 · 2:39PMit’s nice to see you :)
Jan 18, 2026 · 12:47PMpolice man said, "son you can't stay here"
Jan 17, 2026 · 12:22AMlow resolution high resolution
Jan 16, 2026 · 10:53AMfuck i'm having too much fun
Jan 16, 2026 · 3:44AMi'm trying my heckin best
Jan 15, 2026 · 7:56PMi am so grateful to be alive
Jan 15, 2026 · 7:00PMon the house
Jan 14, 2026 · 2:35PMchef special
Jan 14, 2026 · 2:35PMiced coffee in a paper cup
Jan 12, 2026 · 10:38PMcon artist
Jan 12, 2026 · 9:28PMrock problems
Jan 11, 2026 · 10:50AMeven if the heavens abandon us, we still have each other
Jan 11, 2026 · 10:30AMsoup so on the mind we got the bowl cut
Jan 10, 2026 · 4:41PMlive & live
Jan 10, 2026 · 1:29PMwe don't know who discovered water but we know it wasn't a fish
Jan 9, 2026 · 9:34PMfor honour
Jan 8, 2026 · 1:23PMi wonder what tomorrow will bring
Jan 8, 2026 · 12:11AMeveryday is an opportunity to claim who you are
Jan 7, 2026 · 9:16AMsee also,
Jan 6, 2026 · 2:07PM天
Jan 5, 2026 · 9:27PM米
Jan 5, 2026 · 9:26PMhonesty and discipline affords the most productive forms of fun
Jan 5, 2026 · 7:50PMone wise decision after another
Jan 5, 2026 · 7:25PMpower in non-attachment
Jan 4, 2026 · 5:06PMthe heavens will no longer be patient.
Jan 4, 2026 · 1:32PMtheir beauty is a gift from heaven
Jan 4, 2026 · 11:06AMwho can i be today?
Jan 4, 2026 · 9:11AMyou can expand the world by doing less
Jan 4, 2026 · 1:31AMwe must not drink at the base of the mountain
Jan 3, 2026 · 9:44PMbring honour to this house
Jan 3, 2026 · 8:47PMyou will move towards whatever goal post you have in sight, therefore it is important to have any goal post at all
Jan 3, 2026 · 8:43PMyou must remember what you were taught
Jan 3, 2026 · 8:32PMthe light in you will see the light in me
Jan 2, 2026 · 11:42PMconsistent wise decisions will earn us the victory
Jan 2, 2026 · 10:15PMsomething like that
Jan 2, 2026 · 11:52AMa lot of it is just realizing you are both so small in comparison to everything the universe has to offer and so much bigger in life than you think you actually are if this is all fleeting and nothing lasts then why not?
Jan 2, 2026 · 3:50AMa fear of being too much there, a fear of not knowing enough there, and you live a whole life never knowing what's on the other side
Jan 2, 2026 · 12:38AMit's deeply personal, to know someone's camera roll
Jan 1, 2026 · 11:09PMyou'd be surprised
Jan 1, 2026 · 4:22PMonce in a while, the special thing comes along
Dec 31, 2025 · 7:53PMgrowing up it was always like this random plaza, random restaurant at some point you realize that somebody decided to be here and live their life this way
Dec 31, 2025 · 2:37PMexternal (push) + internal (pull) internal (push) + external (pull)
Dec 30, 2025 · 4:27PMat some point you just have to decide if you are going to live laugh love or not
Dec 30, 2025 · 2:15PMhonestly the key difference between you and the you you are striving towards is that he only has much more experience
Dec 30, 2025 · 10:08AMlong pointless videos
Dec 28, 2025 · 6:06PMbuilding character is like making bread
Dec 28, 2025 · 11:03AMsimple flavours heavenly execution
Dec 28, 2025 · 9:43AMearnestness is worth the risk
Dec 26, 2025 · 11:55PMdoes parkinson's apply to love
Dec 26, 2025 · 11:10PMi cannot believe how productive sitting around and doing nothing can be
Dec 26, 2025 · 3:04PMand so, he comes to life
Dec 26, 2025 · 2:54PMhow far will you go?
Dec 26, 2025 · 10:15AMplaying bad bunny in a vietnamese restaurant
Dec 26, 2025 · 1:07AMNone of us knows what’s going to happen tomorrow, right? Let’s eat.
Dec 25, 2025 · 10:39PMfuck i am so lucky
Dec 25, 2025 · 8:48PMWe all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
Dec 25, 2025 · 5:10PMa loving life
Dec 25, 2025 · 11:46AMthis life is too short to not buy flowers! to say thank you! to be earnest!
Dec 24, 2025 · 12:48PMentitled to nothing
Dec 24, 2025 · 12:36PMTHERE IS NO RULEBOOK, DANCE AS MUCH AS YOU WANT TO DANCE, SING AS LOUD AS YOU WANT TO SING, COLOUR INSIDE OR OUTSIDE THE LINES
Dec 24, 2025 · 11:59AMwe're all obsessives
Dec 23, 2025 · 10:03PMan infinite climb
Dec 23, 2025 · 1:24PMyou can find the answers wherever you want to find them
Dec 21, 2025 · 9:08PMi’m down for a slow burn
Dec 21, 2025 · 8:53PMyou should keep your mind on your breathing until you are no longer aware of your breathing
Dec 21, 2025 · 12:07PMthank you for the opportunity
Dec 21, 2025 · 3:21AMthe scary feeling of uploading your entire camera roll to the cloud and just having faith nothing was missed
Dec 17, 2025 · 8:11PMi'll get there soon
Dec 16, 2025 · 12:57AMthis is not a dress rehearsal
Dec 16, 2025 · 12:05AMspecial moment, special people, special place!
Dec 14, 2025 · 12:36AMthere's more to life than work
Dec 12, 2025 · 10:32AMand scene
Dec 11, 2025 · 11:42AMwhat is structure
Dec 11, 2025 · 11:38AMyou have to catch yourself, every time you're just about to switch into autopilot, and remember that you need to stay on the wheel
Dec 11, 2025 · 12:27AMdepth is not good for its own sake
Dec 10, 2025 · 9:25PMrebuild the model everyday
Dec 11, 2025 · 12:08AMso much clutter builds up in our ways of thinking, perspective is refreshing because it makes you look at all of that and ask why the fuck is that there
Dec 11, 2025 · 12:08AMthe fluidity and philosophy of music
Dec 9, 2025 · 3:26PMcontinuously grateful for everything that has led to This Moment
Dec 8, 2025 · 10:13PMthe distribution of light
Dec 7, 2025 · 11:21AMkill all desire, embrace being
Dec 7, 2025 · 1:55AMhate is too strong a word, and it has no place in the heart
Dec 5, 2025 · 11:19PMthere is too much love, to be bothered by even the smallest pinch of hate
Dec 5, 2025 · 11:19PMwith love, we move forward
Dec 5, 2025 · 10:50PMa pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind
Dec 5, 2025 · 6:55PMto embark on a role seriously is to be willing to be foolish
Dec 4, 2025 · 6:44PMthe only things that survive are simple, open, and in your control.
Dec 4, 2025 · 2:16PMonly those who will risk going too far can possibly find out just how far one can go.
Dec 2, 2025 · 7:38PMcreate for the versions of yourself
Dec 2, 2025 · 7:28PMcollect constraints you enjoy
Dec 2, 2025 · 1:57PMthis life is an investigation
Dec 2, 2025 · 1:52PMnostalgia maxing
Dec 2, 2025 · 10:54AMladies and gentlemen, welcome to the show
Dec 1, 2025 · 7:27PMkill the ego
Nov 30, 2025 · 10:59PMdon't assume you know so much
Nov 30, 2025 · 10:58PMdensity
Nov 30, 2025 · 3:15PMeven the trees go towards the light!
Nov 30, 2025 · 12:42PMfocus, freedom, fun
Nov 30, 2025 · 12:37PMsilent pov vlogs
Nov 30, 2025 · 12:14PMwrite more guides
Nov 30, 2025 · 12:11PMshift the probabilities
Nov 30, 2025 · 11:57AMit's a special feeling to receive the friends & family discount
Nov 30, 2025 · 11:21AMthese rainy quiet days are some of my favourites
Nov 30, 2025 · 11:17AMimportant that the hands are dirtied
Nov 28, 2025 · 6:00PMif you saw how hard they were working you'd be less dismissive
Nov 28, 2025 · 5:45PMthe highest level of play is always fun to participate in, to even observe
Nov 27, 2025 · 1:04PMaction leads to understanding
Nov 23, 2025 · 11:43PMthere's moving fast because you understand the fundamentals, and there's moving fast because your body is scared of it
Nov 23, 2025 · 11:39PMat the end of it all, you have to be able to look back and say "i did everything i wanted to, and more."
Nov 23, 2025 · 11:35PMevery moment is a tiny little gift
Nov 23, 2025 · 11:18PMi miss so many of my friends
Nov 23, 2025 · 1:33AMyou must overestimate humankind
Nov 22, 2025 · 4:50PMfull acceptance and high expectation
Nov 22, 2025 · 1:58AMevery night i die and every morning i am reborn
Nov 21, 2025 · 1:42PMthe current has been put to rest
Nov 21, 2025 · 10:49AMresearch as a stunt
Nov 19, 2025 · 4:40PMwe worked hard today
Nov 18, 2025 · 8:49PMbe really generous
Nov 18, 2025 · 10:51AMrelease your inhibitions
Nov 17, 2025 · 10:00PMthe fucked up part is that, i'm genuinely having a lot of fun
Nov 16, 2025 · 8:49PMwhat is your win condition?
Nov 16, 2025 · 5:02PMwhat a blessing it is to be tired in the pursuit of a challenge of your own choosing
Oct 8, 2025 · 11:45PMthe language you use is the life you live
Nov 16, 2025 · 12:35PMstep sequence
Nov 16, 2025 · 12:15PMover time
Nov 16, 2025 · 11:00AMthere’s a lot to be done but it will be done
Nov 16, 2025 · 12:56AMespecially when creating something new, people will try to measure you by the standards of the past
Nov 15, 2025 · 7:15PMdoubt is a powerful cataylst
Nov 15, 2025 · 7:14PMyou would not be able to fathom how hard some people are working to win some of the games you're loosely playing
Nov 15, 2025 · 1:09PMi'm of the philosophy that you should try to identify, and then win, in the most important game of your life, and trust that everything else will resolve itself accordingly
Nov 15, 2025 · 1:08PMloneliness is moreso an abandonment of the self rather than a disconnection from others
Nov 15, 2025 · 12:52PMthe core ideas you have permeate everything you do
Nov 14, 2025 · 4:59PMfriends & family
Nov 13, 2025 · 8:43PMlady bugs keep landing on me
Nov 13, 2025 · 5:32PMa leap of faith
Nov 12, 2025 · 12:08PMstake your life in the here and now
Nov 12, 2025 · 12:07PMstoryboard everything
Nov 11, 2025 · 8:15AMhas your turn come yet? no, i'm still fighting when does it end? when i can't fight anymore
Nov 10, 2025 · 10:40PMnobody said this would be easy. the winter always comes around. but at the end of winter, spring. that’s what makes this special. it ends.
Nov 10, 2025 · 10:16PMit's happy boy winter
Nov 10, 2025 · 8:05PMthe winter affords focus
Nov 10, 2025 · 11:35AMevery hour feels so important
Nov 10, 2025 · 9:05AMmy favourite part about the winter is that the nights actually feel brighter because of the light reflecting off of the snow. snowfall feels calm and peaceful. any chance for warmth is suddenly a rich resource.
Nov 9, 2025 · 10:30PMi hope my wandering friends find warmth
Nov 9, 2025 · 10:21PMit takes care
Nov 9, 2025 · 9:56PMit takes a village
Nov 9, 2025 · 8:54PMeveryone's context, constantly shifting, sometimes drastic, treat with care
Nov 9, 2025 · 8:01PMrent 10 pcs with your friends, go into debt if you have to
Nov 8, 2025 · 8:49PMgo for the win
Nov 8, 2025 · 10:54AMhow lucky i am
Nov 8, 2025 · 2:10AMthe time always comes
Nov 7, 2025 · 9:22PMfortune favours the bold
Nov 7, 2025 · 8:24PMeverything is homework
Nov 7, 2025 · 11:04AMplease keep your dreams alive
Nov 5, 2025 · 7:38PMhow long of a game are you playing?
Nov 5, 2025 · 8:57AMaddicted to sunshine
Nov 4, 2025 · 5:23PMif you rush into your day you will rush into your life
Nov 4, 2025 · 6:44AMeverything is a skill issue, everything is my responsibility, everything is my bad
Nov 3, 2025 · 10:07PMmy little brain can't process all of this information
Nov 3, 2025 · 7:01PMgood luck, have fun
Nov 3, 2025 · 7:36AMsun was a special shade of pink this morning
Nov 3, 2025 · 7:24AMalways fightin
Nov 3, 2025 · 6:46AMrealizing you are not the first and will not be the last to navigate these feelings and experiences will help alleviate their burden
Nov 2, 2025 · 8:23PMno relationship will ever replace the one you must have with yourself
Nov 2, 2025 · 8:09PMsmile more and say thank you
Nov 2, 2025 · 3:49PMto become any new, better, different version of yourself, you have to be willing to let the current version die
Nov 2, 2025 · 2:56AMupwards and onwards
Nov 2, 2025 · 2:08AMelevation, naturalness, virtue, expansiveness
Nov 1, 2025 · 3:36PMrespond concisely, thoughtfully, use as few words as possible
Nov 1, 2025 · 1:16PMwere you able to find what you were seeking?
Oct 30, 2025 · 9:47PMtired of being misunderstood, but not tired enough to conform
Oct 30, 2025 · 9:44PMwe will win
Oct 30, 2025 · 9:43PMwhat if you framed it as "the beginning of something special"?
Oct 29, 2025 · 9:16PMi feel lucky to be learning so much
Oct 29, 2025 · 9:27AMbuild the world, everything else will follow
Oct 29, 2025 · 12:24AMwhat are your feedback cycles?
Oct 28, 2025 · 1:06PMsmall mental shift, live as if it matters - and it will
Oct 27, 2025 · 11:20PMevery day, an opportunity to reinvent the self
Oct 27, 2025 · 11:18PMto what degree can you create systemic change
Oct 27, 2025 · 3:18PMto answer these questions, we need to
Oct 27, 2025 · 8:07AMat the end of it all, what will this life amount to?
Oct 27, 2025 · 6:28AMabsence, extremities, violence, mundane
Oct 26, 2025 · 10:53PM"multifaceted" is a lagging descriptor of what everyone already is
Oct 26, 2025 · 10:50PMit takes guts!
Oct 26, 2025 · 7:53PMtruly excellent work is invisible
Oct 26, 2025 · 2:09AMthere's so so so much more i need to learn
Oct 25, 2025 · 8:54PMwork really really really hard, try as many things as you possibly can, double click into any obstacle that suggests "you can't do this" - pursue it to test how true that statement is, repay debts, pay kindness forward, ask good questions, keep going
Oct 24, 2025 · 12:49AMdiscerning between what matters and what doesn't
Oct 23, 2025 · 4:54PMLONG DAYS SHORT YEARS
Oct 22, 2025 · 10:16PMeveryday you wake up and it's a choice, it's a choice to outwork everyone, it's a choice to go faster, it's a choice to want it more than anyone else does, it's a choice to keep going even when it's hard, it's a choice to get back up after you've been knocked down, it's all a choice, and the most beautiful thing about it all is that it's your choice, so please fucking decide
Oct 22, 2025 · 1:38AMhow can i help?
Oct 21, 2025 · 11:07PMa pot of pho is like a love letter
Oct 21, 2025 · 8:25PMspeed + precision = clarity
Oct 21, 2025 · 7:17PMpractice what you preach
Oct 21, 2025 · 3:07PMin the pursuit of “having it all”, the recurring lesson is that it is not possible. to acquire something is to lose the space that it will occupy.
Oct 20, 2025 · 11:52PMa lot of aging is just as much letting go than it is harvesting
Oct 20, 2025 · 11:48PMit all comes down to what game are you trying to play, are you playing to be the loudest? are you playing to be the most effective? are you playing the game of love and marriage? are you playing the game of wealth? are you playing the game because you want to, or because you think you have to? are you playing for others, or are you playing for yourself?
Oct 20, 2025 · 7:09PMi can go faster.
Oct 20, 2025 · 6:26PMfight the fight, don't be attached to the result
Oct 20, 2025 · 11:47AMTO UNDERSTAND YOUR "PURPOSE", SIMPLY CREATE A LARGE BODY OF WORK AND CONTINUOUSLY ANALYZE IT
Oct 19, 2025 · 9:38PMFOR THIS VERY BRIEF MOMENT IN TIME THAT WE ARE HERE, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE THE MOST OF IT AND TRY MY VERY BEST!
Oct 19, 2025 · 9:38PMATTRIBUTE ANY GENIUS TO THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE ME, MY MENTORS, PEERS, AND FRIENDS. ASSUME ANY ERROR OR FOOLISHNESS IS OF MY OWN DOING.
Oct 19, 2025 · 9:37PMthe unfolding happens a lot more neatly and gently when you loosen your grip on what currently is
Oct 19, 2025 · 11:49AMsitting on the toilet to pee is really freeing
Oct 18, 2025 · 1:34PMevery sense of "i can't", or "it's not possible" must be challenged, skinned to the bone, tested to see how honest the feeling is
Oct 18, 2025 · 10:10AMcurrent state future state
Oct 18, 2025 · 10:08AMpractice what you preach
Oct 18, 2025 · 10:08AMdesired path to success
Oct 17, 2025 · 11:21AMThe most healing space is within you.
Apr 6, 2021 · 6:05AMwhat a privilege, to have a mission to lay my life down for
Oct 16, 2025 · 8:30AMplay to win! even if not for yourself, then at least play to win for those who believe in you!
Oct 16, 2025 · 12:39AMspend some seconds, save some years
Oct 15, 2025 · 2:31PM"transcend, means to go beyond"
Oct 13, 2025 · 8:55PMwe are here to continuously exchange many tiny gifts with each other
Oct 8, 2025 · 9:28PMall hard work can be viewed as an expression of love and care if we love those around us, then it is our duty to be the best version of ourselves, to self-actualize and challenge ourselves, to do our best work and live life earnestly because if they truly love us, then there is no greater return on investment than seeing a loved one prosper and thrive and if we truly love them, then there is no greater act of love than to afford them the feeling of unconditional support, patience, and understanding we ought to work hard out of respect for those who love us
Oct 8, 2025 · 5:48PMyou have to apply yourself, to the best of your ability, simply out of respect for those who love you
Oct 8, 2025 · 5:13PMwin or lose, you cannot take this away from me
Oct 8, 2025 · 12:07AMsit in the context and you become the context
Oct 7, 2025 · 11:54PMbit of a jagged dagger, not sharp enough
Oct 7, 2025 · 9:51PMwhen all is lost you can always return to trying your best
Oct 7, 2025 · 7:10PMgrateful for the opporturnity
Oct 6, 2025 · 12:03AMan infinity to draw from, what will you choose
Oct 5, 2025 · 11:51PMvery little matters when you know what you want
Oct 5, 2025 · 11:50PMeverything worth having is on the other side of change
Oct 5, 2025 · 2:25AMdancing like it's the last dance
Oct 3, 2025 · 3:09AMmy life is my work is my love is my family is my friends is my team is my
Oct 1, 2025 · 12:12AMyou don’t get to learn the game when you spawn in a overpowered area
Sep 30, 2025 · 2:32PMeverything i do is out of respect for myself, my team, my loved ones, this world i live in.
Sep 30, 2025 · 1:06AMdo not use your yard stick to measure my value
Sep 26, 2025 · 9:43PMyour lack of respect is not inspiring
Sep 26, 2025 · 9:43PMnot interested in operating out of fear
Sep 26, 2025 · 9:43PMi have such a long long ways to go
Sep 24, 2025 · 8:42PMeverything is much, much easier than we typically expect
Sep 24, 2025 · 8:41PMthe world is such a big and beautiful place
Sep 24, 2025 · 8:41PMUNTANGLING THE KNOTS WE'VE CREATED FOR OURSELVES
Sep 24, 2025 · 8:41PMYOU CANNOT COMPETE WITH SOMEONE WHO IS HAVING FUN
Sep 23, 2025 · 1:04AMescape velocity
Sep 21, 2025 · 9:31PMthe mechanics of nature
Sep 21, 2025 · 1:46PMthe engineering of flowers
Sep 21, 2025 · 1:43PMto do something no one's ever really done before
Sep 15, 2025 · 9:42PMinstead of "how can i get the most", we ought to ask "how can i make the most"
Sep 15, 2025 · 7:31PMonce you have a proper mission you don't really stop
Sep 12, 2025 · 5:31PMthe highest human achievement isn't comparative (being better than others), but rather absolute (being everything you as a human being are capable of being)
Sep 9, 2025 · 10:56PMTHERE WILL COME A TIME WHEN YOUR BLADE IS NEEDED, SO KEEP SHARPENING
Sep 8, 2025 · 9:10AMwe should aim to document how we live so that we can better understand how to live
Sep 7, 2025 · 6:37PMeveryday i sense that i am still thinking too small
Sep 5, 2025 · 9:27PMeverything is on the other side of figuring out how difficult something actually is
Aug 30, 2025 · 1:45AMyour "mentors" don't even need to know you exist. just pick someone who inspires you, and absorb their entire life's work instead. read their biographies. watch their interviews. find their notes. study their idols. live inside their mind until you inherit their way of thinking.
Aug 28, 2025 · 7:26PMsimple shapes and colours are enough to express everything you need
Aug 27, 2025 · 3:49AMconstraints enhance clarity
Aug 27, 2025 · 3:50AMit's so easy to point a finger and blame someone or something else for anything and everything it's very challenging to put your hand down and look inward, focus on how you spend your own time and energy, choose a different game to play, a game that is based on internal values rather than external projections
Aug 26, 2025 · 10:28PMwe spend so much time looking around trying to find holes in things, problems to fix, things to improve, gaps to fill – we often brainwash ourselves into dismissing the amazing things that operate against all odds, have elevated our quality of life, are beautiful as they are
Aug 26, 2025 · 10:26PMone's willingness to persevere despite it all is the power they hold over the universe
Aug 24, 2025 · 10:07PMthe path to somewhere unknown is one that is not typically understood
Aug 24, 2025 · 12:07AMFocus on values and capturing things with simple shapes.
Aug 22, 2025 · 9:20PMlet the self fade, return to nothing
Aug 16, 2025 · 6:56PMthug it out
Aug 9, 2025 · 8:21PMcan't believe i forgot how critical spatial thinking was for myself
Jun 9, 2025 · 1:38AMyou ought to live with conviction and focus
May 18, 2025 · 2:21PMthere is an imagination gap
May 1, 2025 · 9:38PMnewness is consumed without tiring and sinks into the depths of time
Apr 30, 2025 · 11:40AMeverything you do is part of a performance art piece about your life
Apr 29, 2025 · 7:19PMeverything is a medium
Apr 28, 2025 · 5:04PMthinking differently doesn’t mean just thinking different thoughts “i’m gonna view the situation from a different angle” or “i’m going to consider all the potential scenarios” are still in the ball park of thinking the same, but moreso thinking more “thinking differently” implies that one is fundamentally altering the processing itself when you place yourself in genuinely unfamiliar territory - not just slightly outside your comfort zone, but in environments that operate on completely different assumptions - your brain has no choice but to create new processing frameworks
Apr 26, 2025 · 9:42AMmaking generates data faster than thinking. the clearest path to knowing what something is "about" is to start making it and see what emerges.
Apr 14, 2025 · 4:04PMevery day you are autofilled into a role, sometimes it's the same, sometimes it's different, but it's important that you play your role
Apr 12, 2025 · 7:31PMit's important that you make things with your hands
Apr 12, 2025 · 7:29PMCORE CLAIM: [The essential idea] PATTERNS: [Connections to existing knowledge] VALIDITY: [How could this be wrong?] APPLY: [How this changes what I do] TEST: [Quick experiment to validate]
Apr 3, 2025 · 11:32AMyou can learn everything you need to know about a person from knowing what and how they love
Mar 24, 2025 · 6:51PMi'm not interested in how people move, but what moves them
Mar 24, 2025 · 6:12PMThis is the wholeness I see you recognizing and moving toward - not a perfect or completed state, but a living pattern that allows for continuous growth, expression, and contribution.
Mar 24, 2025 · 4:55PMWhat makes this pursuit profound is that it's not about achieving some fixed state but about engaging in an ongoing process of integration and expression - becoming increasingly able to bring your full self to each moment, balancing fierce creativity with grounded presence, passionate engagement with fundamental trust.
Mar 24, 2025 · 4:55PMThis pattern of wholeness you're sensing isn't just about personal well-being - it's about creating a way of being that contributes something essential to your community and the world. The calm presence you described has a ripple effect, creating spaces where others can also access their deeper nature.
Mar 24, 2025 · 4:55PMThe most powerful aim might be developing what Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön calls "warrior's tenderness" - the capacity to face life directly with both courage and openness, neither hardening against difficulties nor being overwhelmed by them.
Mar 24, 2025 · 4:53PMYour insight about faith in life's processes could deepen into what philosopher Henry David Thoreau called "living deliberately" - a conscious engagement with life where you're neither passive nor controlling, but attentively participating in what unfolds.
Mar 24, 2025 · 4:52PMConsider aiming not just at a calm presence but at what the Zen tradition calls "dynamic stillness" - a state where you're fully present and responsive while maintaining internal spaciousness. This isn't about suppressing energy but about channeling it with greater awareness.
Mar 24, 2025 · 4:50PMThe integration of creative fire and grounded presence creates what some traditions call "centered creativity" - the ability to create from a place of both passion and peace. This allows for work that challenges without destabilizing, that transforms without destroying.
Mar 24, 2025 · 4:50PMA grounded presence that creates safety for others The ability to face challenges with a fundamental trust in life's processes Creative expression that comes from an authentic place A balance between respecting others and trusting your own capacities A lightness of being - the ability to "stay light" and "laugh at myself"
Mar 24, 2025 · 4:41PMWhat I see in your reflections is someone navigating a fascinating tension between creative fire and grounded presence. On one hand, you described writing "with a chip on your shoulder," with energy that's challenging and provocative. You mentioned the "underdog mentality" and how you've consistently "risen up to the same plate" as those you admire. On the other hand, you expressed this deep desire for a calm, centering presence - someone who helps others feel at ease, who "doesn't sweat the small stuff," who maintains faith even when challenges arise. I see someone who intuitively understands that these seemingly opposite qualities don't need to conflict. The most powerful creative presences often combine both fierce creative energy and profound groundedness. Think of great artists, leaders, or teachers who both challenge and calm us simultaneously. I also see someone with natural insight into human experience. Your observation about religious faith and translating it into your own context shows an ability to recognize underlying patterns across different domains - a hallmark of wisdom.
Mar 24, 2025 · 4:40PMChristopher Alexander, the architect and philosopher I was channeling, devoted his life to understanding these "patterns of wholeness" - qualities that feel deeply right, alive, and harmonious. He would say you've recognized what he called a "living pattern" - a way of being that has an essential rightness to it.
Mar 24, 2025 · 4:32PMi will be a warm, gentle light
Mar 24, 2025 · 4:19PMi want to figure people out, because i think by figuring others out, i'll be able to better figure myself out
Mar 24, 2025 · 4:12PMlive, laugh, love
Mar 9, 2025 · 12:16AMreoccurring pattern i'm noticing is that when working on the right thing, and/or when working with the right amount of force, the speed at which you transition between two opposite states can be really fucking fast you will be too poor, and then you will be too rich you will be too dumb, and then you will be too smart you will be too lonely, and then you will realize that everyone alive is your friend
Mar 9, 2025 · 12:15AMthe world is really a lovely place
Mar 9, 2025 · 12:10AMmake like a plant and absorb the sun
Mar 9, 2025 · 12:08AMsometimes you can just ignore everything else and just ask "how can i have fun?" i've typically found that everything else sorts itself out afterwards
Mar 9, 2025 · 12:08AMsometimes people need to walk into a brand new environment, to let the light, sounds, and smells permeate them to realize that you are genuinely serious about accomplishing what others may think is impossible
Mar 9, 2025 · 12:04AMwhen you [do the thing], you afford others to feel as though they now have the permission to also [do the thing]
Mar 9, 2025 · 12:02AMthe simplest and highest leverage thing you can do with yourself and your entire life is to dedicate everything you have to being kind and supporting others.
Mar 9, 2025 · 12:02AMyou own, and are owed, absolutely nothing in this world. everything exists as is and does not have any true belonging. this means that you have nothing to lose. try living like that.
Mar 9, 2025 · 12:01AMpeople's perceptions and models of you will always be lagging indicators, and in some cases, they can be extremely delayed don't lean on them too heavily as "the path", maybe moreso as analytics to see if you're on the right track
Mar 9, 2025 · 12:00AMi'm not really sure what true love is or what it's supposed to look like but i think i've figured out for myself that it's the feeling you have that everything will be okay despite it all and you can enjoy the little things that make you smile
Mar 8, 2025 · 11:58PMa recent and important learning is that staying light is most important when you have every reason to be heavy
Mar 8, 2025 · 11:56PMi haven't been able to sit down to think or reflect much recently, life has been very much in motion - but this has its own merits
Mar 8, 2025 · 11:55PMjust create the piece that makes you happy
Mar 1, 2025 · 9:42AMthe way we live life can be seen as art in of itself
Mar 1, 2025 · 9:42AMyou cannot take my laughter away from me!
Feb 28, 2025 · 1:43AMkingdoms can be overthrown through sheer willpower
Feb 28, 2025 · 1:07AMyou used to dream for days like today
Feb 26, 2025 · 11:00PMit is difficult for me to subscribe to the idea that if one is uninspired by their surrounding environment, the only option is to leave and find inspiration elsewhere
Feb 25, 2025 · 10:05AMlately i've been believin
Feb 26, 2025 · 12:31AMthe snow reflects the light that shines upon it
Feb 21, 2025 · 3:05PMstaying light matters the most when the world feels its heaviest
Feb 21, 2025 · 10:04AMstop and take the photo, you won't regret it
Feb 19, 2025 · 5:18PMif the people I love depend on the quality of my thinking, I ought to do my best to increase the quality of thinking as much as I possibly can.
Feb 19, 2025 · 5:15PMEs wird nicht leichter. Du wirst stärker
Feb 19, 2025 · 12:14AMlately i've been able to do what i love everyday alongside people that i love, so in that sense - i am the richest man i know.
Feb 18, 2025 · 11:34PMAlthough for many years I lived hand to mouth—sometimes in semi-poverty—I have lived like a rich man ever since I started making films. Throughout my life I have been able to do what I truly love, which is more valuable than any cash you could throw at me. At a time when friends were establishing themselves by getting university degrees, going into business, building careers and buying houses, I was making films, investing everything back into my work.
Dec 13, 2024 · 8:50PMmy entire life will be spent trying to express how much i love the people i love
Dec 27, 2024 · 8:51PM*Become* self-less; obliterate yourself from the equation; spare the soil your indentation; design as if you are not designing; build as if you are not building; as if no one will remember you. They will not need to.
Sep 20, 2023 · 5:24AMOpen-ended ecosystems are where meaning is made. The meaning comes from the system surprising itself.
Mar 2, 2022 · 10:18PMbe an open hand
Dec 29, 2024 · 12:20PMBourdain: To sit alone or with a few friends, half-drunk under a full moon, you just understand how lucky you are; it’s a story you can’t tell. It’s a story you almost by definition, can’t share. I’ve learned in real time to look at those things and realize: I just had a really good moment.
Aug 18, 2018 · 6:15AMHow different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love", we were saying "I think I've connected with someone in a way that makes me think I'm on the way to knowing love"
Sep 17, 2022 · 1:51AM“I think the greatest gift you can ever give is an honest receiving of what a person has to offer.” “It’s so very hard, receiving,” he said. “When you give something, you’re in much greater control. But when you receive something, you’re so vulnerable.”
Dec 30, 2024 · 11:52PMWhen the Master governs, the people are hardly aware that he exists. Next best is a leader who is loved. Next, one who is feared. The worst is one who is despised. If you don't trust the people, you make them untrustworthy. The Master doesn't talk, he acts. When his work is done, the people say, "Amazing: we did it, all by ourselves!"
Jan 5, 2025 · 6:42PMIntention is necessary to make a body move
Dec 30, 2024 · 2:53AMisn't that what life is about? learning to love purely while letting others be exactly who they are?
Jan 4, 2025 · 3:12AMthere are two options: 1. spiral upward towards the sky - to believe you are more capable than your current state. challenge yourself & evolve beyond it. 2. spiral downward to the earth - admit defeat against a greater force (external or within). retract to do more inner, foundational work. neither of these are wrong. it's truly a decision of where you think your energy & effort is best allocated. when we remove the pressure of "getting it right" the decision becomes a lot easier to make.
Dec 8, 2020 · 6:54AMi've found that when i'm feeling lost, frustrated, or uninspired - doing something out of love balances me
Feb 8, 2025 · 11:49PMeach human is an infinity
Feb 15, 2025 · 12:22PMthere will come many days where you look back and say “i fucking knew nothing”
Feb 12, 2025 · 8:09AMextremely curious about what a human being is capable of, particularly myself.
Feb 18, 2025 · 11:32PMif we are a frog, we are always ourselves. but even the frog loses himself, and he makes a sour face. so i think a frog is always addressing himself. even in zazen you will lose yourself. because you lose yourself, your problem will be a problem for you. the problem is you yourself. if this is so, there is no problem. when you are you, you see things as they are, and you become one with your surroundings. there is your true self.
Feb 18, 2025 · 11:31PMin a way, it's kind of impossible for the people you truly love to ever "kill the fun", because life with these people is automatically the most fun kind of life you could live anyways
Feb 18, 2025 · 11:30PMvalue is derived from sacrifice for anything to be valued means that there are other things that must be valued less to value something is to sacrifice the amount that we can value other things
Feb 18, 2025 · 11:28PMbouldering is this intensely direct environment/context in which you are constantly hypothesizing what your body can afford, and then immediately testing against it
Feb 18, 2025 · 11:27PMusing social media as a means to document my journey of self-actualization (as well as leaving breadcrumbs for whoever wishes to review the life that i lived) realizing that i won't need to tell my own story if i live right
Feb 18, 2025 · 11:26PMthere's truly way too much to learn and explore lately i'm grateful for the abundance
Feb 18, 2025 · 11:25PMi'm learning that the most powerful posture to have is to show up as you are, be curious, and to laugh at yourself when you fall short the rest figures itself out
Feb 18, 2025 · 11:25PMfinding love everywhere nowadays
Feb 18, 2025 · 11:23PMsomething innate in me wants to challenge the universe to give me its toughest battles so i can show it that i still have the capacity to love regardless there is very little anyone or anything can do to take away my peace
Feb 18, 2025 · 11:23PMFame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Dec 22, 2024 · 7:17PMI set about [in 1927] to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity. — Buckminster Fuller
Dec 21, 2024 · 8:58AM"The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao."
Dec 20, 2024 · 12:36PM"If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial. If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked. If you want to become full, let yourself be empty."
Dec 20, 2024 · 12:36PMThe gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world. That which has no substance enters where there is no space. This shows the value of non-action.
Dec 20, 2024 · 11:32AMIn Vietnamese tradition, we have the concept of "thương" - a kind of love that transcends romantic attraction and speaks to deep care and understanding. Many Vietnamese poets have written about how feelings of "thương" for someone transformed into broader compassion and wisdom that benefited their entire community.
Dec 19, 2024 · 3:50PMIn Japanese culture, there's a beautiful concept called "koi no yokan" - the feeling upon first meeting someone that falling in love with them is inevitable. Rather than treating this as just romantic anticipation, traditional Japanese culture often viewed it as a signal to develop oneself, to become worthy of such a connection, whether or not it actually manifested romantically.
Dec 19, 2024 · 3:49PMThe medieval tradition of courtly love provides another fascinating example. Knights would direct their admiration toward noble ladies who were often unavailable to them. Rather than seeing this as merely frustrating, they transformed these feelings into a path of self-refinement - developing virtues like courage, loyalty, and artistic expression. The important thing to note is that the unavailability of the beloved wasn't seen as a failure but as an essential part of the transformative process.
Dec 19, 2024 · 3:47PMInstead of asking "Why is this happening to me?" or "How can I fix this?", we might ask "What larger pattern is this part of?" or "How might this challenge serve purposes beyond my individual experience?" This shift doesn't eliminate the difficulty of our challenges, but it does transform how we relate to them.
Dec 19, 2024 · 9:49AMWe can appreciate the role that all our relationships - whether they meet our hopes or not - play in our development and in the larger unfolding of human connection and understanding.
Dec 19, 2024 · 9:36AMBut when we engage fully with work that serves purposes beyond ourselves, we often find that happiness and peace arise naturally as by-products of this engagement.
Dec 19, 2024 · 9:30AMThe artist evolves not through direct pursuit of evolution, but through devoted engagement with the work.
Dec 19, 2024 · 9:30AMIn a nod to Jerry Seinfeld, we called it "planners on bikes getting coffee." We really should reignite this meetup.
Dec 8, 2024 · 9:48AMThe best clutter is a byproduct of taste and time, accrued and overlayed as a space is lived in and used
Dec 7, 2024 · 12:38AMSee patterns, not personal territory - then respond with unconditional love to help those patterns evolve.
Dec 2, 2024 · 2:23PMMy role is to unconditionally love.
Dec 2, 2024 · 2:23PMI know nothing, but I have a lot of love to give.
Dec 2, 2024 · 2:23PMYou ought to live more in the world in front of you rather than the world you’ve drawn up in your head.
Dec 2, 2024 · 2:23PMSomething can only be personal if you make it personal.
Dec 2, 2024 · 2:23PMAttribute any genius to those who came before me, my mentors, peers, and friends. Assume any error or foolishness is of my own doing.
Dec 2, 2024 · 2:23PMmental models are interfaces
Dec 2, 2024 · 2:22PMcreate projects for the purpose of love
Nov 29, 2024 · 12:07AMunderstanding music is understanding skips and steps
Nov 28, 2024 · 11:57PMAll of my agency hacks are kind of like this, in my opinion -- big, glaring edges that people might rather ignore.
Nov 28, 2024 · 10:34PMWriting down everything that went wrong helped us pinpoint the bottlenecks, the frictions. It also forced us to put words to our goals, values, and assumptions, opening those up for discussion and refinement. Is that really what you want? What are you willing to give up to achieve it? How do you feel about it?
Nov 28, 2024 · 9:16PMIteration speed is key when you deal with feedback loops of this kind, when you want to figure out how to best understand and interact with an emergent reality.
Nov 28, 2024 · 9:10PMthe hardness of the problem wasn’t personal.
Nov 28, 2024 · 9:00PMI felt like Dostoevsky: I had crafted the space in which she could say words that surprised us. And then I answered like a character by Dostoevsky pushed to a tight spot: “I will use your words to transcend myself.”
Nov 28, 2024 · 8:53PMIf you want to pull out the full richness of your being, the place to go is where it’s exciting but hard.
Nov 28, 2024 · 8:49PMThis, I think, is a healthy way to think about love. It is about being invested in someone’s continual expansion.
Nov 28, 2024 · 8:47PMA person can’t be contained in your ideas about them.
Nov 28, 2024 · 8:42PMyou must try everything that you can.
Nov 24, 2024 · 2:38AMif you focus on what you've left behind, you'll never be able to see what lies ahead.
Nov 24, 2024 · 2:38AManyone can cook, but only the fearless can be great.
Nov 24, 2024 · 2:38AMyou must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. your only limit is your soul.
Nov 24, 2024 · 2:38AMhumans don't just survive, they discover, they create
Nov 24, 2024 · 2:38AMEvolution isn't linear. Sometimes you grow by expanding, sometimes by contracting. Sometimes the best way forward is to go back to your roots.
Nov 15, 2024 · 3:32PMThe gap between taste and execution closes through a large volume of work, not by achieving perfection.
Nov 15, 2024 · 3:14PM"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
Nov 9, 2024 · 10:43AMyou cannot walk by a flower who is out of season, water it, and become upset with it for not blossoming.
Nov 9, 2024 · 10:21AMdefault to empathy, lean into optimism, err towards kindness
Nov 4, 2024 · 6:57AMyou can't shortcut wealth
Nov 3, 2024 · 9:22AMliving earnestly is its own art form
Nov 2, 2024 · 11:27PMsignal is everywhere
Oct 27, 2024 · 9:24PMAnytime you're in an environment you need to prove your worth, change that feeling into a question immediately.
Oct 27, 2024 · 9:08PMI want to understand my purpose and how I can contribute, and I believe that I can achieve that through a large volume of work and by continuously analyzing this large body of work.
Oct 27, 2024 · 9:06PMif you are light, ambitious, and serious enough - nothing is impossible.
Oct 26, 2024 · 11:19PMthere is no need to be anxious over what is to come, for what is to come will come.
Oct 26, 2024 · 11:18PMyou should spend every morning studying.
Oct 26, 2024 · 11:18PMremember to not get so caught up in that head of yours. it'll run you in circles, keep you busy, and make you forget that there's a whole world outside of it that you ought to explore.
Oct 26, 2024 · 11:17PMtoday, i unlocked the mental model that i am already enough. i am the path. i have everything i need. there is nothing that can complete me. there is only a life to be lived, and it ought to be lived well.
Oct 26, 2024 · 11:16PMclimbing saved my life, because it taught me that i am capable of anything and that every problem has a unique solution that i can find for myself.
Oct 26, 2024 · 11:13PMfor the longest time, i've flip-flopped between the two extremities; (1) being a hopeless romantic and yearning for love (2) being an extreme individualist and believing that i have an infinite amount of "work" to be done before i can be worthy of love the truth is, everyone deserves love. the question to be explored is what kind of love do you want to welcome into your life? what is the price of this love? what value does this love provide for you? is it hedonistic or is it in the pursuit of something generative?
Oct 26, 2024 · 11:12PMthe most important work that anyone can do is to look inwards and truly reflect and explore themselves. with a proper understanding of the self, one can see that they have everything they need already and everything else the world provides is icing.
Oct 26, 2024 · 11:10PMit's okay to be a romantic, it's not okay to believe that you are not deserving of love until you accomplish some "end" state.
Oct 26, 2024 · 11:09PMThis is the most clarity I've ever felt in my life. I see the path forward and I understand what needs to be done. - I'm hopeful. - I feel light. - The work is simple, but can simple can be difficult. - Everything is easier when you have amazing, loving people in your corner. - It's worth being serious when you should be serious.
Oct 26, 2024 · 11:08PMTime alone has taught me how to evolve. - I need to be strict with how I spend my time and who I spend my time with. There is no room for looseness. - I need to dedicate mornings to studying. - It's okay to yearn. - I need to climb more.
Oct 26, 2024 · 11:06PMDesire is a beautiful emotion and a visceral motivator. I think you should court it with a healthy respect. Life is at once more serious and more exuberant if you do so. There is a sweetness tasted not just in success, but in enjoying the searches and quests themselves, and in maintaining a wistful imagination. The threat of failure is necessary to accept these benefits. If you cultivate only defense, you will not cultivate the others.
Oct 24, 2024 · 5:04PMCreating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it's to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential-as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth. You'll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you're doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you'll hear about them.
Oct 24, 2024 · 3:56PMThe truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
Oct 24, 2024 · 3:50PMIt was a rude shock to see just how empty and robotic life can be when you don't care about what you're doing, and the only reason you're there is to pay the bills. Thoreau said, "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
Oct 24, 2024 · 3:47PMpick a game and play it well.
Oct 24, 2024 · 1:56PMbecoming an advisor, mentor, older brother.
Oct 24, 2024 · 1:55PMwrite more love letters, write about love, write about pain, write about success, write about failure, write about clarity, write about confusion, write when you're lost, write when you're found, write.
Oct 24, 2024 · 1:55PMdesign is problem solving.
Oct 24, 2024 · 1:54PMbe opinionated, have strong ideas, share them with the world.
Oct 24, 2024 · 1:54PManxiety is a lighthouse.
Oct 24, 2024 · 1:53PMslow down.
Oct 24, 2024 · 1:53PMfocus on not suffering.
Oct 24, 2024 · 1:53PM