Is there any escape from the tyranny of modern work tools?
Are we blinding ourselves to the opportunities quietly unfolding while we’re too busy scrolling through the next disaster?
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Instead of asking “Will this advance my career?” ask “Will this matter when I look back on my life’s work?”
oh no, you called joe rogan “joe rogaine.” his testosterone just dropped by 300% and all the elk meat in his freezer turned into tofu. truly a devastating blow to the podcast industrial complex
They say the truth will set you free, but all it’s ever done for me is get me in trouble and occasionally banned from social gatherings
when I was a kid i genuinely thought Scorpions would be a bigger threat to my life than they are
By convincing a generation that their feelings are the ultimate compass, you make them emotionally fragile and hyper-focused on the self
new rule: if you create a word like “Finfluencer” or “Mompreneur,” you are legally obligated to sit in a small room and explain it to a 19th-century coal miner until they start crying.
How do we maintain healthy skepticism without falling into the trap of reflexive contrarianism?
voter turnout hinges entirely on how close the ballot box is to the couch.
Your comfort zone is a coffin. Climb out, or get buried in mediocrity.
Radical optimism doesn’t pretend the darkness isn’t there—it stares it down and says, “so fucking what?” It’s the audacity to see the cracks, the failures, the wreckage, and still believe we can claw our way out.
writing about “how to be a writer” isn’t writing, it’s a pyramid scheme. all these “make 6 figures as a writer” articles are the new Tupperware parties. you’re just convincing other desperate souls to believe in the fantasy while your own manuscript rots in a Google Doc no one will ever open.
Never forget: misogyny is a skill issue
Partisan divides widen as we lose shared sources of information and ways to communicate across differences — society fragments without a common baseline understanding of truth.
Life is technically full of endless possibilities, but most of us just choose the same three: procrastinate, overthink, and order takeout. Philosophers call this ‘the human condition.’ Delivery drivers call it ‘job security.'
Wednesday, November 27, 2024 →
Instead of sitting around waiting for a mountain of data like a frequentist would, Bayesian approaches let you work with what you’ve got—using prior knowledge (like past election trends) and tweaking the odds as new information comes in.
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Wednesday, November 27, 2024 →
Is our legacy “debt” something we can or should erase?
Or is it the only part of us that matters?
In the current age, journaling itself has become a radical act of privacy, a deliberate choice to keep our thoughts and experiences to ourselves.