a defiance of the merely given. But that defiance comes at a cost. The artist trades comfort for creation, peace for vision, truth for meaning. To shape reality is to stand apart from it — turning existence into something worth living, often in tension sometimes pain.

What all art has in common is this: creation out of resistance. The artist sees the raw, indifferent real and says, “This is not enough.” They create meaning where none was given, shape where there was disorder, beauty where there was only necessity. It’s transformation.

Art isn’t limited to painting or music. It’s the same impulse behind designing a car, writing code, founding a movement, or rethinking a belief system. Whenever someone refuses to leave the world untouched and instead imposes form, order, or vision upon it, they are creating art.

“No artist tolerates reality.” — Nietzsche What he meant isn’t that artists deny the world, but that they can’t accept it as it is. An artist’s instinct is to reshape, or reimagine reality — to turn chaos into form, pain into beauty, confusion into meaning.

The working senses are superior to dull matter; mind is higher than the senses; intelligence is still higher than the mind; and thou [the soul] art even higher than intelligence.

Pain is the greatest teacher

The future is unevenly distributed.

Happy Nawruz! ✨ Celebrating the ancient festival of renewal. May this new year bring you joy, success, and endless blessings! #Nawruz #SpringEquinox #NewBeginnings

Microsoft finally cracked Majorana-based quantum computing. Exciting first step for a long road ahead to scale this.

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I asked Claude if it could meditate. The first reply was a boilerplate refusal. But then something very interesting happened.

Extremely destructive if accurate

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