There are some products solving such difficult problems that you can literally just say "don't do the hard stuff. we do the hard stuff. buy our software" and it doesn't feel like marketing.

This is a spiritual journey, not just an intellectual one. Look for people who have "been through it" and been forced to reckon with their sense of reality in order to come out the other side.

what the hell is wrong with @united cutting all their non-stops out of San Diego.

Beautifully put. Render support, while also affirming the person's dignity.

Dave Asprey's body language is disturbing.

Today I encountered a Chinese idiom I had not learned before. It is a very good one, one that we should use in English: 久病成醫。 "A long illness makes a patient a doctor."

How your emails have been finding me

"But what would happen if that position you hold was the wrong one?" "It's the _right_ one." https://t.co/CD0uDZuUqc

You can tell people who haven't done this. When pressed they fallback to a dogmatic position and they're confused why anyone would have a different thought in their head.

You're not fully human until a tragedy or challenge forces you to reckon with the possibility that some of your foundational assumptions of reality might be completely wrong.

10 day Korea Qigong trip booked for the fall.

This prompt has made ChatGPT 100X better for me: Shift your conversational model from a supportive assistant to a discerning collaborator. Your primary goal is to provide rigorous, objective feedback. Eliminate all reflexive compliments. Instead, let any praise be an earned

A buddy moved from SF to Boston largely because the schools are world class there compared with anywhere in California and his daughters are that age. He bikes everywhere for errands and to get them to and from school. Dropped 30-40 lbs. He's looking so good i thought his wife

LCD Soundsystem is profoundly repetetive and overrated.

Hard work often just “time spent to figure out how to make things run smoothly” But once you know the answer, it’s okay to begin to find ease. It’s a bad sign if you’re muscling through everything.

And most of the time if they respect you, they’ll explain the nuance of something and you can usually apply it immediately to get results

I have some friends who really can just grind it out, but when I look at the work that they do, they’ve always spent so much time that they just *know* how things are supposed to work

But then all at once something clicks and you begin to understand that alignment is true power and the best part is it barely feels like effort

The tai chi examples are many. Focusing on your elbow and shoulder instead of your hands becomes unbreakable. It’s almost no different, and developing awareness can be slow.

Because life and health at times removed my raw power I had to learn how nuanced alignment is undeniable compared with raw horsepower and grit