Correlation ≠ covenant

i love that you hear my cry for help and take it seriously.

Omg is Playground Twitter 🥲 Such a good book!!!!

The philosophy professor Michael Huemer has said that academia functions as an “intellectual ghetto” which safely houses intellectuals and prevents them from inflicting too much damage on the real world.

My nervous system just prefers sunlight and infrastructure.

Read 5 pages of MRI doom → 15 minutes with Alyosha and his deeply tragic spiritual ennui

#beatyesterday #garmin

我回來了

“My name is Manousos Oviedo. I am not one of them. I wish to save the world.” #pluribus

it's alright my brain's just doing some catastrophic Bayesian updating over here

Stress hijacks the reward system. The body asks for quick glucose because it thinks it needs fuel to fight a predator. The “predator” is actually exam notes. But try explaining that to a hypothalamus. It does not have a degree.

“But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” — Joshua 24:15b Money, brilliance, productivity, beauty, distraction, romance, status, fitness, certainty, autonomy, control. We serve something whether we admit it or not. Joshua just said it out loud.

“No, I do not smile at strangers unless it advances the plot.”

wow

#推特讀 #CR Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner this book has been popping up in my recs since forever and i finally decided to pick it up and see what was the hype just read chapter 1. it's so good 💔

“I was somewhat in awe of her, and I translated this into artificial aplomb, because I imagined her a woman impatient with another woman’s self-deprecation.”

#CR #推特讀 The Shining has always been my favorite movie and I’m finally reading the book. The writing is so good!!!❄️

I'm thinking about Moses. Sometimes your purpose isn’t to arrive. It’s to carry the people, hold the line, speak the hard truth, and hand the torch forward. Not all callings end in closure. Some end in legacy.

“He’d made, as people do, an assumption about me that left me room to maneuver. Later, when he found out the truth—as people do—he’d be unbalanced by his own mistake. Another person’s unguardedness in that moment can be very useful, interpersonally, as long as you don’t soften.”

Levator palpebrae superioris your eyelids shut, gn.