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#89: how to love

The thing that's made a biggest difference in my life, a superpower, a big, huge change. To me, it's been, in short, skepticism. So if you wonder why…

Oct 6

September 2023

#88: living life on your own terms

Like an internal compass, boundaries can all start with a “gut feeling” that tells you when you have the time or energy to devote to something versus…

Sep 8

#87: the infinite game

The difference between seriousness and sincerity is not how involved you are in the activities of your life, but in how tightly you grip. In fact, I…

Sep 1

August 2023

#86: perception of time

“Time moves faster as you get older.” It doesn’t, but your perception of time absolutely moves faster. Actually, it gets scary fast.There’s nothing…

Aug 25

#85: hunger for life

In our anxious quest to redesign our systems to make them more humane and more accountable, we can’t either focus solely on rest or treat a life that’s…

Aug 11

July 2023

#84: another freaking bridge

You are on the bridge and you are going to be on the bridge until you get to this other side. And then guess what happens when you get to the other…

Jul 28

#83: embracing imperfection

Everything in life, including us, is in a state of flux. Change is the only constant, everything is transient, and nothing is ever complete. By…

Jul 21

Your 20s are not the best years of your life. If you live life correctly the general path should be: 20s pain and suffering, 30s tons of excitement…

Jul 13

#81: a break from worrying

An initial period of concentration—conscious, directed attention—needs to be followed by some amount of unconscious processing. The key to solving a…

Jul 7

June 2023

#80: more intention, less trying

If you intend to do a task, it will be done unless it can’t be. Trying to do a task means almost the opposite: if there’s a way it can remain undone, it…

Jun 30

It’s become apparent to me that much of my own and other people’s internal suffering is downstream of a lack of self-love. Everything from self-doubt…

Jun 23

#78: being untidy

Letting it all be untidy means dropping my ideas about how it should go so I can more fully lean into how it’s actually going. Letting it all be untidy…

Jun 15

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