July

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If you're lucky -- you get 'Aligned and Comfortable' If you're lucky and willing -- you get 'aligned and uncomfortable'

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I've been thinking about this 2x2 alignment / comfort matrix: 1. Comfortable and unaligned - this is the most common case for most things that you'd operate out of. It's not the most aligned, but often you're equipped to handle it 2. Unaligned and uncomfortable - this is the worst case scenario, you're doing something that you don't really ultimately agree with, and it is helping you grow, but - not in the direction you're excited about 3. Aligned and comfortable - this is a good scenario, where you're doing something that is ideally good. It's just that if you wait, and do this, it'll happen but it's at the whim of your circumstances, you either need to be lucky, or wait it out 4. Aligned and uncomfortable - this is the best case scenario - you are doing something that is ultimately aligned with who you are, but you are also doing something, that isn't just simply up to the whim, you're trying things out and getting feedback. You aren't waiting for the best time to do things

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Should we make stickers like this - and put them in boxes or make them available for people? Would you want them?

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I'm a big fan of Palace Been listening to "Greyhound" on repeat Also Palace:

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Here’s the sticker that we’re putting on the devices. This one is a teet

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Sometimes I plan to read things, and I don’t read them Sometimes I don’t plan to read things And I read them faster than I can read them

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Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony “Not only do we not see the Sirens but we can't even make out the heavens anymore.”

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Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke

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Fear is the mind killer. Truly.

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I think about psychoanalysis was a discipline that emerged after the Industrial Revolution - in some way the more “time we save for ourselves” or the more we have “time to think” about who we are how are mind works and other non survival oriented questions regardless of whether that’s bad or good Previously, in each historical time period we had less time to think about things. we needed to do to move physically and honestly I think moving is a way to let go of emotions

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Though let’s be real - self actualizing actually sucks Defense mechanisms are not defense only against pain but defense against pain that’s created from change more often than not

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Few people want to self actualize But everyone wants to be YouTuber when they grow up

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benefits to therapy vs not I think therapy is ultimately not about solving your emotional problems but rather it’s about going to gym but for your emotions. Building muscles that can enable you to lift different things. If you don’t want to get jacked (emotionally) it’s kind of a waste of time in the same way someone who’s really interested in orthonology is going to get really soil science. Just different areas to focus on.

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“One seems to oneself transfigured, stronger, richer, more complete; one is more complete… It is not merely that it changes the feeling of values; the lover is worth more"

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I loved this book so

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Me watching the AI wars:

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Wiring up buttons on to back components today

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I think it's a return to romanticism that is next -- departure from the ennui that being post-postmodernist creates. We have no choice but to return to yearning when the object that which we build our meaning on no longer offers substance. Modernism was a destruction of ornamentation of thought and design, and post-modernism was a rejection of minimalist as an idea because well who cares how we put it together man

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I remember reading something along the lines of when you talk to someone, and they say something eloquent and interesting and you find out later on that they wrote about it and throughly thought about it already and that’s why you can say something interesting — and that thought has stuck with me

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Great book get the physical copy

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