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Writing a lot allows you read access to the world Reading a lot allows you write access to the world
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Also the other side of the coin to writing a lot - is honestly just reading. Reading not because it’s a cool but just reading whatever your heart desires. I remember in 2022 I read a bunch of books that July from 2021 would have thought were stupid, but who cares - the point is just follow the thread You don’t have to justify anything to anyone except who you are today
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https://meltt.bandcamp.com/track/only-in-your-eyes
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Writing has made me a better person. It’s made me more myself
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Writing more recently has changed my life I really started to take writing seriously around ~2022. Honestly, around the time I started Farcaster. I started writing, a lot. I was terrible before, and I've definitely gotten better. I wrote about ~300 pages of journaling last year. Why writing has changed me: writing and writing has taken me to my ideas to its natural conclusion, to places I didn't expect. Clarified things for me in ways I didn't fully understand - but also maybe knew all along
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Yeah no I don’t think that’s supposed to happen
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My favorite TOPS song is: Evening Mostly because it reminds me of Dane Reynolds surfing video from like early 2010s I think it’s by the pier, C street maybe? This song reminds me of surfing. I think in another life if I was different I’d probably would just have surfed and done nothing else, or maybe it’s just a romantic view of life.
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Unreal https://x.com/mastronomers/status/1892264526126489985?s=46
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There’s a short story waiting to be written (or already exists) about someone who builds a Time Machine who misses the past to go back there; only to hate it and not find what they were looking for there
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It's sort of like asking: - Does the river flow because it rains on the mountains? - Or does it rain because the river flows into the ocean?
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Songs that one listens to follows the contours of your emotional landscape
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Most of the things that make you feel alive You don't find them but they usually find you
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There is something implicit in this: in many ways - we need new words to describe the times that are yet to come We need new phrases, new feelings, to describe the coming ages, because new ages are going to require new ways to describe the times that are yet to happen (incredible, I imagine).
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In many ways, how we communicate words to each other matter. Especially the words we use to describe periods of history, or moments in time. Take "The Enlightment" or "The Renaissance" - these words are now loaded with history itself (get it) and that means we can't use it collectively to describe another period. They start to form an identity on its own that we can't unsubscribe to mimetically
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I've started waking up at 5~5:30am recently
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So -- 12th century Mongolia sucked to be honest Part of the reason Mongolia created nomadic people is the lack of arable land (think endless steppes, super harsh winters, very unforgiving) So people would have to band together to hunt, and to live together by herding smaller animals. So if you were ostracized, you pretty much had no food and couldn't live off of the land. Speaking of which, when Genghis Kahn was around 9 years old, his father, Yesugei, a tribe leader was poisoned by a rival tribe, the Tatars. They get backstabbed by Taichiud (a trusted ally turned betrayer) -- and their whole family gets ostracized from the tribe. From there it turns into a survival horror story -- with his mother Hoelun and his siblings to survive alone on the steppe -- no livestock, no protection, no way to live, essentially. They were reduced to eating wild plants, roots, and small animals. Brutal life. The story goes on obviously but my point is 12th century Mongolia was no joke
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Do things your 5yo self would be unbelievably stoked on
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We have made so many mistakes so far with how we’ve been building roc camera - (I’ve already I’ve lost count…) but wouldn’t change what we committed to (doing it in house) for the world.
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Imagine seeing this and not feeling awe
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