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“i want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head” - John Updike

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agentic sages: Feynman, B. Franklin, Steve Jobs (late), Churchill, Marcus Aurelius, MLK, Mandela, Da Vinci agentic fools: Augustus, Caesar, Napoleon, Alexander, Rockefeller (early), Elon, Trump, Hitler spiritual bypassers: Krishnamurti, Tolle, Thoreau, Hesse, Schopenhauer

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love the idea of an "antilibrary" as a daily reminder of how much you don't know "It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy. It'd be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones." — Umberto Eco

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you are not bored, you are boring

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all you can lose by being real is something fake

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you're not stuck with anything, unless you stick with it

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"im in this photo and i don't like it"

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"nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less" - marie curie

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your way is the way

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poor modern man he can neither intensely focus nor deeply relax

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"a man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance" hunter s. thompson

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the joy is in the making

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create like a kid edit like a scientist

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“when we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago” — nietzsche

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Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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many people's problems stem for the default reaction to "don't know what to do" (bored, idle, in doubt) being to eat, drink, drug and scroll instead of just going on a walk

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