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when was the last time you genuinely surprised yourself

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“the light of consciousness will not be tied to a single planet subject to the inevitable hazards of a harsh and vast universe.”

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Worth a minute. Love it.

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Today is my daughter’s 15th birthday🎂 These past 15 years have been a long journey… She’s right in the middle of adolescence, but I think she’s starting to settle down a bit. Today, at least, I’d like to give myself some credit!

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“it seems to be a hallmark of the human species..abysmal communication skills”

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feels like it’s getting tougher by the day to get away w being closed minded and/or relying on the past to project into the future ofc human nature is human nature and we repeat patterns, but we also tend to think linearly time and time again and we haven’t been exposed to this rate of change in all of history, nearly impossible to predict how it all unfolds could make the case until very recently ppl could go entire careers or even entire lives without shifting too many of their beliefs and be just fine, “this is the way things are” was a fairly safe thought, things absolutely changed, but ppl usually had enough time to update their beliefs if it was necessary to do so could also make the “always has been” case when it comes to ppl who already operated on the foundation of changing their beliefs and had a much greater chance of “success” in the past - it’s not this cohort im thinking about while writing this tho to me it feels like the days of slow belief updates are over bc what is “valuable” and at what cost seems much more fragile now, unless the long term true value was already present, which imo is the case for very few things bc we don’t know what we don’t know so what to do? im not exactly sure, but i can confidently say im bullish on the ppl disrupting their own thought patterns and the ppl who are deeply contemplating the value they are getting, and the value they are providing the beautiful thing about all this is it will likely lead to more fair and efficient markets for goods and services - where lock in is much more difficult, and extraction without the appropriate value provided is much more difficult feels like a win for humanity. crypto i think will have a major role to play from the freedom/ownership standpoint, much less from the standpoint of those using crypto to extract as those margins shrink to zero or near zero i hope we see more public goods come about bc of this too, they could become easier to build and maintain in the yrs ahead due to how ai + crypto can work together in this way, ai increasing individual leverage of making things happen by the ppl who didn’t have the skills prior, and crypto increasing the individual ownership and durability next few yrs are gonna be crazy, hope to see it all unfold 🙏

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There are some roles, positions, or stations that you earn and keep. Others, you have to earn and continue earning in order to keep them. Most jobs used to be the former, but many of them are shifting to be the latter. The rate, drivers, and trajectory of change are forcing us to reconsider not just what is stable but how we define stability. The bar is going up. Now it’s moving to the side. Now the bar is a hula hoop?  Thankfully, there are some roles, positions, and stations that you receive and keep without having earned them. These are becoming ever more important as the defining characteristics of professional relationships become more unpredictable.

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Welding titanium and glass for a quantum gravity gradiometer!? Now you're talking.

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new snap just dropped

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"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes." –Carl Jung with all the earnestness at my command, i implore you to read that more than once, pause, and consider what you may be knowingly or unknowingly hiding from yourself. fear is a ruse, and you will (eventually) not regret taking courageous steps toward self-actualization. i promise 🫡

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losing a good pen feels really personal

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Attention is love, the love and care that you put in. I think, in many ways, it is all that ends up mattering. I think, in so many ways, everything and anything is just attention to detail, attention to the overall picture, where you choose to spend your time, your energy, life. All these things are attention, which is sort of a unit of measurement of directed life, and I think you attend to things that you love ultimately Even with AI I don't think many people have a problem even though it is in voice as such. The problem isn't with AI itself. To me the problem is something that doesn't have attention embedded in it. There's less care almost than what looks like it's presented with care and attention. The disjointedness that I feel or hollowness that I feel is something that looks like it was attended to but isn't actually attended. I think that's the part that feels like slop, which ultimately means it's not even about the technology. It's not even about anything really. Just how much do you attend to things and how much do you care and how much time are you willing to put into things that you care about? What are they? Where are they? Who are they? These are all honestly ultimately the things that matter I think. Whether you make things, whether you just simply attend to things, whether they're grand, make money or don't, or art, or just caring for others, a lot of it is downstream from attention intending itself.

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Every time I struggle with momentum, I remind myself that history is littered with people who were also tormented about it, but still made shit happen around the low points.

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I've been thinking about the kind of things I want to make I want to make things that are tactile but evokes memory. What does that mean? What I mean by that is that you can touch it and you can feel it and remember touching it somewhere at sometime. What we can touch, what we do, for me it often evokes= memories. We compare them to memories. Your favorite toy that you used to bring to bed as a touch and how soft it was. The feeling of a t-shirt the first time you wore it after you bought it. Shoes that fit just right, because you've used them for a while. Tactileness - is a sort of memory. When I touch objects, I love objects that remind me of a feeling of touching, it transports me through time to places and memories of long ago. Sometimes memories of the future, like this works in a place that doesn't even feel that out of place, but its never been there. This feeling of remembering, both of the past or the future gives the object a sort of 'rightness' in its existence. Almost like a justification of its existence that goes beyond simple utility, which of course it should serve utility too (nothing wrong with art tho) - but that feeling underneath should hum like a gentle ocean crashing over and over again in the distance.

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