Be bored more often.
Go for long walks. Meditate. Journal your thoughts. Read new books. Spend time alone without devices. You would get to understand yourself a lot much better. Your brain gets the best ideas when it is left to wander.
In those quiet moments, you'll uncover clarity and inspiration that can't be found in constant stimulation.
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Not dying.
Just logging off.
Getting a job no one cares about.
Growing tomatoes.
Writing poems in the margins of a notebook no one reads.
Not as a failure.
But as a kind of freedom.
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“i asked chatgpt—“
okay well i asked the moon and she said you’re a fucking loser for that
I might get slightly bashed for this one—but just my personal intake;
Can we please stop giving the “universe” credit for what GOD is doing?
It’s not the stars aligning — it’s the Savior making a way.
Doors don’t just open on their own. That’s GOD.
Let’s start calling it what it is and giving honor where it’s due.
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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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> If you’re trying to decide how to do good, and you only consider options that sound reasonable and normal to most people, you probably won't end up with the conclusion that we should donate huge amounts of our income to people abroad.
Sorry what? That's exactly what I think you would conclude.
Really enjoyed a lot of this piece, but the final paragraph seemed to suddenly jump to a weird conclusion ("you can't think bednets are important unless you also think AI is important").
Maybe we're talking about different things, but as a quick check: if we commissioned representative polling in the UK and asked 'Do you agree that people should donate at least 10% of their income to people in other countries?', what percentage of respondents do you think would choose 'Strongly agree'? I think it would be a low percentage because this is a weird thing to think.
I'm pretty uncertain on that, maybe not strongly agree but I could see lots of agrees. People thinking "yes, that's a good thing to do that I don't personally do", perhaps similar to if you asked if people should fly less. Although I'd want to be explicit it's via a charity in the question.
If you asked 'do you think people donating at least 10% of their income to charities helping people in other countries is a reasonable thing to do?' I think you'd get majority yes.
How about 'a reasonable and normal thing to do'? And then how do you think it would compare to things like 'volunteering for a local charity', 'donating to a political party you support', 'campaigning against local buildings being destroyed', etc.? I think the EA stuff would be the least likely to be considered reasonable and normal.
I'd think more people donate money to charities than donate to political parties, volunteer for charities, or campaign. So it seems more normal.
Absolutely fascinating insight into a subculture most of us never get anywhere close to. Honest and reflective. (Don’t bother reading the comments. Ugh, people.)
Very strange feeling to agree with nearly every take on a long piece covering several trends, disabusing me of all notions of uniqueness and individuality. Rough day on substack.
