3/27/2025

1:56pm

Seeing Charles Barkley doing a Fan Duel commercial hammers home, how much money these gambling companies are willing to throw in to essentially create addiction peddling for sports and how this short-sighted cash grab is going to cause everyone to lose sight of pure enjoyment of these competitive events. But then again, maybe it's gambling is a problem as old as time.

1:09pm

Competition is not, "I'm going to dominate you". It's more playful, collaborative. It's more, "I'm going to set this level, can you match that"? To compete with each other, not against each other. (Via Bill Murray, Hot Ones - talking about improv comedy ethos)

7:45am

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." - Mark Twain

3/26/2025

7:27am

Have you ever thought that because our brains aren't used to this modern day abundance and frictionlessness, and that it will make up problems because it thinks it needs to stay vigilant for our survival?

3/19/2025

11:31am

Its important to consider the the appropriate contexts for technologies, asking ourselves if this usage or behavior brings us closer together or futher apart. Or if its usage comes at the expense of other's well-being. Tools inevitably change how we interact with the world. We need to build technology that enables experiences and opportunities to bring us closer together.

3/12/2025

6:58am

"Among all the diseases of the mind there is none more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery." - Richard Steele

This is the danger of social media mind rot.

3/4/2025

1:02am

Its not about being perfect it's about sharing your growth and journey with others

3/3/2025

2:31pm

When I talked to Michael about feelings of helplessness with current state of the country and politics, he replied that he thinks that are moving away from monoculture, but there has never been a more opportune time to build a subculture that can be a force for good. This aligns with James Clear's notion of changing the world in concentric circles; starting with self (me), then community (people like me), then globally.

3/1/2025

8:05am

Get it into prose. Encapsulate into paragraphs (building blocks). Distill down the theme and concept of that paragraph. Gather the materials, sort and categorize them, then worry about constructing the building.