Me: “I feel like my life is missing something” *goes outside* “Oh right”

Here's a list of people I want a beautiful life for: Donald Trump AOC Sam Bankman-Fried George Soros Netanyahu Elon Putin Everyone else alive You

The only thing sadder than someone who knows what they want but doesn’t go out and get it is someone who goes out and gets it, but doesn’t know what they want

Nobody wants to talk about this, but the actual age of consent has probably increased to ~25 Due to more disordered sexual norms & people having more divided wills, deciding whether to sleep with someone is now a much more complex decision

Stop trying to “get better at dancing” and start just getting the mind out of the way so that music can animate your body

I’m over a decade out of school and I still have nightmares of not having studied enough for the test wtf

The message can't just be love. It has to be a form of love that is street-smart, one that knows how to defend itself

Sometimes you need a coach or therapist, and sometimes you just need someone to invade your life and force to book the dr's appointment, finish the writing assignment, submit the job application, etc Does this sort of person exist for hire?

The dark patterns with tipping interfaces are crazy man. They use to list suggested tip amounts at 15, 18, & 20%. Now many of them are 20, 23, 25%. I just used one that had the 25% amount DEFAULT SELECTED and I almost moved to Europe on the spot

Here’s a story I have: Dating used to be more about advertising qualities that’d make you a good father or mother. Now it’s less about that, so people develop these qualities less. This has resulted in worse character development, because these qualities also just make you a good person

Having a lively community has made me lose almost all interest in festivals

Hey guys now that horny AI bots have been unleashed upon my beloved website here, I’m planning a slow transition to the orange site. I hope you will join me there

Not sure why the monogamy and nonmonogamy crowds are so at each other's throats on here? My crazy take is that different things work for different people 😮

I want there to be a laughing emoji that is less insanely effusive than this one: 😂 Give me one that's, like, a British laugh

What are the best jobs for people who are extremely generally talented but burned out? I've known many people in this position (including myself from 2019-2022)

I feel like 90% of dopamine-chasing behavior is motivated by avoiding one's own unpleasant thoughts and feelings

“Negative” emotions become superpowers once fully felt in the presence of god Anger becomes clarity and momentum Fear becomes thrill and responsiveness Disgust becomes discernment and appreciation of interpenetration Sadness becomes reverence and compassion

I'm mostly convinced that ideologies and other memeplexes act just like organisms ("psychofauna"). But I simultaneously believe that getting too immersed in that narrative will make you suffer schizo-like delusions hmmm

Isn’t it weird that for 1000s of years, we were like “oh, acorns, those are a symbol of sudden inspiration, and mountains, those are symbols of fidelity” and then, sometime last century, we just completely stopped doing that with everything? Now a mountain is just a mountain

I want to host a “MAGA + libs” party where the two sides are not allowed to talk politics. Instead they do an activity, like boardgames. I want to witness the dawning horror as they find themselves getting along

A cult is anything which alienates you from the rest of society done that's what a cult is

I love NYC for my own reasons, but I also feel like it's the only suitable place for my work. My ambition is to spread pluralistic cultures, and there is no culture more pluralistic on earth than NYC

Psychedelics help with the developmental stage of consciousness expansion. But if someone is still constantly doing them for years, it’s a bit like the person who keeps going back to school for new degrees – like, dude, time to stop deferring the rest of adulthood

I’ve lived my life as if I could be anything: a scientist, an entrepreneur, a monk, and more. But for the past 5yrs I’ve had to accept that I’m primarily an artist and there’s no escaping that

I suspect a lot of people are under the false assumption that mutual understanding is required for connection, and that this is severely limiting the set of people they can enjoy interacting with

Me: god show me how to be closer to you!!! God: try less hard Me: like this? 😖 God: no like this: ____ Me: like this? 😫 God: no. Just relax Me: why have you forsaken meeee

What do you do when you're in the mood to work but you're too tired to do anything of consequence

I know a few 40 year olds who look like 20 or 30 year olds and the common denominator seems to be something like "capacity for hypomania"

When the summer humidity drops I gain 20 IQ points

It’s too bad that tentacles have such a creepy rap. It’s actually good to have tentacles

We each grow or shrink in the eye of the beholder, so it behooves us to meet & spend more time around those who perceive our greater selves

Ppl think I’m some sort of wildman but the truth is that I’m obsessed with good etiquette, and how it improves our parties and our cities. When I do break etiquette, it’s because I believe that a piece of etiquette has stepped out of its proper role (which is bad meta-etiquette)

Did you know that romantic kissing is not universal? It took until the 20th c to become a global default. There are reports of cultures watching white people kiss & responding w disgust. Makes me want to try all the kissing alternatives. Maybe we didn’t even choose the best one!

It’s crazy how many unconscious fears come down to “if I don’t do X then a group of people will be rallied against me”

Transformative workshop but instead of aligning your chakras, meditating, and liberating your emotions it's learning how to be reliable and offer others tangible material support

It should give a longevity-seeker pause that there has ~never been a hero out of myth or media who sought immortality for its own sake

When I have an awkward interaction with a foreigner, it's unpleasant for both of us, but not a big deal. So why is it than, when I have an awkward interaction with an American, the stakes feel existential, like one of us will need to kill ourselves in shame?

Two of the main life skills are: Courage to leave situations that are bad for you Tenacity to find/create & commit to situations that make you more the person you enjoy being

I wish it were easier to connect with our glorious cybernetic hivemind without staring at a screen. Who’s building this??

Sometimes it really is as simple as sending love and appreciation to what ever parts of you are suffering. Annoying

Which individuals had the absolute biggest positive impact in history? Give me your top 3

What a beautiful mercy that when the mind is genuinely empty, joy is there on tap, without any need to create it

I genuinely don't know whether The Enlightenment was one of the worst things to happen to culture or one of the best?

Part of the reason I think we need a golden age hyperstition is that I regularly meet people who are super talented but massively demoralized. However within a few months of contact with a more optimistic crowd, they often become massively generative

Some of you aren’t wahoo!-maxxing and it shows

One way you can help event hosts is by publicly RSVPing “going” as soon as possible. Doing so can lead to a social proof cascade that causes other cool people to also RSVP. This is especially true if you’re in the first 10

I'm convinced that one of the best things you can do for your life is to learn to enjoy commutes. If you can enjoy commutes it opens up all the riches of a city and you can be friends or lovers with people who live 1hr away

It's interesting that "the bread line" has turned from a phenomenon of the extremely poor to one of the extremely privileged waiting outside of a bougie influencer bakery

I rarely see people be fixed by their partner's project to fix them. However, I have seen several people be fixed by a partner's big love

I need a dude friend or a dude-like female friend who I can talk about girls with. All my male friends are either sensitive artist/intellectual types or wholesome wifeguys