Every act of inauthenticity bleeds your energy. It's "waste heat" in your human combustion engine — an elective tax on unbridled expression. Rage against it.

A self-help book with just one page that says, “You already know what to do”

Art is the sawdust of an examined life.

If your curiosity isn’t eventually esoteric-maxxing, then it’s not your curiosity

It’s authenticity all the way down.

Absolute love is borderless-ness. It’s tearing down the walls that separate you. It’s unification — of aims & wants. It’s allowing yourself to be wholly steeped in the other, without bias or reservation. It’s “the sound of no shore.”

We must love not only occasionally, but forever. — Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov

Dostoevsky is a ChatGPT wrapper for The Bible.

Never make a deal with a toddler their future self will refuse.

Few worse feelings than inadequacy in a job you don’t even want to do.

Whenever we get an AGI president we’ll kinda come full circle on that bit in 1 Samuel where the Israelites demanded God give them a king.

There has never been a better time in the history of the universe to be curious.

“If he who is organized by the divine for spiritual communion, refuse and bury his talent in the earth, even though he should want natural bread, shame and confusion of face will pursue him throughout life to eternity." — William Blake

How has no rapper taken "Jung Carl"?

Your boundaries are your quest. — Rumi

Ep #27 |Tom Morgan we talk about curiosity, the hero's journey, a science of meaning & reality's movement towards complexity, what is value, & more 🟢 spoti.fi/3QeUPgC 🍎 apple.co/3q8Ivnl 🌎 bit.ly/3Y8zyH6

ep #23 is up Justin Welsh & i talk about intentional lifestyle design, long term thinking, playing your own game, content creation, imitation, status, the value of travel, & more. 🟢 spoti.fi/4499z4M 🍎 apple.co/3COGm2Q 🌎 bit.ly/434Rnb5

ep #22 is up! one of my favorites Molly Mielke & i talk about "career sunk cost fallacy", agency, investing in ppl, being famous among friends, freedom, commitment, & introspection vs. action. 🍎 apple.co/42Qr5Jy 🟢 spoti.fi/3NkMnsT 🌎 bit.ly/3Xm6oEf

ep #21 of the pod is up! Adam Ryan and i talk about Workweek, the b2b knowledge/creator space, & thinking long term. 🍎 apple.co/3qHtsB4 🟢 spoti.fi/3Xac2t1 🌎 bit.ly/3Xay132

ep #20 of audience of one is live! Zach Pogrob & i talk about finding & sustaining your obsession, his inspirations, cultivating a long term mindset, building a brand as big as disney, & more. 🍎 apple.co/43HsNhH 🟢 spoti.fi/3Nh8QZ5 🌎 bit.ly/42nIbOJ

ep #19 is up @andrewrose.bsky.social & i talk about community building & bringing friends together, isolation, implementing the right social technologies, balancing contentment & ambition, & more. 🍎 apple.co/3WJyDwb 🟢 spoti.fi/3CnzWrr 🌎 bit.ly/45FXG7f

ep #18 is up @richdecibels.bsky.social helps people grow high-trust communities & decentralised orgs. we talk about microsolidarity, belonging, optimism, cooperation, agency, commitment, & finding what you're good at. 🍎apple.co/3WBKqfK 🟢spoti.fi/3MXnkgH 🌎bit.ly/4287G6c

@jay.bsky.team any plans to support this kind of user-generated labeling/categorization?

ep #17 is live Gurwinder Bhogal & i talk about writing, bugs in our psychological software, how we can better understand & manage our emotions and reactions, & the pursuit of finding truth. 🍎 apple.co/3psWe7K 🟢 spoti.fi/3LWlKty

ep #16 of audience of one is up alpha barry is the founder of temple & monolith. we talk about his vision, the challenges & opportunities of building cities, why he’s building in africa, nation vs. network states, & more. 🍎 apple.co/3LVG1AI 🟢 spoti.fi/3nsu10j

ep #16 of audience of one is up alpha barry is the founder of temple & monolith. we talk about his vision, the challenges & opportunities of building cities, why he’s building in africa, nation vs. network states, & more. 🍎 apple.co/3LVG1AI 🟢 spoti.fi/3nsu10j

new internet friends - i’m looking for a part time gig so i can pay the bills while focusing on some side projects & podcasting if you know anyone who is looking for help in edtech, future of work, creator space, web3, or related space, please share (or like to get more visibility)

ppl who find a way to make every convo/relationship about them are energy vampires & should be avoided like the plague

stop thinking about making money & start trying to create value

ep #15 of audience of one is live @visakanv.com & i talk about writing, networks, scenes/subcultures, deviants, being introspective, & more. 🍎 apple.co/3MU6cZp 🟢 spoti.fi/3owfd0z

nothing quite like recess energy what's the adult equivalent?

“he could leave at any time. if his was more than just a vague ambition, if he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there's no way we could prevent him. i think what distresses you (…) is that ultimately truman prefers his cell”

moderation for social media is impossible moderation for a social media protocol seems… even harder? on top of putting aside your biases/philosophy, there’s a bit of game theory to decide what should happen at the protocol vs app level h/t to the @bsky.app team if they figure it out

stayed in a farm house in rural sweden last summer right on the baltic. sea on one side, forest & meadows everywhere else. sauna on the dock, walking trails, cold plunges, sailing, a/c in the place. closest i’ve come to the perfect marriage of technology & nature.

def a techno-optimist but also empathize with the amish

when are we getting the succession prequel, "ascent"?

ep #14 of audience of one is up @noampomsky.bsky.social writes the bookbear express substack. we talk about writing, reading, vulnerability, finding "your thing", how AI will impact dating & relationships, & more. 🍎 apple.co/3KU3zpb 🟢 spoti.fi/3UwdUuE

seeing lots of “follow to get followed” happening & wonder how that impacts/misrepresents the early graph & engagement

sand mandalas are probably the best metaphor for existence i’ve come across creation, beauty, intricacy, impermanence

ep #14 of audience of one is up @noampomsky.bsky.social writes the bookbear express substack. we talk about writing, reading, vulnerability, finding "your thing", how AI will impact dating & relationships, & more. 🍎 apple.co/3KU3zpb 🟢 spoti.fi/3UwdUuE

no matter how much i worry about all the work i (think i) need to get done, i always seem to get the important stuff done and yet i don't think i'll ever internalize the lesson

asking for advice is usually just busyness & a distraction from actually doing the thing

i still want a platform that supports multiple identities/interests well, like a cross between reddit & blue sky where I can: ▪️surface 3-10 topics I post about, ▪️tag my post with the topics, ▪️subscribe to other ppl’s topics, ▪️access feeds for those topics

how do we create new node connections here instead of just replicating our twitter graph?

love when i hear or read someone talk about a "truth" that i've heard/read about elsewhere &/or arrived at myself it's especially fun when they use foreign terms or metaphors to describe it, but even before they finish you recognize what they're talking about

surrender to your gut

“oh, he's heavily fuckin' delayed”

this is one of the things i’m most curious to see play out… to what degree do our new social graphs here end up resembling our old ones on twitter, especially without an option to port it over

@jay.bsky.social has anyone built an app on top of the protocol for (continuously) porting over your twitter social graph?