cortisol
deadline
coffee
caffeine
Work
lunch
boring
Twitter
Netflix
Hector watched the
cortisol
infused rats scuttling around.
People had places to be. And they had to have been there ten minutes ago.
deadline
s were past due. And the
coffee
was no longer hitting. Though they still needed the coffee. That was not up for discussion. Even when the
caffeine...
It happened quick. He never saw it coming. Never saw it happen even. In the movies you got to see how people mourned you. How your
death
brought people together even for just a weekend.
But in real life you just died. Went into the darkness. No way to see or...
McDonalds
coffee
Twitter
school
report card
paychecks
startup
He was a dumb kid. That's what everyone said. Rocks for brains. And they were probably right. He'd given up on
school
by the time he was ten years old when his
report card
started coming home with Ds and Cs rather than just Cs.
Church of Twitter
coworking space
Twitter
crypto
podcasts
self-help
gun
paramedic
book smart
He had good grades in college. Wasn't just one of those
book smart
kids, but actually had a decent head. Decent, but not great. He knew he wasn't the type to be able to start his own business and get rich. So he graduated and got a job.
Except for one month, I wrote everyday for 12 years. I remember vividly the
winter
afternoon I stopped such a habit. It was a few days after my 36th birthday. I'd taken the day off from work. And just like on any day off from work I had been lazily...
He is on
Twitter
just search for him by his name Basile Samel.
He's started some projects that were in support of writing, then shifted into some productized service where his team wrote technical articles for yoru company to boost seo engagement.
but now i believe he's working full-time trying to support entrepreneurship at the Cat farm -- which is an alternative living place.
Twitter
white collar
Spotify
Naval Ravikant
Gary Vee
apoclypse
social justice warriors
zombie
white male
You would check
Twitter
where other likeminded folks would be complaining about the current
apoclypse
. The narrative had done a 180 since last week. Back then all the educated office workers -- many of them not in the office anymore -- were proclaiming the tragedy of the zombies. How...
I realized only after reading these comments that I asked the wrong question lol. But I was happy to receive those answers anyways as they interest me as well.
My cues are scrolling through
Twitter
and
Hacker News
even after I've already gone through the entire chronologically ordered timeline.
However my question I meant to ask was... not about the cues but what are you resisting leaning into?
Dempsey was pounding the
Apple
Magic Keyboard connected wirelessly to his
iMac
when the door flung open. How could such a beautiful sight stir such fright in him. Had she found out about last night's escapade?
money
newsletter
GDPR
Twitter
Facebook
financial
idea
publishing
A few minutes ago, I was sitting on the toilet when suddenly an idea struck. I finally had a name for my not-yet created
money
/
financial
newsletter
.
Without further ado, I introduce: financial-idiot.blog
No, there isn't a landing page yet, nor is there anything other.
The promise of
web 3.0
or
web3
is cool. Basically it argues for a shift in the way our digital infrastructure is organized so that not only the investors/founders/creators have equity and profit from that infrastructure but also the users.
There's great power in the idea of feeling like a user...
For me the worst part about the internet is the best feature: infinite access to information.
By this point in my life I've figured out and accepted that the best type of day is not the kind that starts with consuming. It doesn't matter how good the podcast is or how...
Something about networking events makes you act different. Especially when around someone super successful. You start trying to think of interesting things to say. You begin feeling like the beginning lines of
Eminem
's Lose Yourself.
I've been around that rodeo enough now that I catch myself. You don't need...
Facebook
Twitter
web 2.0
topography
Tupac
Suge Knight
Illmatic
Limewire
This was before
web 2.0
. You didn't surf the net expecting most your information to come from one of the bigs like
Facebook
or
Twitter
. Instead you would visit these horribly designed websites with no sense of
topography
and often light-yellow or pitch black backgrounds. Something about that...
Twitter
Tim Ferriss
Joe Rogan
Gumroad
Bill Gates
Donald Trump
pseudonymous
My
Twitter
feed consisted mostly of what people would consider "money twitter".
Tim Ferriss
and
Joe Rogan
type of content. Libertarian, respectful of classical education while simultaneously prowling for new hacks, and bullish on individualism type of influencers and content.
Thinking for yourself is a tough one. Because it's so important yet at the same time the only way to think well for oneself is to be open to changing the way one thinks based on others'... especially wiser ones than us.
experience is a great one. I think often we delude ourselves into thinking we are getting a lot of experience.. but we're just scrolling through
Twitter
head nodding at things we already knew/experienced.
I once watched two people fall in love and it made me sad. One of them was my roommate, and I was sad because when it happened, I didn't feel anything.
We had all gone to high school together... somehow we were living in the same house. Ivan, the guy, fell...
Keni and Brandon have you heard anything about Magnesium. It's currently a big thing with a lot of guys on the Church of
Twitter
who claim that it's been great for their mood and sleep.
I honestly can't claim any horizon projects because I'm not working on anything at the moment that I have outcome based expectations for yet.
I do have general expectations for continuing to develop the world of
Westcity
and the characters within it... which I'm doing in the "I found the diaries of Greco" series, but even with that I see it more as practice than a thing I'm horizoning.
Let me know if I'm thinking of horizon projects different than you. I'm interpreting it as the biggest, active project that you are planning to complete.
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Similarly to the saving hte best part for later fallacy that writers make, I think you should just write it through. Write it through because then the real part begins. Finding what's wrong with it and why it sucks.
Most writers seem to do a better job with fixing bad writing then creating bad writing. Most writers refuse to write bad stuff so they sit with their phone in their hands staring at
reddit
or
Twitter
or motiviational
Youtube
videos instead.
Trust me, your story's going to suck really bad. No matter how great you think it is in your head. So get it out and then let's make it good.
Facebook
Twitter
Adagia
Product Hunt
Angel List
Adagia Tribes
Even the big spaces like Twitter have their own corners within them. The difference between big places and small corners though is that the latter continues to design intentionally for the specific corner crowd.
Product Hunt
and
Angel List
was designed specifically from the get-go for a niche case. A...
Netflix
New Yorker
Twitter
Jeannie Hammond
Balloon House
Gmail
Later while alone it what I wanted when around Jeannie became clear. It went beyond her flesh, past the mere material -- just as how the story of a book is worth more than the ink and paper that contain it,
I'd been daydreaming too much about my meetings with...
Tim Subiaco
will always be a legend to me. He was one of the rare members who wrote fiction everyday. Almost all the other people couldn't manage it. They either were like me and got stuck by the allure of writing the more easy nonfiction or they just stopped showing...
I am starting to think that the things that make a business successful - boils down to the basic things that most of us need on an individual level.
Boom that's all it is. Organizations/businesses are there simply because it proved to be the best way to deliver some type of affect to humans. As in
Jack Dorsey
said it best that he was never trying to found a company when founding
Twitter
. It just got to the point where having a company was the only way to get Twitter to operate at the scale needed.
Now this is not to say that all incumbent businesses are pure and holy. Often the environment will be conducive to the growth and sustanence of lackluster organizations. This is where disruption is possible.
If you're lucky you'll get to live long enough that your lens' grows cloudy. It doesn't matter how sharp your base vision is before this gradual formation. Even if you were seeing 20/8 (the accepted max visual acuity for humans) the world will still appear obscured to you through
cataracts...
