Forget ‘how to be a man’. Forget ‘how to be a freelancer’. Forget how to be a good conservative, liberal, or libertarian. Forget how to be a mentor or mentee. Forget how to be a philanthropist, environmentalist, atheist, reactionary, revolutionary, artist, or entrepreneur.
Category: Education Through Entrepreneurship
Reality is the Sum of Dreams
Every element of our experience – from norms and traditions, to languages and laws, to eggs and bacon – came about as a result of discontentment, vision (or dream), and belief. Someone had to dream of crossing an ocean as a precondition to building a ship. The city your were born in is likely one outgrowth of that dream.
When the Answer is in the Question
A good rule before you ask a question of others is to start with yourself. Obviously, asking yourself the question you want to ask doesn’t do a lot. You’ve probably already done it and not found a definite answer.
Why Do People Get Bored?
Why do people get bored? I’m really asking. That’s not rhetorical. It cannot be lack of access to interesting ideas. The world is pregnant with wonder.
Your Time is Sacred
When you make the choice, don’t look back and don’t pretend you didn’t. A unit of time lived in a way you don’t want is a unit of time unlived. You can’t get it back. You’re weaker because of it.
Good Escapism, Bad Escapism
I love escapism. But there’s a good kind and a bad kind. The good kind is when you escape from a narrow world into a broader one. You allow your mind to take you where your body, for whatever reason, cannot go. The bad kind is when you escape from the possibility of a broader world into a narrower, “safer” one.
Easy Answers are Not the Same as Simple Answers
I’m incredibly bullish on simple answers. I try to reduce all answers to their simplest form as quickly as possible. Simple is cold, clarifying, and enables understanding and action. I’m incredibly wary of easy answers. They’re siren song is powerful, and can lull me into a flabby stupor, mumbling about and blaming all the things that stroke my ego and feed vices like envy and anger.
The Power of Feeling Good
Minds are complex things. Too complex for their owners sometimes. We don’t always know how to get to the bottom of our frustrations, anxieties, fears, depression, or listlessness. The harder the conscious mind tries to unearth its subconscious sibling, the deeper the disconnection from good feelings gets.
The Wonder of the Hard Fork
Bitcoin split into two different versions back in August, after years of debate between insider experts, outsider novices, businesses, hobbyists, tech-types, ideological types, investor types, and everyone else you can imagine.
Markets in Everything
One of the coolest parts is the ease with which crypto enables markets in areas previously difficult to monetize. Micropayments alone – the ability to exchange fractions of a cent since fees are so low – open a world of possibility.