things i like 🧵

i quote this everyday

Josh Safdie directed this. So perfect.

There is a certain type of person everywhere now, especially online. He consumes endless information every day: philosophy, psychology, productivity, spirituality, neuroscience, business, self-improvement, history. He knows a little about everything and deeply experiences almost nothing. His entire identity becomes built around understanding instead of living. He watches videos about confidence instead of speaking confidently. Reads about discipline instead of becoming disciplined. Studies relationships instead of learning how to love. Consumes motivational content instead of taking action. He feels intelligent because he is constantly mentally stimulated. But stimulation is not transformation. Most of the time, knowledge becomes emotional protection. Reality is unpredictable. Reality humiliates. Reality exposes weakness. Books and ideas do not. Inside information, he can continue imagining himself as intelligent, deep, insightful, different from ordinary people. So he remains trapped in preparation. He constantly feels as if he is "becoming" someone, while his real life remains strangely untouched. He develops sophisticated language for problems he never confronts directly. He can explain human behavior beautifully while being unable to handle ordinary discomfort, rejection, uncertainty, loneliness, or risk. He slowly turns life into observation instead of participation. The internet rewards this personality heavily. He receives validation for sounding aware rather than becoming capable. Eventually, he begins confusing self-analysis with growth and information with wisdom. But beneath the intelligence usually exists the same thing: fear. Fear of failure. Fear of embarrassment. Fear of reality answering back. Because action destroys fantasy. The moment he truly acts, he can no longer hide inside potential.

Someone son btw

Me when I'm being tickled by the demon from the eternal abyss and suffering

the cuica (that “whoop” sound) on this song has to be the most tasteful usage of the instrument outside of brazil in history

i’m still cooking on plenty of stuff that stays true to the root of okuri traditional overengineered #designtwitter

Just clocked in to work

holy 2001 mog

I watched the backroom

team call

I love Andor understood how great pushing buttons is and just had dozens and dozens of shots of it.

スケッチ 止まった

RT @kkakkpotato: AI

In most professions, when you hit the 90th percentile in technical skill, the best use of your time is getting 90th percentile soft skills the best barbers are therapists the best photographers are comedians the best engineers are iconoclastic cult leaders that inspire their team with a vision nobody else can see, and even fewer can beleive stop maxing out your CAD skills, and start dreaming bigger!

so calming

RT @sbodrojan: this made me so sad