chopin military polonaise
Reaching out to my younger self to say "it happened".
Reaching out to my younger self to say "it happened".
Practicing Mozart for a thousand hours means something different than whistling a tune.
We used to compose in solitude, without industry or recordings.
Hard to understand past experiences when you're constantly subjected to new things.
"Do good, without expecting gratitude, or looking at who."
less metadata, more feeling
music and bodies in trance
"Trying to unite separate networks with what we do."
Health is not the goal. It's just a step towards feeling good in situations you create.
Unlock possibility for negotiation and understanding by just saying it.
Stress over being healthy can be unhealthy.
Work on it morning, afternoon, and night.
Inherently unsustainable if it needs a hundred percent of my time.
Prelude as engine, fugue as debate.
"In case I win the lottery, I want the ticket in my back pocket."
Understand what's important to the other side, and have empathy for it.
"We worship the greats while ignoring geniuses in front of us until they're gone."
Power wants you to consume instead of create, to be addicted rather than to enjoy.
What process gives you belongs only to you.
Present what you want as what they also want.
If it was guaranteed to feel good, I wouldn't be open to whatever happens.
Be patient without reducing them.
Speak and wait for your body to catch up.
Community is more than people in a space.
Turn watching into a choice.
If a part of the body is sick, the body is sick.
Would you force someone into a relationship?
"If a book's pages became increasingly similar until you were just reading the same page repeatedly, you'd probably put it down."
tuned out of tweets
"people without school who know the language of nature"
If there's evolution in the world, then truth also evolves.
When one person doesn't want it, two don't fight.
"I'd rather be a reference to my community than recognized by a title that's specific to one context."
Practice in order to feel good.
the mechanics of augmenting human thought
Not ordinary to take hard decisions that no one around would take.
Seeking truth means addressing contradictions that you can't resolve, which might be less comfortable.
Feeling like you are responsible for and to the world gives you the strength to see past false narratives.
Go abroad to lose local political representation.
Languages help you empathize instead of feeling offended.
stay updated, scale big, or you'll get taken out.
less on social media, more in places I control
feels good to improve so much without a big 'redesign'.
friendly email addresses for bots
one surname is not "where you're from".
with Jack Rusher (guitar) and Andrey (bass)
Skip pages, read anything, don't read that, read anywhere, don't finish, repeat, read aloud…
three months in a place to feel relaxed
Everything still works great and I've never stopped using them.
a notepad you can't edit