Against slop(py judgment)
Pangram can't tell you what's worth reading.
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How to make something great
Greatness begins with stick-to-itiveness.
Substance over speculation
Amplifying the good, true, and beautiful
Courage is unavoidable
CS Lewis famously said that courage is “the form of every virtue at the testing point.” But the more I think about it, courage only looks that way to a (weaker) outside observer.
Curiosity pulls you towards authenticity & abnormality
Socio-cultural forces are entropic and drive you to the mean.
On Identity
Identity is stagnation, calcification.
It's authenticity all the way down
Everything you want is downstream of alignment with "what is"
All of heaven in a single room
Stretched out on the couch, feet up.
Taste Is What's Left
Blue whales & a thousand disgusts
Ep. 057 - John Koenig on Sorrow, Identity, Contradiction, & The Human Experience
John Koenig is the author of The New York Times Best Seller Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, a dictionary of made-up words for emotions that we all feel but don't have the words to express.