Words that are progressing to thoughts. All unearned wisdom is my own.

Relationships are not the sum but the product of two people. Your great vulnerabilities and strengths are not added but multiplied. — 6/8/2026

People are forcing functions. You should care more about what they want from you than what you want in them. Would you be happy if you became what they wanted? — 6/6/2026

In moments of grief, we find ourselves blessed with a special kind of suffering: a pain that’s so powerful that it reminds us that we are, in fact, alive. — 5/30/2026

Spanish conquistadors wasted their whole life looking for the fountain of youth. In the pursuit of everlasting life, they lost the only one they truly had.

The fountain of youth overflows with the lives lost pursuing it. — 5/14/2026

Every technology removes a barrier between what is in the heart and what is in this world. We inch closer to seeing what we desire. Do we desire to see what we desire? Do we even desire what we desire? — 4/9/2026

A sufficiently detailed question is indistinguishable from understanding. — 4/5/2026

The best language for communicating an apology is action. — 4/2/2026

You say you want peace, but you complain that you’re bored. You love ambient noise. You distract yourself with electronic trinkets.

Your behaviors defy your tongue. You don’t desire peace. You want low effort pleasure. — 1/28/2026

Pity is an interesting feeling because it reveals all the things you take pride in. Self-pity makes no sense because it’s taking pride in things that you don’t have. — 12/25/2025

Is this world enough for you? — 12/23/2025

Every day your yesterday dies. Your tomorrow must rise and be born again. Stagnation is suicide. — 12/23/2025

We stand in the shadows of our future. — 12/23/2025

We’re all desperately trying to crack the mystery of our death. We spend our whole lives asking one question: how are we going to die? Once we find out, we change the question: why? — 12/23/2025

Obesity led to dieting. VR led to IRL. Oversupply creates a demand for scarcity. — 12/14/2025

A good teacher will teach you the right answers. An excellent teacher will teach you the right questions. — 11/8/2025

It’s hard, but not that smart. — 10/23/2025

You say you want peace but what you really want is change. — 9/14/2025

Who said that the manifestation of all your desires would look like a person?

The collection of all your career, romantic, and personal ambitions is likely to take the form of a chimera, not a human.

The greatest constraint on our imagination for a life partner is that they have to be a person. — 8/23/2025

The best way to make something stand out is by making everything else look the same. — 8/18/2025

The weight of other people’s thoughts is heavy. Don’t be Atlas. — 7/25/2025

In intelligence, there is no free lunch. IQ points are just the memories of your ancestors accumulated in genes.

Either you learned it, or your ancestors did. — 7/25/2025

We have always been cannibalizing the value of intelligence by finding better ways of sharing it. First we had libraries, then we had search engines, and now we have even better non-deterministic language databases called language models. — 7/17/2025

There’s only one way to build confidence in other people. This happens to be the only way to build confidence in yourself. Keep your promises. — 7/1/2025

Do not look to anyone else to save you. You are the strongest of them all. — 6/23/2025

When you have too many thoughts, you mistake distraction for burnout. — 6/19/2025

Time is never wasted, just lost. We must be resourceful with our past. — 6/19/2025

Do you want what you want? — 6/12/2025

People are just problem specifications—we’re defined by our issues, not our solutions.

In some way, we don’t ever “solve” anything—we just introduce new, more powerful problems to defeat the old ones.

Choose wisely. — 5/22/2025

There are no mirrors, only windows. — 5/13/2025

What happens when you automate away all low entropy decisions? You’re only left with high entropy decisions—or, just deep uncertainty. This might explain some of the rise in anxiety levels. When there’s no default, there’s no direction. — 5/13/2025

People have a tendency to act when they should just observe. People have a tendency to observe when they should just act. People have a tendency to do both when they should do one at a time. — 4/11/2025

We spend most of our lives not knowing how we think. It is only when we put pen to paper that we see who we really are. Writing is a mirror for your mind. — 4/5/2025

Bullies are great at one on one. They tend to lose in team sports. — 3/16/2025

Growth is when you look back into the past and see memories of another person’s life. — 3/9/2025

Most folks treat their video game characters better than themselves. Would you have your protagonist sit on a couch and watch Netflix all day? — 3/8/2025

Your objectives define your identity. What you want to be becomes who you are. — 3/6/2025

One implication of the is/ought distinction is that the world as it is, will never be the world as it should be. — 2/28/2025

You don’t learn language. You learn communication. — 2/13/2025

The wise seek challenge. Challenge seeks the fool. — 2/12/2025

No matter which direction we go, we’ll have to walk on our own two feet. — 2/4/2025

We thought that getting rid of meritocracy would produce equality — instead what we got was a gerontocracy. — 1/26/2025

If you take nothing for granted, this world is fair.
If you take everything for granted, this world is fair.
If you take something for granted, this world is unfair.

Whatever you do, don’t take something for granted. — 1/17/2025

Your bones will grind to dust. All that will be left is what you once stood for. — 1/16/2025

Consider bouldering. You have rocks serving as objects to hoist your body. Life is spiritual bouldering. You have physical artifacts serving as objects for your spiritual struggles. The beauty of this analogy is that you can follow it all the way into the mountain. What are the rocks connected to? Well, more rocks. — 1/16/2025

Confront your fears. You might lose, but at least you won’t lose to yourself. — 1/14/2025

We don’t have nearly enough conversations to only learn from the interesting ones. — 1/14/2025

Life offers us a privilege: to choose your fear. Fear God or fear this world. — 1/11/2025

Disposition emerges from discipline. — 1/11/2025

Stepping into the light reveals your imperfections. — 1/11/2025

You can’t be yourself when you’re thinking about yourself. — 1/11/2025

Everyone starts walking together on the coast. Some lock arms and charge into the ocean together. Others let go and walk in by themselves. With time, the currents will wash us all into uncharted water—leaving us to wander alone. — 1/10/2025

Whichever direction is forward for you, may you go boldly. — 1/10/2025

People give advice that’s top of mind. Advice that’s top of mind is usually advice they’re giving themselves. — 1/10/2025

Truth takes time, sometimes longer than your lifetime. — 1/9/2025

You either believe in God or have a God complex. — 1/9/2025

Buddhists mistake the noble path for the noble lie. — 1/9/2025

The better you are, the weirder your problems. — 1/8/2025

You think you’ve built a castle but you’ve built a prison. — 12/28/2024

Moments have to find the right time. — 12/28/2024

The curse of having a good memory is that you have trouble moving on. — 12/28/2024

Consider Michelangelo’s Pieta.

Zoom into any small corner — you’ll find that a man had chipped away at a weird angle in what was once a perfect prism of marble. Zoom out, and you’ll see that the combination of these weird cuts produces one of the most timeless sculptures of humanity.

Many imperfections create perfection. — 12/1/2024

Money matters more when you have less. — 11/29/2024

We’re told that if you ‘dream hard enough’ that ‘anything is possible’. Of course anything is possible because it’s just your dream. — 11/29/2024

Great dreams are those tempered by reality. — 11/29/2024

You’re putting words to feelings and mistaking them for thoughts. — 11/26/2024

The only person who desires to be the ‘real you’ is the ‘fake you’. — 11/26/2024

You are what’s obvious to you. — 11/26/2024

Achievement is a function of will and power. He who has everything has everything to lose. He who has nothing has nothing to use. — 9/18/2024

Everything that is, was, or will ever be true — already is. We’re just finding the symbols to represent them. — 3/2024

Success is as much a function of what you’re good at as it is what you’re bad at. — ~2023