There’s the real world and there are ideas and theories. There’s engaging in actual actions in the real world — and there’s engaging in ideologies, in theoretical explorations and fantasies. If you are serious about the real-world outcomes — you want to engage in real-world actions, receive real-world feedback, and prepare real-world response. …
Tag: Work
Relevant or Not
High quality / low quality — wrong dichotomy Original / Trite — wrong dichotomy Respectable / Dis-respectable — wrong dichotomy Relevant, or not — is the only metric How we love to IDEALISE, RATIONALISE, MAKE SENSE OF and MORALISE I don’t believe there is someone entirely free from this fault …
Accountability
The fact that so few are accountable makes one wonder if one even knows the meaning of ACCOUNTABILITY Let me explain There are two ways of doing something. OPTIMAL and NOT OPTIMAL The difference between the optimal and not optimal is often ambiguous. Particularly in creative acts. It is also often NOT …
“Passion” is Not an Idea, Not an Ideal
If you followed your passion you are likely naive But if you didn’t — don’t ask me why your life doesn’t seem to be worth it Go ahead and check the box on this imperative problem of SURVIVING, Then go do whatever the fuck you want If you are 1000% passionate about …
True Vision
Lasting vision is truly just a prison No one who CHANGES has a lasting vision No one who is concerned with what is real can abide to a lasting vision What is vision? Doesn’t vision imply SEEING? Is seeing a fixed state — or is it an endless process? Vision is seeing. One SEES …
Caught Between: EXPLORATION vs REPUTATION
Life is exploration. World is exploration. Progress is exploration. Discovery is exploration. Exploration comes before discovery. Before result. Before achievement. Before benefits. Before reputation Exploration is salient philosophically, spiritually. Results are subjective. Their relevance is merely relative. Exploration is a way of living, a lifestyle, a life’s philosophy. Fixation with result ruins …
Stealing Ideas
I will gladly steal the brilliant insights of greater then me and post them/ tweet them/ write a fucking book about them …as my own — because thats how little I care about looking good. Every idea known to men shall be repeated infinitely many times. You can’t really steal ideas. It’s like …
Harmony Instead Of Motivation
Perhaps 100 years from now all the hustle videos and motivation crap will be replaced with harmony videos. Hustle neither brings the happiness at the end of the road nor does it even accelerate the “growth”. You’d be shocked how much more productive is the FREE one. And how much happier. I’m saying this because …
Limitless Delusion
There’s no limit to delusion when you don’t test your believes against the real world. Inexplicably delusional delusion is simply an untested belief. Harbour beliefs long enough without testing them — and you WILL be crazy. The very definition of madness is this extreme divergence from reality. Seeing things? Hearing things? Your …
Dichotomy of “Following One’s Passions”
Following/ Not-Following one’s passions must be the most inimical false dichotomy there is. To follow one’s passion indiscriminately is to unawarely set oneself for a lifetime of failures and mediocrity — statistically unlikely ending with a miraculous success. To NOT follow one’s passion at all is to live a life of defeat, meaninglessness and …