Polly

GN

To me： 1. Be the “dumbest” in your circle — keep leveling up. 2. Stay hyped. Do what you love. 3. Have a vision. Know who you wanna become. 4. Enjoy the ride — the destination ain’t everything. 5. Know your weak spots & partner with people who crush those areas. 6. Don’t let material goals run your life. 7. Failure is part of the game. Reflect, learn, move on.

People hold stuff in all day and run to the internet to vent — emphasis on vent. But the internet’s a wild forest full of strangers, so you get way more fights than agreement. And since people can’t stand seeing others do better than themselves, you get more sarcasm than empathy. A fully open online space is a pretty terrible place to pour your heart out.

If the universe were perfectly uniform and low-entropy, we wouldn’t even feel time.

Autumn in Japan is just unreal 🍂

Hedonic adaptation is wild — the moment something good becomes normal, you stop feeling the good. The Stoics had a hack for this: negative visualization. Imagine losing what you have, and suddenly it feels precious again. When you hit that kind of insight while reading, it’s honestly thrilling.

GN

In a perfectly still, low-entropy universe, humans wouldn’t even sense time passing.

what you can do is, to keep trying, harvesting, feeling, and letting go.

GN