While reflection can help us learn and adapt, it becomes destructive when it stops moving forward. Yet there is a point where reflection hardens into rumination. The same mental replay that once offered understanding begins to loop endlessly, trapping us in self-criticism and regret.

The space between stimulus and response, as Frankl noted, is where growth and freedom reside

Polymath and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe reminds us to live and work with a calm persistence:

"Without haste, yet without rest."

Note: Goethe's original example was a star orbiting the sun: steady and unhurried, but always in motion.

Source: Gedichte. Ausgabe letzter Hand (1827) 

Real satisfaction isn’t about how much you squeeze in; it’s that quiet “yep, I did what I said I was going to do” feeling at the end of the day

When was the last time you felt genuinely good? Not just "okay" or "distracted from feeling bad" - but actually good, hopeful, engaged with life?

That's not how connection works. That's isolation with witnesses.

In the future, we might be able to tap black-hole physics to construct quantum computers of our own.

It's ok to be a late bloomer as long as you don't miss the show

As we moan the moan past and dread the future we forget to live now!!!!

Steak: a slice of heaven on a plate.
Anthony Bourdain

I don't have a fear of the unknown, if anything I have a fear of the known. 

torn between collapse and discovery

is there such a thing as mental illness? His answer is no. For Szasz, real disease must be grounded in pathophysiology. If the brain is diseased, that is neurology. What psychiatry calls “mental illness,” he argues, is better understood as problems in living that unfold in ethical, social, and legal contexts. Once you label conduct as illness, you turn value conflicts into medical problems and invite medical solutions that cannot address what was defined in nonmedical terms.

Focus on improving not proving. 
Chase progress rather than perception 

It's wise plan for the future but if we have one eye at the future we are not living fully now therefore when tomorrow comes we won't be able to enjoy our plans since we would be preoccupied with the future 

How to make someone feel seen and heard

A classic example is to imagine a stream running by, carrying along some leaves – and then to mentally ‘place’ each thought on a leaf and watch it drift downstream. ‘The thoughts are still there, but you’re relating to them a little bit differently,’ Solomon says.

When people come to you with a problem they want to be 
* heard
* hugged 
* helped

figuring out which one is appropriate one in each occasion determines how well you can communicate

To succeed is always to fail, in that the more one succeeds in anything, the greater is the need to go on succeeding

Za-zen (Sitting Meditation)

The core practice involves sitting quietly without trying to achieve any particular state. The instruction is simple: "In walking, just walk. In sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble." This isn't about emptying the mind but rather observing thoughts without attachment or control.

You're capable of analyzing systems without needing to demolish them

Space shapes perception. It provides the conditions through which experience unfolds. Before meaning is formed, spatial relationships already guide how bodies move, how attention is focused, and how presence is felt. Architecture organizes these conditions. It defines proximity, enclosure, elevation, and direction. These spatial arrangements establish the grammar of interaction.

The Paradox of Liberation

your depression is not a malfunction is a symptom, a signal of unmet psychological needs
like going out into nature and forming social bonds 
you are not broken just depleted from love and affection, meaning in your life 

Humans have always harbored this contradiction: they crave knowledge yet fear being transformed by it.

Motivation is weather: changeable, unpredictable, often absent when you need it most. Discipline is climate: the steady, reliable conditions you create for yourself regardless of how you feel on any given day.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

– Jim Rohn

Richard Feyman’s famous quote:

    “What I cannot create, I do not understand”

Challenge your preconceived notions 
Don't assume, validate

Curiosity, adaptability, product thinking - those are the durable qualities in a changing world.