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.

Ingredients of a successful friendship
- Proximity
- Frequency
- Duration
- Intensity

Knowledge is the enemy of learning 

Treat failure like a scientist.

Each attempt is an experiment. Each mistake is a clue.

You're not failing. You're refining.

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.

– Robert Kiyosaki

"The Paradox of Freedom: The way to expand your freedom is to narrow your focus.

    Stay focused on saving to achieve financial freedom.
    Stay focused on training to achieve physical freedom.
    Stay focused on learning to achieve intellectual freedom.

The disciplined become the free." 

we are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our preconceptions.

The very tools designed to free us from labor are trapping us in an endless cycle of escalating work. As our productivity increases, our standards and expectations rise even faster, creating a psychological Jevons Paradox that threatens to consume our humanity in the pursuit of ever-greater output. We become victims of our own efficiency.

The game theory is unforgiving: when everyone can produce 10x more, the baseline resets, leaving us all running faster just to stay in place

Meanwhile, the messy, unoptimisable business of being alive remains stubbornly resistant to algorithmic solutions, reminding us that our limitations are the very features that make our existence worthwhile. – Kai 

The formula is straightforward in any project: Clarify + Align + Exceed = Promotion Material.

The question to ask is not, ‘What’s wrong with this person?’ but ‘What does this irritation tell me about myself?’”

an ‘influencer’ makes me so uncomfortable – it’s not just the naked commercialism, but the way it celebrates influence divorced from substance

Creativity is the periscope through which the unconscious looks out onto the world and renders what it sees. The rendering is what we call art, and it is as much a picture of the seer as of the seen.

See what’s possible—and if that door won’t open? Kick it down.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

– Alejandro Jodorowsky

Research consistently links gratitude with life satisfaction. When comparison triggers negative feelings, redirect your focus to what’s going right in your life.

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