On public online behaviour by Manuel Moreale. Well said 👏
A blast from the past…
The honeymoon period is over. The season proper starts now.
Ever found yourself fighting a battle that didn’t exist?
‘All I want to do is be helpful’ isn’t virtue talking—it’s self-preservation disguised as service.
— Robert Saltzman
The only answer is this present moment. Everything that is happening right now is the answer to everything that preceded it.
There’s nothing here but everything…
It’s started…
An openness to whatever role appears. No need to contract around a fixed identity. No need to take on what is projected by ‘others.’ Who I am doesn’t need an answer.
I am free to be myself. Because I simply cannot see myself.
Minimalism as practiced by serious men is often armor dressed as aesthetics. You pare down your possessions and call it simplicity, but really you’re building a contrarian badge that says: I’ve transcended ordinary wanting. It’s austerity as signal. The meal replacements, the monochrome phone screen, the bare desk lit by a designer lamp — they’re not about freedom. They’re about control. And underneath all the curation there is envy. You’re trying to reverse-engineer the Simple Man’s pared life without admitting you’re doing it.
A person repeats beliefs and behaviors, regardless of their truth or utility, because they preserve coherence.
I seem to be less interested in what happens than the fact that anything is happening at all.
Everything happens without us — from the tiniest cellular process, to the appearance of every single thought we ever have, to the birth and death of entire galaxies.
Boredom is a story and a blindness.
Good to have Slow Horses back.
Good morning.
It’s quite shocking to consider the amount of time and effort I wasted over the years trying to solve problems I didn’t even have.