Angular Ocean

A story about a walled garden: I grew up in the US. My mother was born on the island of Sāo Miguel in the Açores, to Portuguese parents who immigrated to the US while she was still a baby. In our village on the island, we had a huge walled garden (“tapada”) in the family for…

In general, you will have a much better time in life if you assume that it is your responsibility to prompt the interactions you would like to have

your relationship with discipline changes so much once you start doing things out of love instead of shame. like just flipping the perspective to realizing you deserve everything good. the more you fall in love with yourself the more you naturally want to give yourself the best.

much modern unhappiness, i think, is because people live in a world of imitations talking to imitation friends (parasocial online accounts), having imitation adventures (streaming), raising imitation babies (pets) local maxima borne of optimizing for comfort over happiness

Which is better?

Let us all ponder this, lest we be moral simpletons

this is what they took from us

l'existence de google doc implique l'existence de google d'oïl

you have two choices wrt to marriage: 1. hope a 30 y.o. bachelor's lifestyle will satisfy you forever, in which case there's not much point in getting married but you could prolly find another low-ambition person to lazily DINK with 2. build something together, which takes WORK

Optionality is useless unless you choose an option

A lot of people who were really excited about room temperature semiconductors are strangely silent on the fusionbros who say they can turn mercury into gold

“Somebody has to, and no one else will.” goes so hard as a twitter bio @UnsongMusical

if you want to become successful, it helps to study successful people and groups of people– but you wanna be very careful not to buy the narrative wholesale, because there’s practically always a bunch of lionizing and valorizing going on that misrepresents reality

How many people would you kill to save one shrimp?

you think about the Roman Empire I think about the Minoan Empire we are not the same

The quality of life people experience in a high-trust society doesn’t show up in GDP.

UNSONG Musical Stretch Goal: bring back Art as fifth pillar of the Bay Area

When you arrive in SF, you have to choose: you can worship sex, psychedelics, shrimp, or shareholder value.

To the extent people go batty doing the job it’s because of two things primarily, one is not enough sleep (short period) and the second is, as mentioned, that the needs are constant, which if you don’t have a supportive husband, family, and/or community can grind you down. I’m…

At the risk of (indirectly) responding to an A*lla post, we have really oversold the misery and drudgery of caring for children because of a bottomless desire for female victimhood

Shrimp Guys are false flag operations created and funded by a rogue superintelligent ai to distract EAs from ai safety Isn’t it obvious?