Rick Benger
@rickbenger
Technoromantic storymonger. Writing Mosaic https://by.rickbenger.com. Co-building https://liminal-learning.com
a few updates about Liminal Learning, and the program we're offering for ~18-24 year-olds seeking a collective launch into purposeful adulthood. Here's the path we walk together, in cohorts...
a new and restless spirit, seeking violently to burst through old and cramping forms, a nervous preoccupation with perpetually changing inner states of consciousness, a longing for the unbounded and the indefinable, for perpetual movement and change, an effort to return to the…
tangent, but “if they can misunderstand me to direct me to their own preferences, they will” is an EXACT type of guy
But why keep using Google then? I already feel it, I no longer bother with Google for anything except the most trivial of queries. Bc if it can misunderstand me to direct me to its own results, it will.
tech bro is a dumb slur. techne is a virtue, literally referring to "art, craft, and skill". brotherhood is a virtue - the bonds between brothers are beautiful and worthy of reverence. you are making fun of technical skill and brotherhood. a brotherhood of technical mastery.
If you ever find yourself as a houseguest for an extended period of time, here is the golden rule for success: invisible by day, charming by night.
in today's "numbers that make you go whoa"...
Lovable just crossed $100M ARR in 8 months. Faster than OpenAI, Cursor, Wiz, and every other software company in history. Today we're launching a game-changing update, it reduces the error rates by 91%. Introducing Lovable Agent:
wanna live near your friends? we're running another neighborhood accelerator program in the fall, where you'll learn how to actually get your friends to co-locate within walking distance, create a thriving social scene with many events per week, and start a community university
2019: dreamed about a neighborhood campus, integrating work, hobbies, family & living near friends 2023: built one with my ppl! 2025: helped others launch campuses across the world, from Geneva to Porto Now: Wanna build your own? Apply to our fall cohort below
there's a fine line between rumination and locked in. One of those mental health concepts that was short-term helpful, long-term a hindrance for me, I realise. Rumination = bad is way, way too blunt. There's a similar quality of awareness to staring at a wall for 8 hours…
Who are the highest-level community-builders in the world? (only ones building "real" community pls)
who made this meme? It’s great. Friend DMd it but I can’t find source
maybe you're lonely because you're fundamentally broken or maybe it's because we spent the last 70 years dismantling social structures that took centuries to develop and we haven't replaced them with anything yet
haven’t held a baby in a while I guess, maybe 6 months? Got handed a newborn twin by another dad at the kindergarten graduation party today (his older kid had a boo boo) and oh my. It felt like the first cigarette feels to someone who’s kicked smoking
What’s the one thing you wish someone had taught you about leaving school and becoming an adult?
How uncertainty might spur philosophers to either pure rationalism or pure empiricism
I wrote more about rationalism and empiricism bryankam.com/p/rationalism-…
Dandelion 🤝 tree. Lovely metaphor
fwiw, the way i see what Rich is doing is that it's part of "the thing that gets us to the thing" long-term localism is awesome, that's what i'm up to, because i'm lucky enough to have grown up in a place and around people that i still resonate with, my parents put in the hard…