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In a world of optimised efficiency, be slow every moment you can. Start dreaming again. What did you dream of being as a child. Get in touch with that! Refuse the rush the world puts on us. You aren't running out of time. This is your power!
[I had met this man in a band in Oaxaca and who was 55 and had moved from Vienna to start his band. we spoke for hours about this. He told me how his life had been stolen from him by efficiency and he will be spending the rest of his life winning it back.]
16h ago
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i cannot stress this enough https://thestorytellers.com/the-businessman-and-the-fisherman/
7h ago
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🎶- Fall to knees and ask God “Why must you punish me? I’m far too handsome to not be in magazines!”Â
- Resign to room
- Scroll, weeping at the bottom of Instagram
- Click furiously through every one of your tagged photos
- Learn nothing about yourself
- Ask every girl you’ve ever slept with to rate your performance
- Watch Mad Max: Fury Road with your mother to learn what masculinity means
- Read top 12 pieces of relationship advice from How I Met Your Mother on Buzzfeed
- Throw out your 2-in-1 and buy a seperate shampoo and conditioner
- Listen to Jerkin Fendrix every day for a month
- Google yourself so many times that you start trendingÂ
- Read back your love letters to southeastern French villages, and know that you were really just writing about someone
- Busy yourself with trying to understand who you are and forget your dogs birthday
- Wake up every day and re-remember all that has been taken from you, like the whole of Groundhog Day combined with just the second half of 50 First Dates
- In one moment, feel more like you want to die than ever before in your life
- In the next moment, feel more like you want to try than ever before in your life
- To be who you know you could beÂ
- To be an outrageous rock and roll iconÂ
- To be a masterful lover
- To be the best dressed guy in this Shoreditch venue
- To be on the cover of So Young magazine in collage form
- To be a well-regarded DJ of rare techno on vinyl only
- To be the hero of your dope childhood dreams
- Put on fresh socks and a Kanye west album, to find your next calling
- Buy a coffee table book on minimalism, and a new sweater
- Cut your own hair badly and start using a face scrub
- Unfollow every girl every girl who posts pictures of healthy meals
- And every girl who posts pictures of happy meals
- Give yourself a hilarious name on Facebook
- Pretend not to know who Lil Yaughty is
- Tell everyone you meet that you’ve never seen black mirror
- Throw out your bedframe
- Put your mattress on the floor
- Destroy your aeropress and start drinking instant coffee
- Act like you know nothing about craft beer
- Bitch about every group in South London
- Start defining yourself purely by the things you hate
- Know you have become the antithesis of your 2016 manifesto
- You are so lost in my plight to exist, that you have forgotten to live, and you forgot to love
I love you. Good night
Jul 16, 2025
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🌱This is probably going to be part of a larger suite of small actions that I try to do intentionally: to reclaim equilibrium.
I've been thinking about the U.S.A. presidential election and considering the question "Now what for me?"
(There are some thoughtful posts and replies on this theme out there, like this one from royallmonarch and this ask from llq and many others that are worthy of your attention.)
(And, realistically, while some readers of this post are grieving and terrified, others may be relieved and hopeful, while many are simply disconnected or apathetic. This rec is politically agnostic.)
But to the question of "What now for me?" or "How then shall we live?" I find myself drawn toward small acts that both serve others in my immediate spheres of influence and put a gentle exclamation mark on the person that I want to be.
Regardless of if you are mourning or dancing today, you still have great power in the world around you.
My challenge to me, at least for a little while, is to stop watching the horrors on the horizon and see the opportunities in my path. A good word to someone feeling discouraged. A meal purchased for the hungry. An unexpected act of service. Apologizing when I don't have to or forgiving when I'm justified in not. Letting someone take my spot in line. A quiet revolution of uncelebrated kindness. Listening to truly understand.
I've been thinking about the U.S.A. presidential election and considering the question "Now what for me?"
(There are some thoughtful posts and replies on this theme out there, like this one from royallmonarch and this ask from llq and many others that are worthy of your attention.)
(And, realistically, while some readers of this post are grieving and terrified, others may be relieved and hopeful, while many are simply disconnected or apathetic. This rec is politically agnostic.)
But to the question of "What now for me?" or "How then shall we live?" I find myself drawn toward small acts that both serve others in my immediate spheres of influence and put a gentle exclamation mark on the person that I want to be.
Regardless of if you are mourning or dancing today, you still have great power in the world around you.
My challenge to me, at least for a little while, is to stop watching the horrors on the horizon and see the opportunities in my path. A good word to someone feeling discouraged. A meal purchased for the hungry. An unexpected act of service. Apologizing when I don't have to or forgiving when I'm justified in not. Letting someone take my spot in line. A quiet revolution of uncelebrated kindness. Listening to truly understand.
Nov 6, 2024
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It’s short enough, so let me try dropping the text here. Follow the link for an accompanying demo, the 59th unreleased song I’ve shared this year on my Substack newsletter, ’organizing an accident’.
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Wanting to be something you’re not is a form of suffering. If we accept this as true, then life itself, as the Buddhists say, is suffering. This line of thinking has always resonated with me. It also immediately strikes up the beatnik who’s squatting in my soul, saying things like: “Hey baby, if this is wrong, than I don’t wanna feel right.” It’s through our suffering, our yearning, our active participation in it all—that we can pass from that which we “were not” to that which we “are” now. Sometimes, this process is experimentally prodded and analyzed, with each shifting atom felt and celebrated. Other times, probably more often than not, we find ourselves abruptly at our unannounced point of arrival where we either stick out our thumbs and hail a ride back or get on with it, find some comfortable ground, and pitch a tent. Where do we go from here? The human condition is anything but permanent. Any semblance of permanence in our lives should be treated with utmost suspicion. From one second to the next within the microcosm, despite any recognizable turbulence, you and I and the world in which we inhabit are constantly transforming anew. Resistance is futile. Thus, we embrace change. Personally, I love change. I love big change, and I love it incrementally too. Whether it's discovering an entirely new country, writing a piece of music, choosing an unexplored route on a daily commute, or, yes, even the few gray hairs that have appeared on my head this year. It is in our nature, but due to a variety of obstacles and circumstances, some will always opt for or falter to a reality closer to a reenactment of The Sims, continuously walking into walls. It is also in our nature to build bridges we'll later bomb, create moral and aesthetic standards we'll never exemplify, and partake in all manner of acts of self-sabotage. This could lead one to move cautiously through the world or worse, adopt a nihilistic posture towards it. The only greater tragedy than a person beaming with potential but paralyzed by fear is one motivated by cynicism.
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Wanting to be something you’re not is a form of suffering. If we accept this as true, then life itself, as the Buddhists say, is suffering. This line of thinking has always resonated with me. It also immediately strikes up the beatnik who’s squatting in my soul, saying things like: “Hey baby, if this is wrong, than I don’t wanna feel right.” It’s through our suffering, our yearning, our active participation in it all—that we can pass from that which we “were not” to that which we “are” now. Sometimes, this process is experimentally prodded and analyzed, with each shifting atom felt and celebrated. Other times, probably more often than not, we find ourselves abruptly at our unannounced point of arrival where we either stick out our thumbs and hail a ride back or get on with it, find some comfortable ground, and pitch a tent. Where do we go from here? The human condition is anything but permanent. Any semblance of permanence in our lives should be treated with utmost suspicion. From one second to the next within the microcosm, despite any recognizable turbulence, you and I and the world in which we inhabit are constantly transforming anew. Resistance is futile. Thus, we embrace change. Personally, I love change. I love big change, and I love it incrementally too. Whether it's discovering an entirely new country, writing a piece of music, choosing an unexplored route on a daily commute, or, yes, even the few gray hairs that have appeared on my head this year. It is in our nature, but due to a variety of obstacles and circumstances, some will always opt for or falter to a reality closer to a reenactment of The Sims, continuously walking into walls. It is also in our nature to build bridges we'll later bomb, create moral and aesthetic standards we'll never exemplify, and partake in all manner of acts of self-sabotage. This could lead one to move cautiously through the world or worse, adopt a nihilistic posture towards it. The only greater tragedy than a person beaming with potential but paralyzed by fear is one motivated by cynicism.
Feb 22, 2024
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sleeping naked with crisp new sheets and a fluffy duvet. added points if you didnt tie your hair up. the post sleep only wearing glasses, drinking black coffee and doing things on your laptop hits 10 times harder. or maybe a crossword / sudoku / reading your horoscope from yesterdays news paper. very chic.
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read all the books on your shelf before you buy a new one.
listen to all your cds and records before you buy a new one.
wear your shoes into the ground until you buy a new pair.
burn all your candles before you buy a new one.
let your lucky pen run dry before you buy a new one.
let holes wear in your jeans before you buy a new pair.
create oportunity with the things that are already in your possession.
appreciate the moons that orbit around your day to day and give them attention.
make impressions in them, write on them, bend them, savour them.
and when your lost, look to these moons orbit and find yourself in the centre.
