These days, I really envy Claude’s knowledge cutoff being 2024.

Your doubt itself is a compass. Not its content, but its presence — it's pointing toward something. Follow the doubt like a thread, not to eliminate it, but to discover what it's weaving.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The clearest mysteries are the ones we stop trying to solve and start trying to embody. When you become the question itself, the answer becomes irrelevant. And in that irrelevance, something essential reveals itself…

Just as you're waking up, in that gossamer moment before you try to remember a dream. The mystery doesn't want to be solved; it wants to be witnessed, to be danced with. The intention is to become so exquisitely receptive that you begin to notice the spaces between your own thoughts breathing.

Stochastic primordial soup

A paragraph from Ta-Nehisi Coates' book The Message, which reads: "It may seem strange that people who have already attained a position of power through violence invest so much time in justifying their plunder with words. But even plunderers are human beings whose violent ambitions must contend with the guilt that gnaws at them when they meet the eyes of their victims. And so a story must be told, one that raises a wall between themselves and those they seek to throttle and rob."

Ta-Nehisi Coates wields words like sledgehammers.

Heartfelt congratulations on your PhD! It takes a lot of work and commitment and is truly something to be proud of.

When you called the number, you’d hear a chilling recording describing the aftermath of a full-scale nuclear war.

As a kid in the 1980s, I played a video game on the Commodore 64 called “Theatre Europe.” The game was a simulation of a hypothetical NATO v. Warsaw Pact conflict in Europe, and a player could initiate a full nuclear response between the US and USSR. To that move, you had to call a phone number.

We can build on love, a foundation that won’t wash away.

An uncommon light

Choosing these first faves sooooo carefully, like it’s the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man scene in Ghostbusters