Making sense of things, occasionally making fun of them ☦️ https://nitter.gq/t.co/DD577zTXBo
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Being sensitive follows an inverted U-curve.
Only up until a certain point does it make your life richer (you notice more nuance, beauty, meaning, atmosphere, moods). Beyond that, it becomes a retreat into yourself. You're not actually feeling more things. You're just experiencing yourself.
The senses offer a useful analogy. Imagine the person who has such an impossibly strong sense of smell that he can smell his own nose. Or the one with such hyperacuity he can see even the cornea of his own eyes.
However, once the nose becomes perceptible to itself, its own smell would become the dominant odor in the olfactory field. Because it sits at the source of smelling itself. Likewise, in the same way that ringing in the ears can drown out all other sounds, if the cornea were visible to the eye, it would partially obscure everything else we see.
So every faculty has a point past which more intensity stops increasing contact with reality and instead starts interfering with it. In fact, a faculty works best when it disappears into its object.
Being excessively “sensitive,” although often romanticized, can turn you into an accidental narcissist, insistent on pointing the perceptual “camera” at yourself, when in reality it should be turned outward, in search of the hidden wonders of a world beyond (and greater than) you.
In this way, you have to let go of your eyes to see. Let go of your emotions to feel. Let go of yourself to be.
hi angry people, I'm aware the song wasn't literally made for the show!
My point was that, between the dramatic, heavenly hook, swelling production, and title itself, the song felt so dead perfect for the moment of a VS angel revealing the fantasy bra – PRACTICALLY DESIGNED for it, almost LIKE a hook engineered to go viral – that I exaggerated the observation into a claim.
I love how chain restaurants come with prepackaged decor, but there’s zero aesthetic standardization in terms of what you can play as music. Why is Jamba Juice playing ‘while my guitar gently weeps’
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Every religion in history has promised miracles and warned of the apocalypse. Anthropic is the first to file both with the SEC.
Just watched ‘Australia’ for the first time. Hugh Jackman’s cattleman character was so gorgeous that I didn’t even care that the movie was woke❤️
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I’ve built six side projects with AI in the last 60 days.
∙ 26,766 total website views
∙ lifechanging.emilylai.com is the most viral yet, 10k views in last 24 hours
∙ Total revenue: $6.6k unintentionally. Life changing is more intentional, I added affiliate links with a total of $8.91 made so far lol
∙ I’m learning from each: getting faster, better design, more distribution
∙ Opus 5.5 and Sol 6.1 seem fairly at parity now for building, I’m still switching between to test
∙ followthemoney.emilylai.com unlocked many conversations with people working in payments and fintech, I didn’t build for that but that was so cool
∙ I’m using AI for the website build, backend, research, video, and graphics for launches. The only thing I don’t use it for is copywriting
This all began when I fully AI enabled myself in August. I had never wrote code before!
Beyond side projects, I’ve tested Hermes, Tab, Grok Bot, Dots, Instict as my personal assistant agents. I feel like my learning capability and marketing ability has 10x’d. I’m still learning what are the best harnesses and setups to improve outcomes and cut myself out of the workflow further
Women need to leave their hooded eyes alone!!!
The soft, languid sultriness is beautiful
You’re literally erasing your sensuality
Romance requires dimming the lights
A hinge date is like sitting under fluorescent lighting
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Overthinking the worst is anxiety; overthinking the best is vision. To build anything extraordinary, you need an initial dose of constructive delusion, foolish enough to defy the odds and disciplined enough to bend them.
