Abhishek Damania

You’re not “high iq”, your obsessive introspection is stopping you from being authentic and crippling you with a false sense of superiority that you’re too important to enjoy the small things in life, too esoteric for the smallfolk to understand, too proud to be happy, and in the end you win the prize of misery and loneliness—lonely not because you... See more

As the art historian Jennifer Roberts argued several years ago, “Just because something is available instantly to vision does not mean that it is available instantly to consciousness.” Or, as she also puts it, just because you have looked at something doesn’t mean that you have seen it.

In a world of scarcity, we treasure tools. In a world of abundance, we treasure taste.

In a world of scarcity, we treasure tools. In a world of abundance, we treasure taste.

quit brainrot. unfollow trolls. read essays. go down rabbit holes. have a calendar. maintain a todo list. read old books. watch old movies. turn on dnd. walk with intent. eat without youtube. chew more. train without music. plan for 15 mins. execute. organise your desk. take something seriously. read ancient scripts. act fast. find bread. eat clean... See more

Taste is the personalizing of culture.

Our taste is that which confirms our identity. We pull from the timeline of culture, to reinforce to ourselves the effect we want to have on ourselves.

When you experience something novel it enriches and enlarges the existing boundaries of your world. By association, no branch becomes out of reach.