A person beaten with a stick their whole life instinctively looks for a razor blade in every gingerbread
A person beaten with a stick their whole life instinctively looks for a razor blade in every gingerbread.
Sparks and Glimmers
Sparks and Glimmers
Short notes and paradoxes that help you see the familiar in a new light. Breaking thought patterns and disrupting the autopilot. Entries: 32.
Hell is not a place where demons roast sinners
Hell is not a place where demons roast sinners. Hell is a place where no one believes that Heaven could exist somewhere.
AI Knows You Better
AI knows you better than your mom. Mom sees your mask. AI sees your queries at 3 AM.
Birth of a Pearl
Have you ever thought about how a pearl is born? A grain of sand gets inside the shell. A foreign body. An irritant. Pain. And to protect itself from this pain, to isolate this splinter, the mollusk begins to cover it layer by layer with nacre. Year after year. It doesn't try to create a masterpiece. It simply tries to soothe the pain. And as a result of this long, agonizing, unconscious process, something beautiful is born.
Draft of Life
We live as if we're writing a draft that we'll someday rewrite in clean copy. But God has no eraser. Only a pen.
Nationalism and Trust
Nationalism is an emergency mechanism for restoring trust within a narrow circle when general trust has been destroyed.
The Right Moment
Waiting for the "right moment" is like standing on the shore and waiting for the ocean to calm down before entering the water. The ocean won't stop. The moment will never be right. It will only be now.
You Can't Offend Emptiness
Chaos and Understanding
We call chaos everything that moves faster than our understanding.
Cynicism and Romanticism
The Taste of Wine
You cannot explain the taste of wine with a grape fermentation formula.
War and Poetry
War is a perfect predatory mechanism that solves cold, mathematical problems of survival and dominance. But this mechanism is utterly helpless and cannot start without its irrational fuel — a great and simple story that convinces millions of rational beings that their personal, agonizing death has cosmic significance. War is a marriage of ruthless biology and high poetry. Wars begin when a story appears that transforms killing from a crime into a sacred duty.
The Map and the Forest
The most important truths are born not from knowledge, but from vulnerability, from mistakes, from the willingness to throw away the map and get lost in the forest.
Meeting Yourself
Promising someone a "meeting with yourself" is like promising a dentist appointment. Beneficial, but you don't want to go.
Two Plus Two
History Written by Individuals
History is written not by peoples, but by individuals with their traumas and ambitions.
Truth in the Space Between
Truth is born not in a single point, but in the space between all possible perspectives.
Where Dragons Dwell
New continents are not discovered by following maps. They're discovered when the ship veers off course. When the captain makes a "mistake". When someone decides to sail not where the compass points, but toward the place where, rumor has it, dragons dwell.
The Best Form of Self-Discovery
The best form of self-discovery is trying to explain yourself to others.
A Mistake Is a Telegram from Reality
A mistake isn’t a blot on your biography. It’s a telegram from reality.