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at what stage you're considered a philosopher?

You know what’s funny about Erwin Schrödinger? He turned quantum physics into a relationship status. “Is it alive? Is it dead? It depends if you are watching.”

You just need to survive the confusion

The price of consciousness is the loss of unconsciousness. - Alan Watts

What if anxiety isn’t dysfunction and it’s the side effect of having choices? Kierkegaard, in The Concept of Anxiety (1844), describes anxiety not as a mental illness but as the feeling of freedom: “the dizziness which occurs when the spirit wants to posit the synthesis, and freedom looks down into its own possibility.” In modern life, it’s that moment when you face too many open futures—career, city, relationship—and freeze. The paralysis is actually the cognitive cost of choice.

I call this the gym membership paradox.

You know whats funny about Søren Kierkegaard? Kierkegaard is the guy who broke off his engagement, pretended to be a jerk so his fiancée would stop loving him, then wrote dozens of dense, pseudonymous philosophical texts about despair, anxiety, and the “single individual” before God. 1/n

When Camu talks about “revolt,” he means a refusal to accept that obscurity as the final answer. It’s the constant struggle of a person against that lack of clarity, always demanding to see more, understand more, even if it seems impossible…

Why is every coffee shop playlist either lo-fi jazz or emotional recovery music from a breakup I didn’t have?

You know what’s funny about David Hume? He spent his whole life proving that we can’t actually prove anything, and somehow became the most reasonable man alive for saying so. 1/n

Living the Sunday of my life

Imagine the smartest thing that you have said of your lifetime and then go read Dostoevsky

Us going around learning science and engineering when the concept of the self is not established

What we consciously notice repeatedly becomes reinforced as part of our perceptual and cognitive identity. Attention is a limited resource; and whatever occupies it gains existential weight in our subjective world. In other words, to notice is to invite existence.

easy. when both of you have enough trust to let Neo take the red pill without flipping the table.

You know what could get you to run: p1. Running makes you tired. p2. Tired people rest. c. Therefore, running is just advanced resting.

at what stage you're considered a philosopher?

You know what’s funny about Erwin Schrödinger? He turned quantum physics into a relationship status. “Is it alive? Is it dead? It depends if you are watching.”

What if anxiety isn’t dysfunction and it’s the side effect of having choices? Kierkegaard, in The Concept of Anxiety (1844), describes anxiety not as a mental illness but as the feeling of freedom: “the dizziness which occurs when the spirit wants to posit the synthesis, and freedom looks down into its own possibility.” In modern life, it’s that moment when you face too many open futures—career, city, relationship—and freeze. The paralysis is actually the cognitive cost of choice.

If your attraction to a goal fades on a given day, imagine the version of you who never pursued it — the one trapped in their own unfulfilled thoughts. That image alone will repel you, and suddenly you’ll feel yourself pulled back toward the work.

I call this the gym membership paradox.

easy. when both of you have enough trust to let Neo take the red pill without flipping the table.

Why is every coffee shop playlist either lo-fi jazz or emotional recovery music from a breakup I didn’t have?

to know if someone is joking is so difficult on this platform, so I always assume that people are joking here all the time

You know what’s funny about David Hume? He spent his whole life proving that we can’t actually prove anything, and somehow became the most reasonable man alive for saying so. 1/n

You just need to survive the confusion

Unpopular opinion: it’s easier to worry about things that don’t exist yet than deal with the ones that do.

You know whats funny about Søren Kierkegaard? Kierkegaard is the guy who broke off his engagement, pretended to be a jerk so his fiancée would stop loving him, then wrote dozens of dense, pseudonymous philosophical texts about despair, anxiety, and the “single individual” before God. 1/n

What we consciously notice repeatedly becomes reinforced as part of our perceptual and cognitive identity. Attention is a limited resource; and whatever occupies it gains existential weight in our subjective world. In other words, to notice is to invite existence.

Hot take: the Perceptron is neither perceptible nor particularly perceptive.