“Life isn’t a series of good and bad choices. It’s harder to steer it one way or the other than most people think. You just get pulled along. You look back and you wonder, “could I have changed the course of my life?” Maybe you could’ve…but it would probably have taken a tremendous force of will.”
Seth. From It's A Good Life, If You Don't Weaken.
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During COVID, I started working on a book called Permissionless. It was born out of frustration—the kind that gnaws at you when you see how broken the systems are, how unnecessary the gatekeepers have become, how much red tape gets in the way of solving real problems. The book
The best parts of life are messy. They refuse to follow scripts. They defy prediction. They explode past the dull constraints of data. And Silicon Valley is a doomsday cult that keeps clawing at them, stripping away the raw, unpredictable joy of the human experience and replacing it with something
We've all heard the saying. "Everyone is entitled to their opinion." But it's not quite true, is it? An opinion isn’t a birthright, and it ain't a free pass to the conversation. It’s not something you wake up with, fully