an unstructured distillation of my various bouts of inspiration and rabbit holes.
11/20/25
“production is deterrence and the factory is the weapons system” ”… in 2025, the factory itself is the weapon” - trae stephens
it appears that all institutions and industries are suffering the same problem: it’s extraordinarily easy to produce output (ex: munitions, planes, coded web apps), but the orchestration mechanisms that produce this are ill-designed (ex: decentralized factory production or repeating ambiguous prompts to ai tools).
in 2025, we have all awaken from the illusive dreams of working static jobs all our lives where we can function as factory workers that churn polished machine components. now all of us are forced to act as designers and create systems that can not simply product output — but produce it meaningfully. those who can design these orchestration systems will win in the next decade.
11/20/25
surviving heartbreak (loss of loved one, self, so) is an underrated demonstration of human resilience. no matter what your circumstances are, every person you interact with will experience this: your neighbor, your outgoing coworker, the celebrity whose life everyone aspires to attain holding on to 8 breakups.
the pain is on the same level as, perhaps more than, the startup failures so glamorized in popular media (on the extreme, some may argue this is like losing a child). it’s analogous to a physical ache, like breaking your arm and being unable to function for several weeks on end.
little do we know how universal these feelings are. it’s crazy to me how literally every human was able to endure this, and still do.
11/06/25
you should travel as much as possible when you’re young. living in the same place will make you think there’s a hyper specific, pre-described version of the “ideal life”. when you realize there are a million permutations of this arbitrary concept of an ideal existence, you start living your life however you want.
08/05/25
the best things in life are never over-engineered. finding your partner via irl serendipitous meetings is more fulfilling than cycling through 10 tinder dates & hookups. spontaneous traveling is more exciting than curated itineraries. sure, you can find shortcuts in work to achieve a result. there are very very few examples (imo) where you should engineer personal life experiences. theres a fundamentally transactional nature to this that dilutes things even if the end result is fundamentally the same. I think the process in which you discover/arrive at a result is equally as important as the result itself. Shoutout to 222!