flâneur

Pengxuan Zhang

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  • thinking in categories would interfere with my ability to freely pattern-match for the particular type of individual I resonate with.
    Looking for Alice - by Henrik Karlsson - Escaping Flatland
  • Find ways to bring more and more of yourself into loving awareness. Every detail of your being. The ones you like, and the ones you don’t. Especially the ones you don’t, especially the parts that most repulse you. You know, loving awareness—even if you haven’t heard the phrase before, you know what it is. Those moments of spacious, calm, thorough, tranquil connection with whatever portion of existence you’re currently exposed to, where nothing is being challenged or conceptualized, but rather is just allowed to appear, in radiant suchness, without resistance or fear. That variety of existentia…
    How I Attained Persistent Self-Love, or, I Demand Deep Okayness For Everyone
  • in hell yeah or no, the author suggests that every time you have the choice to take on a new commitment, you should accept it if the commitment is something that elicits a hell yeah reaction within you, and otherwise you should decline it.
    there is no time left – A Slice of My Mind
  • Heuristic: do your friends at school think your path is a bit strange? If not, maybe it's too normal.
    Advice · Patrick Collison
  • More broadly, nobody is going to teach you to think for yourself.
    Advice · Patrick Collison
  • to try to do things that would make your friends say wow.
    How to Do What You Love
  • Marginal Revolution University Principles of Micro Marginal Revolution University Principles of Macro Columbia University Economics of Money and Banking University of Michigan Model Thinking
    Online courses and textbooks I recommend - Alexey Guzey
  • The most basic level of which is simply to feel you should be working without anyone telling you to.
    How to Work Hard
  • Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
    Curius / Onboarding