If your only reference library is other design, you are essentially running the same program. Just a lot slower.

And if some god batters me far out on the wine-blue water, I will endure it, keeping a stubborn spirit inside me, for already I have suffered much and done much hard work on the waves and in the fighting.

AI is powerful but taste-blind. It can make anything but it has no idea what's actually worth making. But AI + your taste? That's the game-changer. The more AI can execute, the more your eye for what's interesting — your ability to discern and curate what matters and why — becomes everything.

Take reading. You could use AI to summarize/extract the key points. Or you could lean into expansion, actually read the book cover to cover and find a paragraph that stirs something in your soul that sticks with you for years.

The single most important realization I've had working with connectors is around how comprehensive AI's "reading" of external data tends to be. What an LLM does instead is "strategically sample" and selectively read only the parts it thinks are relevant, just as a human would.

Your AI is not a tool. It is an environment, and you are in it.

Silence is God's first language; everything else is a poor translation.

Living into your purpose is mostly a consciousness problem. The thing you're supposed to do in this life already exists. The question is whether you have the awareness to see it?

Developing agency is useful, but there is a bigger game you can play. It's working on the context you apply agency from, which simultaneously increases agency.

I started to view the primary function of my worldly pursuits as a mirror in order to show me what I was resisting and causing me to react. The primary goal was to evolve my level of consciousness, and the world was the classroom.

Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love.

Silence is an intentional cultivation of availability.

Curiosity is underrated. In many ways, it's the engine of life. You get these questions, and they don't go away. And so you follow them, you set out to answer them.

One of the ways in which we most securely insulate ourselves from transformation is by having lives that are too full for stillness and solitude.

Engaged in the creative process we feel more alive than ever, because we are making something and not merely consuming. In doing this work, we are in fact creating ourselves.

More than the grand beauties of our lives, wonder is about having the presence to pay attention to the commonplace.

Craftsmanship means dwelling on a task for a long time and going deeply into it, because you want to get it right.

Absolutely nothing has made me feel more important than becoming a father.

Sabbath isn't a time to catch up on tasks. Nor is it simply a time of rest to prepare for a busy week. It is a time to revel in the beauty and delight of simply being.

Beautiful spaces are sacred spaces.

When I speak of wonder, I mean the practice of beholding the beautiful.

Making art now means working in the face of uncertainty; it means living with doubt and contradiction, doing something no one much cares whether you do, and for which there may be neither audience nor reward.

There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness, a sign that God is implicit in all of creation.

Blogging and social media don't make you better at your craft; doing your craft makes you better at it.