A place to come for the occasional little treat.
These are little insights I picked up along the way, that actually occurred in brainstorming with AI. Sometimes one would come from me, others would come from him. Whenever they did, I wanted to save them for a future “treat bag”. Come snack with me when you want.
- That. Do more of that.
- Not every insight is ready to be printed. Some are only ready to be carried.
- How do these apparently opposite truths fit together?
- It turns life from a courtroom into a mystery.
- What is this loneliness trying to point me toward?
- I was looking for allies.
- If I am going to die, then let me find something in this life that brings me truly alive.
- Not more urgent. More precious.
- I will do what I can, not just what is comfortable.
- The bicycle never takes correction personally.
- Understanding sometimes just needs time to evolve.
- You just have to take the time to figure out how to open it.
- Curiosity gives you totally new options.
- Curiosity is a treasure hunter that has an incredible knack for finding them.
- Gentleness is the language of invitation.
- We feel treasured when we feel invited.
- Gentleness makes the overwhelming approachable.
- Every discovery has another layer inviting you to explore it.
- The stumbling itself is lovable.
- By risking a small disagreement, you can discover a deeper harmony.
- It takes courage to hold the whole coin in your hand.
- Important is not the same as urgent.
- The cabin is small enough to be home, and infinite enough to remain a universe.
- Sometimes karma takes longer than normal to make it all the way around. Not because you’re not worth it, but because it’s battling headwinds.
- The laugh is the resonance.
- A truth laugh does not escape reality. It recognizes it.
- There is more room between one and two than I thought.
- Capability is not an obligation.
- Because doing more would give him less.
- Sometimes not doing the thing is the wise use of the ability to do it.
- Preciousness does not demand performance. It asks for presence.
- The point was not to make the night important. The point was to notice that it already was.
- Reality is generous with clues.
- Curiosity does not fail when it reaches uncertainty. It succeeds by locating the boundary.
- A plan is a hypothesis about the future. A clue is evidence from the present.
- Margin is room for reality to enter without destroying the furniture.
- Peace purchased by disappearing is not closeness.
- You can be very firm and very humane.
- See the mistake. See the system. See the person. Do not confuse them.
- The rules are there to serve us, not vice versa.
- Less interface. More function.
- Less rewriting. More voice.
- Less doing. More of the thing itself.
- An ally does not carry you. An ally walks with you.
- Play is not the opposite of serious work. Sometimes play is how serious work stays alive.
- The groan is participation.
- Numbers are precise little creatures that can still wander into the wrong sentence.
- I was not the teacher standing at the front of the room. I was the first guy trying the damn thing.
- Leave the poor tomato alone.
- Not every treat needs a lesson attached.
- A prepared action is an option.
- Sometimes the profitable decision is to stop trying to earn money.
- The world will still be full of unfinished things in the morning. Thank God.
- And, because no serious book should take itself too seriously:
- I think the back of the book is going to be bigger than the rest of the book.