Julian JP Lee

from the week of: 22 September 2025

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Move at the speed of trust. Trust is the real currency.

(thanks for sharing this Ryan!)

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2 rules for work: do not ever do work that curses you… and do not ever curse the work you do.

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Joy via negativa: Let that shit go.

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The cool-headed need not focus on maximising their calm so long as they minimise their fearfulness.

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Cut doors and windows

to make a room.

Where the room isn’t,

there’s room for you.

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So the profit in what is

is in the use of what isn’t.

— Lao Tzu (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin), from the Tao Te Ching

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Where a way is required, a way is made.

Where a path is desired, a path is laid.

If you need a way, make a way.

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Most feed their obsessions by trying to get rid of them.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Love is something I deserve.

I am worthy of love.

Love is something I deserve.

I am worthy of love.

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With all of my burdens and all of my pain

I am worthy of love.

With all of my burdens and all of my pain

I am worthy of love.