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Norms around "equality" lead intelligent and charismatic people to unconsciously mutilate their own power (in how they walk, talk, and command the attention/behavior of others). It's like progressive taxation but 1000x more severe (and completely hidden, and naturalized). The

Whatever your biggest dream is, it's useful to ask yourself the question: "What would it look like to just walk up and take it, immediately?" When the young Kanye wanted to become a superstar rapper, he just walked into the place that made superstar rappers—and took it. The

Whenever all the bureaucrat schoolmarm types are repeating in unison "you can't do that!" You have to always remember... The reason they're all saying this is precisely because you still can do that.

The CEO of Patreon Jack Conte recently pointed out that we're seeing the death of the follower. I took note of this because I remember Nat Eliason saying the same exact thing at a dinner months ago. The algorithmic ranking concept that Facebook started in the early 2010s has

I can never believe when people say it's a sad time for writing, books, ideas, etc. The economy of independent, genuinely provocative, and elite-quality writers/artists, books, and ideas is now so large I can hardly keep up with it. When I first left academia to pursue this

Lacan had this theory about the "mirror stage" and he made this diagram that's sometimes circulated. You've got a vase on a stand and behind it, hidden from direct view, is a bouquet of flowers. A curved mirror (like a shiny sphere) is placed such that when you look at it from a

At a certain point in your life, you realize that life is, in some sense, impossible. As Chekhov once said: “Life is a vexatious trap: when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness, he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no

who did it better, Charlie XCX or me and my friends in 2007? (from an old blog I haven't checked in 15 years lmao)

A biologically healthy young man should be so horny that he is constantly making passes at girls, without any kind of premeditation. This is not supposed to be a planned, purposeful type of activity, it is the kind of thing that should happen almost against his will, something he

it's funny that my most correct, powerful, and viral tweets always attract a critique of my writing style as "copypasta" when in fact they are meticulously crafted and singular works of the genre—for, love me or hate me, you know a jmurph tweet as soon as you see it

small private lunch tomorrow in Austin, DM if you want to join

I'm surprised incest is still taboo. If you believe in maximizing pleasure and abolishing superstitious moral restrictions, why do you suffer this arbitrary constraint? If you believe recreational sex is fine, outside of reproductive problems there is no rational reason to

We just learned child no. 2 will be a boy. I would have been equally happy with a girl, but every father is a little more equally happy with a boy.

The non-Texan mind cannot comprehend this high school football game.