• Your four-dimensional body

    You are a four-dimensional being. You have definite bounds in length, width, height, and time. And you can cast your consciousness through time: into the past through memory, and into the future through prediction and planning. Are you acquainted with your one-year-ago self? With your future self?

     
  • Manage your indefinite optimisms

    Thiel’s diagnosis of "indefinite optimism" in startups also applies at the personal, life-planning level, and I’ve found it to be a really useful, if scary, tool for that. What are the pleasant future daydreams that you passively hope for?