mental models

“I hate today’s era of absolutely zero nuance takes. A friend didn’t behave exactly as \[you\] wanted them to? Cut them off. \[A love interest\] didn’t text you back instantly because \[they have their\] own life? \[They’re\] just giving you breadcrumbs. Doing something \[that\] makes you uncomfortable? Don’t do it anymore. Someone isn’t instantly available for you? Disinterest. Just absolutist statements that often don’t apply to the multilayer situations of everyday life.”

“To live content with small means. To seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion. To be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy not rich. To study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars, birds, babes, and sages with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden, and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.”

“What \[are you\] mirroring right now—and why? What energy are you projecting into the world? What lessons are looping? *What desires are echoing through your reality?”*

# Keith Haring

“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.”

“I have no regrets”



Val Kilmer (1959-2025)

in defense of pretension. 

“Every person you meet \[and\] every experience you attract \[reflects\] something deeper within. Sometimes it’s a glow you’ve forgotten you radiate. Other times it’s a wound, belief, or subconscious narrative begging to be rewritten…”

“...more play, more love, more acting from love. more being love, greater understanding of love. love as wisdom, love as morality, love as truth and purpose.”