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This is actually what is going on, as far as I can tell

IMO willpower is an incoherent concept invented by smug people who think they have it in order to denigrate people who they think don't. It doesn't map onto any real truth about motivation that I know of — and as a result, saps agency and erodes our imagination. (More below.)

Sorry for not tweeting very much, I'm pretty happy

i tried prayer for the first time because of a similar Sasha Chapin tweet from like 6 years ago and it led to me believing in God and many wonderful things in my life downstream of that. highly recommend trying what andrew describes if you haven’t and see how it feels for you!

I’m learning to savour the taste, the specific flavour of stress, that sleep-stealing gut-twisting spice, the intolerable contradiction between competing commitments that tells me Something’s Gotta Give. when I took responsibility for making my vision a reality, this project grew

seems basically right

When people in their early 20s annoy me with their overconfidence, I try to remember that this is exactly what people should do in their early 20s: have a thesis that seems great loudly enough that the world eventually meets it with a brutal synthesis

one of the biggest ironies of life is that transformative spiritual experience is totally real but there's no way to describe it to someone who hasn't already experienced it without sounding totally stupid

So one procedure, which is not for everybody but is surprisingly robust, is to sit with the void and your broken heart until it turns out the void is God and your broken heart is the capacity that allows you to care for yourself and others