W. Jiang

!!!Collab concept!!! 💭 TEJO x HEISENBERG mash up video. Dropping the full video soon. #valorant #tejo #heisenberg #breakingbad

please take the risk. worst case scenario: you learn. best case scenario: it changes your whole fucking life. and you very well know, you need that change.

Normalize saying: "I'll talk about this after I take a walk." Walking is the most natural way to regulate your emotions and process rational thought. Make no decisions before walking on them.

Major cheat code for life: Become brutally honest with yourself. About your habits. Your effort. Your excuses. Your blind spots. Self-honesty is uncomfortable, but it'll save you years of wasted time. You can’t fix what you keep lying about.

If we don’t explain science to the public, others will fill the gap with nonsense.

"Better to be a wolf everyone hates, than a donkey everyone rides." Integrity above everything.

you’re allowed to do creative stuff even if you don’t think you’re good at them. do it because it moves something stuck inside you. because creativity isn’t about being impressive, it’s about being expressive. create badly. create awkwardly. that’s not failure, that’s freedom.

James Clear on the antidote to anxiety:

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blender Foundation is thrilled to announce that Netflix Animation Studios is joining the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron. This support will be dedicated towards general Blender core development, to continuously improve content creation tools for individuals and teams working in media and entertainment-related workflows. fund.blender.org #b3d #devfund

Are you kidding me? This is the best website design experience I've had in a long, long time. @Shopify just won my heart with this new Winter Edition web design! Seriously, the bar for good design is so high right now. With all the AI slop out there, the only word-of-mouth you can rely on is having great design taste and building a cult around it. Just take @PrimeIntellect - ultimate design taste. Why wouldn't I send this to my friends or post it online organically? The moat is good design, folks - it's so important with all the AI slop we're seeing today. @tobi please give your design team a big big raise!

The fastest way to lose confidence is breaking small promises to yourself. Do what you said you would do. Always.

Pavel Durov on why he hasn't had depression in 20 years: "I normally never have depression. I don't remember having depression in the last 20 years, at least maybe when I was a teenager." Pavel's approach to difficult emotions is completely counterintuitive. As he puts it: "I'm a human being like everybody else. I do get to experience emotions and some of them are not very pleasant. But I believe that it's the responsibility of every one of us to cope with these emotions and to learn to work through them." On what creates depression: "Self-discipline is particularly important because without it, how can you overcome this seemingly endless loop of negativity or despair that ultimately leads to depression for some people?" His method: "One of the reasons I don't have depression is I start doing things. I identify the problem, I can see a solution, and I start executing the strategy. If you are stuck in this loop of being worried about something, nothing's ever going to change." The mistake people make: "People often make this mistake thinking 'Oh, I should just have some rest and then regain energy.' This is not how it works. You gain energy by doing something. So you start doing something, then it happens. You feel motivated, you feel inspired, and then ultimately you do something else a little bit more." He continues: "The whole point is to do first and then feel, not feel and then do. Going to the gym is a good example. There are many days when you don't want to start working out. But you have to overcome this initial reluctance and then you get to a point that you enjoy it and you think 'Oh my god, it was such a good idea to come to gym today.'" Action creates energy, not the other way around.

a mentor once told me that the person who figures out how to enjoy the process will always beat the person who’s just tolerating it. same hours, different energy, completely different results. find a way to love the grind or find a different grind.

“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly.” — Marcus Aurelius

Joseph Campbell, timeless

If you don’t commit to meaningful work, life will fill your time with busywork.

Never quit something with great long term potential just because you can't deal with the stress of the moment.

Depression cannot hit a moving target. Best quote I’ve heard all year.