Monica S

"The Crash" on Netflix is a blueprint for how NOT to parent

Do whatever you can to get lowkey rich, make $30k a month, have time, location and financial freedom. Life gets sooo fricken good when you can completely unplug from renting your time out to money and you can just exist without fear of judgement or expectation.

POV: claude traveled 6 months into the future and told you exactly how your next move failed. it's called a premortem. daniel kahneman (nobel prize-winning psychologist behind "thinking fast and slow") called it his single most valuable decision-making technique. when you ask claude "is this a good plan?" it finds all the reasons to say yes. that's what it was trained to do (to be helpful and agreeable). so you walk away feeling confident. you execute, and spend weeks / months building on top of that plan. then it blows up. and you realize the problem was obvious in hindsight, you just never stress-tested it because claude told you it was solid. a premortem fixes this by flipping the frame. instead of asking "what could go wrong?" you tell claude "it's 6 months from now and this is already dead. tell me how it died." that shift turns off claude's optimism because there's nothing to be optimistic about. the premise already says it failed. so claude stops looking for reasons your plan will work and starts explaining how it fell apart. claude comes back with every way your plan could die, each one with a full failure story and the early warning signs to watch for. then a synthesis pulls it all together: > which failure is most likely > which failure is most dangerous > the single biggest hidden assumption you're making (often the most valuable part) > a revised version of your plan with the gaps closed you say "premortem this" and give it your plan. the skill handles the rest.

Freshly baked bread and butter and a cup of cappuccino will heal me

a small reminder

Humans saw this and still invented Microsoft Teams

Nothing like it when DC decides to become a rainforest metropolis for a weekend

crocheted my friends daughter a very hungry caterpillar for her 1st birthday 🐛🧁🍓

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV published his landmark encyclical on artificial intelligence "Magnifica Humanitas,” comparing the attempt to build an AI future that excludes God to the "Tower of Babel" and underlining the need to safeguard human dignity as it is "threatened by new forms of dehumanization." "The risk of dehumanization -- of building a future that excludes God and reduces the other to a means -- is an ancient and ever-new temptation that today takes on a technical guise," Pope Leo said. "In the era of artificial intelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace.”

What a privilege

you seem pretty burnt out for a girl so ambitious

I fell in love with this scripture: “There will come a time when your tears will fall, not because of your troubles, but because God has answered your prayers.” — 𝖧𝖠𝖡𝖠𝖪𝖪𝖴𝖪 𝟤:𝟥

luxury to me is slow mornings, being able to travel whenever you want, good quality clothes, rich fragrances that are niche and delicious, tender love and great friendships.

Never take for granted a body that wakes up and functions without a medical crisis attached to it. That is grace.

Not now babe, i’m reading Magnifica Humanitas

Major cheat code for life: Be fully where your feet are. When you're at work, work. When you're with family, be with family. When you're resting, rest. Most people are physically present and mentally everywhere else.

the Pope quoting The Lord of the Rings!!!!!!! I feel so alive!!!!

I pray u experience this at least once in your life.

In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

for all you know, this could be your last summer. as homer wrote, you will never be lovelier than you are right now. so tell her she has a pretty smile. get lean or become a unit. find wonder in boarding the airplane. drink more coffee than you need. walk on the beach until your feet hurt. write your girlfriend a note on a tuesday. waste money because its not all about retirement. pull over at the lookout. ask the uber driver about his life. tell the woman in the elevator you like her shoes and mean it. call your mother. ask the waiter his favorite thing on the menu and order that. theres so much life in the slow moments, and you sprint past it chasing the next thing. but at any time, in any situation, you can find the good. smile. be happy. recognize it for a one of one life experience. what good is walking around a curmudgeon when tomorrow could be curtains. for heavens sake, flirt with the world.