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SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Dec 7

It’s authenticity all the way down.

SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Mar 11

Every act of inauthenticity bleeds your energy. It's "waste heat" in your human combustion engine — an elective tax on unbridled expression.

Rage against it.

SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Mar 10

A self-help book with just one page that says,

“You already know what to do”

SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Mar 10

Art is the sawdust of an examined life.

SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Dec 8

If your curiosity isn’t eventually esoteric-maxxing, then it’s not your curiosity

SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Dec 7

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It's authenticity all the way down

Everything you want is downstream of alignment with "what is"

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SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Dec 7

It’s authenticity all the way down.

SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Nov 29

Absolute love is borderless-ness.

It’s tearing down the walls that separate you. It’s unification — of aims & wants. It’s allowing yourself to be wholly steeped in the other, without bias or reservation.

It’s “the sound of no shore.”

SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Nov 27

We must love not only occasionally, but forever.
— Dostoevsky, Brothers Karamazov

SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Nov 27

Nominative determinism strikes again

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SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Nov 24

Dostoevsky is a ChatGPT wrapper for The Bible.

SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Nov 23

Never make a deal with a toddler their future self will refuse.

SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Nov 23

Few worse feelings than inadequacy in a job you don’t even want to do.

SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Nov 21

Oh nice! Doing God’s work

SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Nov 21

Whenever we get an AGI president we’ll kinda come full circle on that bit in 1 Samuel where the Israelites demanded God give them a king.

SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Nov 21

There has never been a better time in the history of the universe to be curious.

SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Nov 21

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SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Nov 12

“If he who is organized by the divine for spiritual communion, refuse and bury his talent in the earth, even though he should want natural bread, shame and confusion of face will pursue him throughout life to eternity."
— William Blake

SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Nov 9

How has no rapper taken "Jung Carl"?

SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Nov 9

Your boundaries are your quest.
— Rumi

SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Jul 26

Ep #27 |Tom Morgan

we talk about curiosity, the hero's journey, a science of meaning & reality's movement towards complexity, what is value, & more

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SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Jun 28

ep #23 is up

Justin Welsh & i talk about intentional lifestyle design, long term thinking, playing your own game, content creation, imitation, status, the value of travel, & more.

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SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Jun 21

ep #22 is up! one of my favorites

Molly Mielke & i talk about "career sunk cost fallacy", agency, investing in ppl, being famous among friends, freedom, commitment, & introspection vs. action.

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SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Jun 14

ep #21 of the pod is up!

Adam Ryan and i talk about Workweek, the b2b knowledge/creator space, & thinking long term.

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SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · Jun 7

ep #20 of audience of one is live!

Zach Pogrob & i talk about finding & sustaining your obsession, his inspirations, cultivating a long term mindset, building a brand as big as disney, & more.

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SPENCER @stk.bsky.social · May 31

ep #19 is up

@andrewrose.bsky.social & i talk about community building & bringing friends together, isolation, implementing the right social technologies, balancing contentment & ambition, & more.

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