What if many of the people who gave us what we know today, even the ideas that expanded our understanding of what it means to be human, had actually understood those things as children and simply waited to grow up before saying them?
It is painful to see children, whose minds are already clean, being given advice like “be a good person,” while fully grown adults living with their own demons are being sold things like “learn your ADHD type and solve it,” or meaningless courses on how to make money.
It is just as painful to see conclusions that a ten-year-old could reach with a little reasoning, on interfaces a ten-year-old can already understand and use, being packaged and sold as digital marketing education.
Google, Apple, and Facebook are shown as examples, but companies like them cannot be built by reverse-engineering them with this kind of information.
The technology, the conditions, and the standards those companies created have already changed the entire ecosystem.
When I first saw the words “meaningful income” side by side, I was genuinely happy.
The fact that a concept like this is beginning to be discussed around here too may save us from many problems in the future.
When the outside world’s first measure of success is only money, people who aim to move honorably toward an income that is meaningful for themselves and their surroundings, even if relatively “small,” should not give up just because the media sometimes shows us that the bad guys win.
The old idea of “if you work, you earn” has changed.
Since working no longer necessarily means spending as much time, road, and energy as it once did, working in a time that is accelerating faster and faster now means catching time, stopping it, fast-forwarding it.
In other words, somehow bending time.
And when that is truly the case, the one who works wins.
If we add value, if we speed things up, if we can profit from that, then we exist.
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Owning a business and being an employee are both choices.
There are points where owning a business almost forces a person to become a “good person,” while being an employee almost pushes a person toward becoming a “bad” one.
No matter how good a person an employee is, when they are late for work, they will find an excuse.
They will compare the work they do with their salary and pause for a moment.
Because they are prepared for the possible wrongdoings of their coworkers, they may actually become the least trustworthy one.
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They can steal clients, sell information, even cause trouble and get the place shut down.
For an employee, the doors to wrongdoing are wide open, and there are many tools in their hands.
A business owner, on the other hand, has to pay taxes to the state with the money they earn, and pay their employees’ salaries whether there is work or not.
They have to be honest, disciplined, and on top of that, humble.
Which one are you truly inclined toward?
Choose your side.
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What makes a letter a letter?
And beyond that, what gives it character?
Its inner and outer spaces, line weights, angles, and the qualities of its endings not only allow the letter to be read as a letter, but also make it look excited, sad, or happy.
That character is determined by boundary lines.
The boundary is neither inside nor outside.
We, too, in the present moment, stand at the boundary between our past and our future.
We are standing exactly on the boundary shaped by inner and outer pressures.
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Like the funny possibility within the heads-or-tails duality: a coin landing on its edge.
Neither heads nor tails.
And “upright” already represents a perfect 90 degrees, unlike all the infinite other angles.
A position we can call neither right nor left.
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For a glass you are looking at from far away, is the boundary between not full and full the halfway point of the final drop of water?
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The frequency of a beautiful person, the kind that opens every door, can open every door only if it is balanced by what is inside.
