Yesterday I read Derek Sivers’ “Useful No True”. Should there be a comma in that title? Anyway, good book. I think the thesis is something like: Actions over beliefs. Hack your beliefs to achieve desired actions. Gaslight oneself? This is not bad. We all do this anyway, just take the reigns. Via chatgpt5: The book argues that we should adopt beliefs, perspectives, and thoughts not because they are absolutely true, but because they are useful. Its central idea is reframing: deliberately ...| Consumption Exhaust
Beliefs guide the arcs of our lives, usually through stories. These can appear as simple phrases or statements. For example, “Life is a competition.” In this story, the belief might be that there is such an objective thing as winning or losing at life—otherwise it wouldn’t be a competition. Winning is good, and losing is […]| Herbert Lui
One of my favorite books of the past decade has been Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I’ll try my best to make some of the ideas legible but I highly recommend reading the book before this article as only half or even less of this article will make sense. The book is the […]| Jeremy Noronha
from the book “Useful Not True”:| sive.rs
from the book “Useful Not True”:| sive.rs