Majicman Notes

We are our choices. Jean-Paul Sartre Read more

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Read more

This feeling of fondness for the world takes the form, in his stories, of a constant state of reexamination. (“Am I sure? Is it really so? Is my preexisting opinion causing me to omit anything?”)… Read more

Nothing helps; I must help myself, or I am finished.  Friedrich Nietzsche Read more

Kindness has unlimited upside. James Clear Read more

Agency — from agere: to act, to set in motion. Agentia: the power to make things happen. It is the line between witness and participant. Between drift and direction. To claim agency is to refuse… Read more

There is a word in African philosophy: Ubuntu. Desmond Tutu describes it this way: “My humanity is bound up in yours. A person is a person through other persons. I am human because I belong,… Read more

The best thing for being sad… is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to… Read more

When given a choice to prioritize significance (meaningfulness) over success (financial or otherwise), take it. The question is, how do you choose what to focus on? One piece of sage advice shared with me by… Read more

Failure is rarely the result of some isolated event. Rather, it is a consequence of a long list of accumulated little failures which happen as a result of too little discipline. Failure occurs each time… Read more