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August 28, 2026August 5, 2026 Neil Pasricha

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Neil Pasricha @neilpasricha ·
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"Awareness is not the same as thinking. Awareness is the vast, spacious soul place that doesn’t think. It watches the thinking. So don’t take your thinking seriously." —Richard Rohr, Franciscan Mysticism

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Jaxon @jaxoncoder ·
29 Oct

Paying at a restaurant in America has gotten completely out of hand.

In Europe:

- You eat a burger.
- You ask for the bill.
- It's €18.
- They bring the card reader right to your table.
- You tap your phone and leave.

Done.

In the United States:

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Performance expert @steven_kotler on the ROI of reading:

"You're giving me 6 or 7 hours, but you're getting 15 years of my life and hundreds of other people beating on those ideas. That's amazing ROI."

(from The Knowledge Project with @shaneparrish)

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Neil Pasricha @neilpasricha ·
28 Oct

Books are the single greatest form of compressed wisdom we’ve ever created.

They take us places otherwise inaccessible and offer us springboards into wider emotions, deeper wisdom, and more intentional lives.

Let’s keep turning the page together.

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