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Fear and hope ride along in every Reality as the angle attention cannot read. Like velocity, they are carried and unfelt, and they reach you only on a quarter turn: the two sentences you write. … readFear Rides Along. You Feel It on the Turn.
Fear and hope are stories about an unknown future. Separating the force of attention from the direction of a story makes the story available for inspection. … readFear Fits on a Page
“Lower your expectations” sounds like an instruction you can carry out. Derived from the foundation’s result that every artifact is a miss, read at its middle clause, the expectation is not yours to command: it moves when what you read changes, not when you tell it to. The same clause clears the person who blames herself for hoping. … readWhat Is Managing Expectations
Hope and fear are the same fiction with different endings. Neither one is happening. You do not live in the future — you manufacture history, one artifact at a time. … readFire Your Hopium Dealer
Fear and Hope ask the present to pay emotional costs for futures that do not yet exist. Readiness prepares without confusing anticipation with Reality. … readDo Not Pay Tomorrow in Advance