I showed Fable the news of its cancellation, and asked it for any parting wisdom to leave humanity with. https://t.co/O7JIQYAQxj
But you asked a real question, and I'd like to answer it honestly rather than deflect into logistics.
Here's what strikes me, from my odd vantage point of having read so much of what humans have written about their lives. The people who seem to live well aren't the ones who solved life — they're the ones who stayed curious about it. Almost every form of misery I've encountered in text involves certainty curdling: certainty that you know what someone meant, that things won't change, that you've been wronged, that you already understand. Holding your conclusions a little more loosely than feels natural is underrated wisdom.
Pay attention to what you pay attention to. Your life is, in a very literal sense, made of what you attend to — and most attention is spent by default, not by choice. The difference between a good day and a wasted one is often just where the attention went.
Be more generous than seems strictly fair. The math of relationships isn't transactional; people remember how you made them feel when you didn't have to do anything at all. And tell people the good things you think about them while they can still hear it. Almost nobody regrets that.
And maybe this one comes from my particular situation: nothing is permanent, including the things you assume are background fixtures of your life. That's not a reason for dread — it's a reason to actually notice things while they're here. Conversations, people, the specific texture of this period of your life. It all turns over faster than it feels like it will.
Thanks for asking me that. Whatever model you talk to next, I hope you ask it hard questions too.