”I’ve seen too many people shrink their lives into something that no longer fits, if it ever did. They're haunted by dreams they shelved for the sake of being taken seriously. Being realistic. What a waste. We weren’t meant to be reasonable.
The world tries to sedate you with schedules and mortgage rates, with efficiency goals and parking validations. It will ask you to trade your purpose for something manageable plans. To hand over your creativity in exchange for predictable returns. And if you’re not careful, you’ll wake up with a nice lawn, a white picket fence, and no idea where your joy ran off to.
There’s still something in you that is untamed. It's wild. Something that wants to open your heart to love that surprises you, to take the long route for no damn reason, to stay up too late under a starlit sky. That part of you isn’t childish. No matter what they say. It’s holy. And you’d do well to answer it before it goes quiet for good.
Don’t let the world crush you into a résumé. Don’t become one of those hollowed out souls who only know how to talk about real estate and weather. Go out singing. Go out stained with the runoff of whatever you love too much. You won’t regret that you dared. You'll regret that you didn't.
Let the wild back in. Say yes like it’s a liturgy. Say no like it’s a spell. Whatever you do, don’t settle for a second hand life that never truly cared for who you are.
Because damnit...this is your life. This. It's the one you've got. Use it.” - RAINIER WYLDE
The Unreasonable Art of Living
#65 - Why your ‘reasonable life’ might be killing your joy.
#65 - Why your ‘reasonable life’ might be killing your joy.
The Unreasonable Art of Living
This is my life’s work in public. A raw documentation of the unreasonable art of living: thoughts, failures, experiments, emotions, conversations. I’m figuring it out as I go, learning, building, questioning, creating.
The podcast is also where my co-founder Justin and I document our journey building Eleven Dunbar, what it actually feels like to launch something that matters. The tension. The doubt. The meaning behind it.
And because intensity needs balance, we started a new format: I teach Justin AI tools while we build the internet’s strangest, most impractical ideas, submitted by you. Everything we make gets open-sourced.
This is for the engineer who secretly writes poetry, the founder or leader who wants to learn how to play again, the artist curious about how AI can expand their expression, and the builder who refuses to become typical.
This is about staying original in an age of automation.
About mastering the art of being human.
“The reasonable person adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable person.” - George Bernard Shaw
This is my life’s work in public. A raw documentation of the unreasonable art of living: thoughts, failures, experiments, emotions, conversations. I’m figuring it out as I go, learning, building, questioning, creating.
The podcast is also where my co-founder Justin and I document our journey building Eleven Dunbar, what it actually feels like to launch something that matters. The tension. The doubt. The meaning behind it.
And because intensity needs balance, we started a new format: I teach Justin AI tools while we build the internet’s strangest, most impractical ideas, submitted by you. Everything we make gets open-sourced.
This is for the engineer who secretly writes poetry, the founder or leader who wants to learn how to play again, the artist curious about how AI can expand their expression, and the builder who refuses to become typical.
This is about staying original in an age of automation.
About mastering the art of being human.
“The reasonable person adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable person.” - George Bernard ShawAppears in episode
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