Wanting Crooked Lines

Davey Morse, writing on LessWrong, describes stepping away from his venture startup after two years because he felt his perception flattening—his strangeness and power decreasing in the venture game despite protections he'd established. He returned half a million dollars to investors and shifted toward direct human work: tutoring, coaching, and community care. Morse reflects on how structured thinking—the language of corporations, digital feeds, and linear logic—compresses multi-dimensional human experience into reductive forms. He contrasts this with Buddhist traditions that celebrate uncertainty and interconnectedness, closing with a question about whether crooked lines might actually hold us better than straight ones.

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