“In dreams, as in daily life, the same laws operate: the more one is detached, the more one can enjoy perceiving all of existence as a vast playground. The less one is detached, the more life turns into a dead end. Dreaming thus taught me, paradoxically, to wake up and maintain a lucid current as a thread of existence, even if this requires a major effort. Because God knows how marvelous life can be when one is, above all, open to its magic!”

- Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psychomagic

Hello everyone!

My apologies for such a late Late Night Letter.

I live with many spinning plates at the moment. Every once in a while, they all require attention at the same time. With the exceptions of eating and exercise I’ve just been juggling non-stop, 8am to 1am since Monday, and I am beat.

In lieu of a letter tonight, I am releasing YESMAN INTERVIEW — a live interview I did with the Yesman himself at this year’s (utterly magnificent) Festival of Yes.

Alex, the Yesman, is a great friend and easily one of the most rad, vibrant, ringing-with-life humans I have ever met. It was a grand pleasure to discuss and share the power, usefulness, and philosophy of “yes” with him, a central pillar to the dude’s infectiously inspirational way of being.

Since meeting on the Big Island of Hawaii in 2015, “yes” has been a means of engaging with the world that has enriched and changed both of our lives — especially the Yesman’s, though. “Yes” has led the dude into stage-diving at heavy metal concerts, sunrise hot air balloon rides, giving his graduation speech, being interviewed as a real life yesman on NPR’s The Pulse, and throwing my favorite festival on planet Earth.

I highly recommend giving it a listen.

With love & stoke,

Ethan

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YESMAN INTERVIEW

An interview with the Yesman himself @ Festival of Yes 2024.

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