34 entries for October 2021

[Therapists are responsible for maintaining the container, the walls of a safe space.]

[You can open things up when the container has integrity.]

The Memex Method. When your commonplace book is a public…

[If it seems significant I will blog about why I think it's important and what it adds to the picture.]

[It's neither my last word nor a repetition of what I have to say.]

it represents the synthesis of recent events with a long run of earlier events, interventions, scandals and actions. Further, it represents the evolution of my ability to convey these complex and thorny ideas, based on the reception earlier pieces on the same subject received.

[If writing is about clarifying your thoughts, your older work will naturally make you cringe. But systematically reviewing older work to observe what you got wrong and right makes it easier to avoid your own pitfalls. The structure can even be a public recap of what happened 5, 10, and 15 years ago on this day.]

[By the time someone arrives at your paywall, they've already used your app so much that they probably trust you more than if it was some random app they just found.]

[If you're not sure which kind of yoga, try them all.]

[What's it like to believe the same thing for fifty years and then have that challenged?]

Being alone with your thoughts is a skill you can practise

[67 percent of the men and 25 percent of the women who participated in the study chose to intentionally shock themselves rather than be alone with their thoughts.]

[Having a list of enjoyable topics to consult can make it easier to think for pleasure.]

The Problem With War: You Break It You Buy It

[The launch is for everyone that has to know. The next releases are for everyone who wants to know.]

[Labeling people heroes means we will let them die.]

[If you don't have the courage to make something illegal, make it impossible.]

[You're living off the land in the digital world. Digital homesteading.]

[The basis of hintustani music is the raga. The basis of carnatic music is the composition.]

[Los Angeles suffers from an 'over the shoulder effect' where people are sometimes distracted while engaging with you, thinking about who's more interesting around.]

It's nice to be surprised, to talk about something we didn't expect to talk about. Avoiding expectations facilitation perpetual surprise?

By doing, we understand better structures for doing.

[People will pay a lot of money to talk.]