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.]
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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.
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Experiments, works-in-progress & under construction, mundane or extraordinary.
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[People will pay a lot of money to talk.]
How to Build a Life You Love by Quitting Everything Else
[Most people start by building something without asking what problem they're trying to solve.]
How 150 personal emails sparked a community of 60,000 entrepreneurs
[Turn your process for advancing into a series of ascending steps.]
[Create something of value and put a price on it.]
[Makers are happy to create. IndieHackers want to make money.]
Constraints, Longevity, and Avoiding Competition with John O'Nolan from Ghost
[Blogging used to be writing about your experiences.]
[Use a paywall to give yourself space.]
[Enable an ecosystem of businesses to thrive around what you build.]
[It's like they have a phobia of snakes and your openness and emotional connectivity are a bucket of slithery snakes.]
[Settle into a detached observational state by counting your breaths slowly, or tensing and relaxing your muscles in sequence.]
[Instead of associating them with a binary state, observe as a scientist: what words describe their facial expression? what is their body language communicating? does their voice sound calm or tense? how do they respond when you try to relate? what do you feel?]
[Getting emotional is a sign that your healing fantasy has been activated. The feeling of distress and weakness is a signal to shift into observation mode: repeat to yourself 'detach, detach, detach' and try to find the exact words to describe the experience, which can be what they're doing or how you're feeling.]
[Relatedness has no objective of a satisfying emotional exchange.]
Let's talk about context, sources, and links....
[Important to fact-check not by simply following someone's link because it will obviously support their position. Use search engines.]
Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags
[Publishing is a statement of quality when expensive and inaccessible. When it's cheap and ubiquitous, quality is determined after the fact, by how people point to it.]
Let's talk about tactics to reach a different hesitant demographic....
[Contrarians can try to describe who's benefiting from this conspiracy without saying 'they', being specific.]
[Intuition may not always be accurate, or people might not be listening to it.]
