How to Stand Up for Yourself

[When someone asks 'why' after you respond to their request with 'no, you can say "it's not what's best for me right now", "it's outside my focus right now", "I need to make another choice".]

How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence

[When you feel the tightening up and defensiveness that comes with someone trying to 'prove' or 'persuade' their perspective, consider focusing on what question to ask so that you can learn something.]

[Feeling triggered is a prompt to understand what provoked it.]

Does AI benefit the world?

[We did this three-session activity three times during the year: first for cars, then the internet, then generative AI.]

[Global impact doesn't lend itself to simple numerical representations, as what the numbers represent may not be evenly distributed.]

[Generative models are often discussed in terms of potential impact decades from now, so to start by measuring something that has already existed for decades helps ground discussion in less theoretical terms.]

[If we network homogeneously, our surrounding opinions will tend to conform similarly.]

Peanut butter soya cucumber salad

Ingredients

• 1 cucumber, sliced
• 2 tbsp peanut butter
• 1 splash of soya
• msg
• chilli crunch
• rice wine vinegar
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• sesame seeds
• sesame oil

Method

• Put everything in a container, then close and shake well to mix.

Poncianinho’s Vlog 8 “Other Side”

[The sun made me want to practice.]

Capoeira Podcast

[Advice should be like snow: the more gentle it falls, the longer it stays.]

The road to mastery 1 by Mestre Poncianinho

[Learn to be comfortable with getting motivated to work when you plateau and not give up.]

[Scoping out a scene that isn't aware of itself.]

Cachila: Uruguay – Tambores del Candombe N° 2 (2009)

Pure vocal percussion, sometimes with actual drums. Can't help but solo or move on some of these explosive rhythmic drives. Some tracks fuse conversation, sound play, and humour.