Who do you trust (when you don’t trust the news)?
[If manufacturers of cars bear some responsibility for your private vehicle's safety issues, as airplane manufacturers would if flights put people in danger, perhaps so should social media companies for presenting alternative realities that lead to real world catastrophes.]
[Clients don't value your effort or service as much as how it makes them feel or the possibilities it opens for them, so charge who's willing to pay for that.]
254: Language Transfer with Mihalis Eleftheriou
[We tend to teach by showing but that's not always what's most effective; dogs and cats do that too. Sometimes it's better to explain with words what is helpful for the learner.]
[We're already translating thoughts into language.]
[Xenophobia that occurs naturally as a brain resonse needs help and solutions more than ostracizing, and learning the foreign language can be super helpful there.]
[All grief is one: like touching the ocean at any of the imaginary lines we've drawn, it's all one body of water.]
[When my partner senses that I'm holding back grief and invites me with a simple gesture like a hand on the shoulder, it's hard to meet them there but I try to anyway, because to say "no worries, everything's fine" would be to negate their good instincts for how I'm feeling.]
[I appreciate things that make me cry because they give me the chance to shed a few more of the tears repressed during childhood, when I had learned that doing so was dangerous.]
Erin Kissane leaving the internet
[Pretender technologies may only appear to be the next thing, without eventually changing anything, but they can function as a playspace to try possible futures.]
[If we want better networks, we must concretely understand what happened to us, and then use that knowledge to try new things deliberately, with painstaking attention to the human cost.]
[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.]
Peanut butter soya cucumber salad
Tagged: recipe.
Poncianinho’s Vlog 8 “Other Side”
[The sun made me want to practice.]
[Advice should be like snow: the more gentle it falls, the longer it stays.]
Tagged: capoeira.
The road to mastery 1 by Mestre Poncianinho
[Learn to be comfortable with getting motivated to work when you plateau and not give up.]
Let’s make homemade oat milk! 🥣🥛☕️
Tagged: recipe.
Many tools make a good toolbox.
[Small talk is a test to see how people respond to meaningless things and determine whether it's worth bringing up more serious things.]
Tagged: recipe.
If we were compatible, we’d know exactly what the other person meant all the time, right?
[Language is primarily for internal use to construct our own worldviews, rather than a tool for communication with others.]
[What does it mean to feel disgust at bodies similar to yours?]
[Trying something to decide whether you like it or gives you perspective rather than putting you in a box.]
I was taught something, so now i know it, right?
[Nothing can be taught, there is only learning.]
[Having read about a topic or participated in a workshop does not mean knowing it, which is painfully obvious in the trades.]
Let's talk about keeping your community network going....
[Cross train your community network on manuals by letting each person pick a specific part to master and then teaching it to the group.]
[Keep things interesting by meeting up without a specific plan, deciding something fun together, and getting to it right away from there.]
[Build a network resource together through labour or by chipping in funds.]
[Perhaps obsession with individualism shames us if we are 'less disciplined' when 'alone', while blinding us to how functional it is to live your best through other people.]
Let's talk about a rabbit hole with foreign policy....
[Foreign policy supports domestic policy, so changing the former starts with deep systemic change in the latter.]
