Not all bricks are nourishing. Be aware of what is being practiced.
Not all bricks are nourishing. Be aware of what is being practiced.
Nature is abundant. Nature does not imagine.
[Happiness is a choice.]
How can we appropriate the mind's repetition and 'latching onto things' to reinforce healthy practices?
[Focus on laying a perfect brick everyday and eventually you'll look up and there will be a wall.]
What can I say or offer as a pleasant surprise to the other person?
[Recognize when nothing seems to be working and stop, wait, meditate, reboot. Don't force anything.]
[Use the things for which people pick on you as a base to rest into. Someone has an issue with your skin color? Relax into your skin. With your weirdness? Be boldly weird. With your insecurities? Be radically vulnerable.]
[Go beyond consent, create a space where one can ask for what they want, move towards celebrating all requests and refusals.]
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- The white public's indifference to the well-being of people of colour ensures that any response to racist violence is minimized.
- The media's white-centric perspective on domestic and foreign events and vilification of people of colour reinforces the first layer.
- The trolls flip back and forth between jokes and seriousness, which provides plausible deniability.
- The appeal of jokes by 3 can appeal widely to include a multiracial audience, thereby protecting the previous layers from accusations of racism.
- Alt-media uses cover from 3 and 4 to shift from joking to serious.
- Politicians legitimize extremist views from 5 and give them the force of law and policy.
- Tokens are leveraged by 6 to delegitimize claims of oppression.
- The hipster nazis present themselves as clean-shaven, well-educated, and reasonable rationalists to exploit faults in the Left's confrontation style.
- White supremacist representation in law enforcement protects the interests of politicians while brutalizing freely.
- Organized white nationalists use 8 to speak loudly and recruit disaffected youth to the cause.
- Lone wolves feed on information from other layers, ready to enact ideological violence, but remain unconnected to anyone and are disavowed by others.
- Decentralized troll farms artificially inflate the support of certain ideologies and undermine truth.
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[Build a tribe of at least 5 friends with similar ambitions so that you have someone to call during difficult moments.]
[It takes 3 years for anything to work.]
[Expose templates to speed up the process of onboarding and personalizing the experience.]
The same effort you put into anticipating the needs of someone else, you can put into anticipating your own needs and taking care of yourself. Don't make the mistake of living for someone else first.
Why do we think of a fly or cat or bird or plant as natural and a human as not natural? What would it mean to be natural as a human? How liberating would it be to not concern oneself with ideas about correctness, acceptability, natural-seemingness and just be involved in the experience of being alive as the other creatures in nature?
[Your pricing should repel those who don't understand the value of what you offer, and be a 'no-brainer' for those who know how to make the most of it.]
[Anti-marketing is deliberately focusing about what is confusing, frustrating, or dysfunctional, as a way to stimulate public conversation without success bias.]
[Patrons often see themselves as funding future work moreso than paying for past work.]
[Each of these four motivations were expressed by at least 10% of respondents: feeling on the edge of something new; participating in the crowdfunding experiment; being inspired by seeing the work up close.]
[The best way to grow your newsletter/podcast/blog is to get featured on one by someone else.]
The questions and answers reveal what was not asked.
Every mistake I make now is one I don't have to make later.