building a new world
what it says folks, this a record of how we doin’
building a new world
there is a depth of love that is available to a woman when she can truly claim
“I don't need anything about this moment to be different. I can hold your pain, and I can hold my own. this is important”
Progress and Phenomenology: Value Is Vitality
musingmind.org
In its simplest terms, value theory asks what value is, and how we might cultivate more of it. Or, as one group of academics put it, value theory “is about how, [in] a living natural world, human beings and societal institutions co-create satisfying ways of living.
“what is a woman’s erotic capital?”
it’s her FEMININE RADIANCE
-how good she feels to be around
-the warmth of her heart
-the depth of her love
-her ability to hold you in her gaze & destroy & be tender w you all at once
and HOW DEEPLY SHE EMBODIES POWER & SELF-POSSESSION
How Can We Learn Better?
To start answering the question, I dove into the notes and work of @andy_matuschak, who is a full-time researcher on learning, and an advocate of 1. Deliberate Practice and 2. Spaced Repetition in knowledge work.
I have to be honest: though I love learning, I find both of these methods difficult and unwieldy in most cases... See more
Naturalizing "woo"
nautralizing-woo.brick.do
This "breaking out" of previous assumptions seems to me to be at the core of what people mean by the word "wisdom".
Wisdom as Embodied Frame Selection
My understanding of wisdom is that it can be described as adaptive and embodied frame selection or construal.
can’t stop thinking about how we get drained if we haven’t charged up on visual imagery in a while - it’s like our inner nature archetypes, which are reused for many cognitive tasks, degrade over time unless we keep syncing them w the real thing