building a new world
what it says folks, this a record of how we doin’
building a new world
I’m always fascinated by how people partition and label time in their mjnds. For a lot of people, forever/always is 3-7 years
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.
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.
whenever I try to put together some kind of “master resource” it almost always ends up being overwrought and tedious
when I write something like a personal recommendation doc for a friend, it almost always ends up being useful for other people and way easier to share too
“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