12 entries for India

When are you leaving?

Recently, a phrase I have been saying has been, “One hand cleans the other,” and that’s how I see it in many ways. I need to continue on my Way. I have to get rid of things one way or the other. For me to give them to people who need them, who will use them, who will love them, that’s a huge bonus. It’s like 1+1=3. Like there are cheat codes in the game of life. Helping you find a copy of Snowcrash you’ve been looking for helps me get rid of a book I haven’t finished reading in 8 years. And along the way, joy and gratitude are created from nothing.

There is a place beyond words and beyond understanding; don’t run away from it. When you rest in it, not knowing is knowing. Good is bad. Right is wrong. I am you. The space between objects shrinks to nothing. To grasp it, let go. To control it, surrender. To succeed, fail. To know, don’t.

you can spend half an hour on projects or goals that intimidate you, and progress even if you just observe your discomfort and where it might come from.

Our Crisis of Imagination

We’re trapped in an era of fatalism, unable to envision alternatives to the models of ownership and funding beyond current extractive defaults. We’ve agreed that innovation can touch every aspect of our lives — except the structures that shape them. This isn’t just a failure of imagination — it’s a feature of those very structures.

From Protest to Proposal

Proposals require us to answer difficult questions that protesting alone does not: Who will build it? How will it be funded? How will it compete and self-sustain? What trade-offs are we willing to accept?

psa to please help your friends setup tech alternatives as a social event: switch together so everyone transitions successfully with known contacts on the new platform. lone profiles leave momentum on the table.

like a paywall requires money to access, a nerdwall requires technical knowhow

[Getting near is important for seeing clear. If we avoid those who think differently, our understanding risks to be superficial.]

from observing what you see to observing how you watch

when heading somewhere people ask “have everything you’ll need?” and as a backpacker i respond “i took everything i have”.

when someone uses a different system of understanding than yours, responding with “try my system instead” is not convincing.

Can you use a hammer without injuring yourself? Give Habitat for Humanity a call. Are you a budgeting ninja? Call Boys and Girls Club and offer to teach young men and women to budget. Do your friends tell you that you talk too much? Go to a retirement home and talk with people who have long been forgotten.

there is no language without a listener who can understand what is being said.