Generosity and kindness, to yourself and everyone.
Generosity and kindness, to yourself and everyone.
[The UNIX command line is a success story of software extensibility because it efficiently allows for infinite combinations of smaller programs to create a workflow.]
[The spreadsheet and scratch do not require mental abstractions because the workings of the program are made apparent through visual embodiment.]
[The spreadsheet and the developer tools console shorten the save/build/run loop until it no longer exists, thus allowing someone to interact with a living system that responds in real-time.]
[In-place tool-chains allow users to leverage familiar concepts from everyday use and extend their experience.]
Constantly seeking expansive experiences makes it less relevant to keep score or be petty.
The Importance Of Making Everything Easier
[Means testing ultimately creates bureaucracy that impedes those in need while the wealthy continue to pay their way ahead.]
A Meditation for Letting Thoughts Float By Like Bubbles
[To notice having been lost in a thought is more than okay, it's a moment of awakening.]
[Reflect on what could have made a previous loss a future win.]
[Cleaning the house can be a way to become mindful of body movements and muscle sensations.]
Stack Exchange's Ana Noemi Defines the Five Ingredients of an Enduring Community
[Give without a transaction and contribute to the commons.]
[Create a reason for members to self-identify as part of the community.]
[Clarify what are the shared values and coordinate around these.]
[Encourage customs and rituals to enable more shared experiences.]
[Empower individuals instead of centralizing government.]
Realizing that the interface was always creating several layers of abstraction that wasn't necessary to express ideas, at least initially. Work directly with the material.
The word practice is used to indicate a process, a non-binary state, a working towards something, a guiding oneself through the current moment. Other activities advance through directing the body, whereas meditation through directing the mind
[Ask questions before reading the book, perhaps by turning the headings into questions.]
[Explain it to yourself or someone else after, maybe publish your own summary online.]
[Share magic with those around you, create magicians.]
A 10-Minute Practice for Doing Nothing
Whatever you're experiencing in this moment is what it's like to be you
[For the next minute, everything that happens is okay, accept it all.]
Let's talk about work stoppages, generally..
[General strikes work because various industries stopping at the same time lowers the GDP and creates pressure felt by those who fund politicians.]
[It is important to have community networks during a strike so that word spreads to everyone and that the actions are coordinated.]
Great leaders take blame and pass along credit
To share an idea with someone as soon as you conceive it
Curiosity seeks to annihilate itself; there is no curiosity that does not want an answer.
[Surrender to the truth in the very moment you realize you are resisting.]
As your mind becomes more silent you hear more noise.
[If someone's persuading you to buy something, you probably don't need it.]
[If you have no solution, the problem is already solved.]
Neither closed nor with expectations. To be open without attachment to specific outcomes.