A Story of Stories

[Viable story viruses need to be teachable and understandable for simplicity, hard to disprove and specific as absolute truth for conviction, and applicable to a wide range of people for spreadability.]

[To drive behaviour of its host, story viruses needs promises of pleasure or pain to create incentives, claims that your behaviour will be known to facilitate accountability, coverage of the spectrum that humans believe for comprehensiveness.]

[Story evolution favours the hosts who survive.]

[Dehumanization adds superglue to the story to make it not only okay but one's 'duty' to kill the other.]

[Having a supreme leader and identifying yourself with the story ('I am a [story]ist') creates the tribal mindset that enables larger groups of humans to act in concert.]

[A tribe's military fights external threats. The police fight cancer.]

Money through the eyes of Mowgli

[The Tarzan suite analyses from the fully-formed individual onwards: the nodes make up the network. The Mowgli suite starts from interdependance and a child that needs to be cared for: the network makes the node.]

[The idea of passing a random stranger on the street did not exist in the past, as survival implied being a part of tightly-knit groups.]

[Nation states are only about 5000 years old and have dissolved the boundaries between smaller collectives to create 'the public', which we are vaguely connected to but do not know.]

[The image of 'prehistoric wilderness man' we consider today is a caricature. Primitive life was not 'solo men creating shelter and hunting' but intensely group-oriented collaboration, as can be seen in photos of indigenous tribes.]

[The myth of self-sufficiency assumes that interacting with others and trading is optional, as opposed to a mandatory means of survival.]

[The natural mechanism of 'life' is a sort of credit, where people give you things to help you survive without any immediate or precise expectation of return. You might pay it back informally or pay it forward.]

Let's talk about my morning routine and plot holes....

[Does it make sense? Is it feasable? Is it logistically plausible? Does the motive match the ends? Are there plot holes? If all that checks out, look at their 'evidence'.]

[How would I do it if I was the mastermind?]

Can I Get Some Feedback on That, Please?

[Be on your own side.]

[A can see you're trying to do x, y, z. Here's what seems to be helping with that. Recognize that they're doing their best.]

[Sometimes asking for feedback might be asking for permission.]

[Might be easier to receive exact feedback directed at someone else because you know they received it.]

The Age of Community: Building, Growing and Changing the World

[Each person nominates the next person to introduce themselves, distribute the responsibility of delegating.]

[Sometimes things happen through second and third-order effects and you need to simply turn your back on the main thing.]

[An interest community can also be a place to make friends.]

[A community never dies because the principles that led to its coming together are still in play.]

[Empower and showcase.]

[Some domains like pottery still take time and do not change as technical paradigms accelerate. Email was slow but now is fast whereas making a pot takes days.]

[This is your community, take charge of it.]

[Suggest one project that inspires you.]

[Low hanging fruit can be industries that don't engage with people that are like you.]

[Tell more stories.]

[De no solamente tener amigos pero de sentir ellos,]

Hania Rani: Live from Studio S2

Live recording which makes me want to play the piano again. At various points she plays while touching the strings to create percussive sounds. The set merges electronic and acoustic, and she also sings on some tracks. It’s always special to see people pushing the boundaries of live music-making.

The Best of Mildred Bailey | Jazz Music (1930s)

This compilation of music features some lovely stride jazz piano. My first time hearing this singer.

Jorge Ben: Força Bruta (1970)

Mixes complex harmonies with Brazilian dance rhythms, orchestra with folk instruments, and is generally a good time.

Sam Gendel and Sam Wilkes: Music for Saxofone and Bass Guitar (2018)

Full of strange and wonderfully creative sounds, beatboxing, and melody-less improvising, all of which were recorded live with something like loop pedals. I really dug the mouth percussion and head-banging stank face grooves on THEEM AND VARIATIONS; as well as the beat from dental fricatives on GREETINGS TO IDRIS. The inconspicuously-named TRACK ONE has this remarkable throat falsetto riff and manages to build a movement-inducing rhythm that simultaneously feels sparse and full-bodied, drizzled with a solo of quartal explorations on thirteenth chords.

[Internalizers don't act out their emotions immediately and instead let them foster and intensify.]

[The idea that one day they will change is a healing fantasy, created by a child's mind and not adapted to adult reality.]

[The child of emotionally immature parent creates a role-self that transforms into what the parent wants them to be.]

[The role-self has no energy of its own and needs to steal from true self. It is insecure because it's made-up and afraid of being revealed as an imposter.]

[Healing fantasy of people being there for me. Role-self of being available.]

John Collison – Growing the Internet Economy

[Products that succeed in the United States are not the same as those that succeed in other countries. The local customs in Indonesia, or even in the UK, can necessitate a different approach.]

[Anger is a normal response to abandonment, and we can experience it even when feeling unseen or unheard.]

[Enmeshment is different from emotional intimacy. The former implies fulfilling roles that re-inforce dependency whereas the latter implies building trust through getting to know each other and mutual acceptance.]

The Art of Productive Disagreement

[Being civil, skirting around difficult topics isn't enough.]

[Disagreement is rarely about facts, but about values.]

[Seeing what happens, making a prediction and then wait, implies there's nothing to argue about. Everyone learns something. It's a way of creating rituals.]

[Celebrate cognitive dissonance from being wrong because it's a sign of learning.]

[In new spaces, ask what is nobody allowed to talk about. The closer it is to the surface, the more taboo it might be.]

[Put the facts aside: what does each party want? what do they think is going to happen? How much is it going to change the future? Let's check back in a month, no rush to solve this, we'll still be friends, it's about our relationship.]

[Biases are functional and everyone needs them to survive.]

[Parental rejection can result in the child lacking confidence that others can be interested in them. Instead of asking for what they want, they avoid interacting out kf fear to burden someone else.]

[The need and desire for deep connection is not merely human, but genetic, coming from evolutionary imperative to be part of the group for survival.]

[Dismissively saying that one didn't mean it is a way to egocentrically focus on the intention as opposed to the negative impact of bad actions.]

[Not knowing who you are or being given space to explore it is like having puzzle pieces that don't fit together, which results in inconsistency.]

[Inconsistency can maladaptively bond the parent and child because the once in a while there is a reward.]