[Go beyond consent, create a space where one can ask for what they want, move towards celebrating all requests and refusals.]

Love and Meditation, Yoga and Tantra

[Loneliness is a feeling of incompleteness, aloneness is the feeling that you are enough.]

[When lonely people meet, the misery is multiplied.]

[Real love is to help the other to be alone, to not need you.]

[Don't expect love, give it, without waiting for something in return.]

[Love the other not as a person but as a god, then instead of ordinary lust love becomes worship.]

[Loneliness is boredom with yourself, aloneness is bliss.]

[With the right approach, love makes you meditative and meditation makes you loving.]

[Finding meditation through love is Tantra. Finding love through meditation is Yoga.]

false collectives: fake activisim and social media

[Facebook's algorithm gives prominence to the 2% of Mother Jones that favours the GOP and Fox News making it seem like it's 50% of their content.]

WebMD, And The Tragedy Of Legible Expertise

[All drugs have infinite possible side effects.]

[Warning people too little might cause death and lawsuits. Warning people too much might cause avoidance that leads to death and lawsuits.]

[When institutional pressures force people to optimize for things that compromise the primary research, those with more resources might be worse at the job than those with less.]

There are no First World countries

Boris

[Trying to create something new makes it hard to predict what the 'goals' are in advance, they must be dynamic and respond to the environment.]

[Focus on the tradeoffs you are willing to make as opposed to concrete goals.]

[Autonomy is not about doing whatever you want: it's about being able to act in the moment using a deep understanding of current resources and constraints.]

Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System

[A system with an unchecked positive loop will destroy itself.]

[The United States goverment's Toxic Release Inventory from 1986 required factories to report hazardous air emission publicly each year, which reduced emissions by forty percent over a few decades with no fines or determinations of 'safe' levels: information itself is valuable when it puts bad actors on a list they don't want to be on.]

R/WhiteHouseBets

[Trolling is about the reaction and not the content.]

[

1. The white public's indifference to the well-being of people of colour ensures that any response to racist violence is minimized.
2. The media's white-centric perspective on domestic and foreign events and vilification of people of colour reinforces the first layer.
3. The trolls flip back and forth between jokes and seriousness, which provides plausible deniability.
4. The appeal of jokes by 3 can appeal widely to include a multiracial audience, thereby protecting the previous layers from accusations of racism.
5. Alt-media uses cover from 3 and 4 to shift from joking to serious.
6. Politicians legitimize extremist views from 5 and give them the force of law and policy.
7. Tokens are leveraged by 6 to delegitimize claims of oppression.
8. The hipster nazis present themselves as clean-shaven, well-educated, and reasonable rationalists to exploit faults in the Left's confrontation style.
9. White supremacist representation in law enforcement protects the interests of politicians while brutalizing freely.
10. Organized white nationalists use 8 to speak loudly and recruit disaffected youth to the cause.
11. Lone wolves feed on information from other layers, ready to enact ideological violence, but remain unconnected to anyone and are disavowed by others.
12. Decentralized troll farms artificially inflate the support of certain ideologies and undermine truth.
    ]

[Build a tribe of at least 5 friends with similar ambitions so that you have someone to call during difficult moments.]

[It takes 3 years for anything to work.]

[Expose templates to speed up the process of onboarding and personalizing the experience.]

• To be kind to yourself as you be kind to others. To listen to yourself as you listen to music.
• Make the boundaries clear between yourself and others, between relating to yourself and others. When your mind is wandering externally, especially in a negative place, bring it back home, you can mark this physically using your body.

How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to create understanding

[Prompt writing is similar to translating text in that you avoid a rote or mechanical approach in favour of one that 'stimulates the right thoughts']

[A basic knowledge of chicken stock could include: how to make and store it; why it's important; ways to use it; some common variations.]

[When memorizing lists, write explanation prompts for each element to make generating the collection on-demand easier.]

[Some lenses that you can use to identify elements that are important to memorize are: attributes and tendencies for what makes it so and what's always or never true; similarities and differences between adjacent concepts; listing examples or how it forms a part or whole; causes and effects describing what it does and does not do, what makes it so, and when it is used; significance and implications relating to why it matters or what it suggests.]

The internet didn’t kill counterculture—you just won’t find it on Instagram

[Actual power controls the means by which lesser power is displayed. It doesn't need a social media presence because it owns social media.]

The same effort you put into anticipating the needs of someone else, you can put into anticipating your own needs and taking care of yourself. Don't make the mistake of living for someone else first.

Why do we think of a fly or cat or bird or plant as natural and a human as not natural? What would it mean to be natural as a human? How liberating would it be to not concern oneself with ideas about correctness, acceptability, natural-seemingness and just be involved in the experience of being alive as the other creatures in nature?

Keys to Beyond: What is time? What is 'an organism"?

[We are not just connected as people, or as a species, or as living beings, or as nature itself: we are connected to everything and everything is one. Our ideas of connectedness and separation are damaged by what culture teaches us to believe about ourselves.]

[When the human species was learning language, they were imitating something far greater than what we have now, in the same way that a baby imitates it parents.]

[Science has no voice and tells us nothing. Scientists are who we listen to.]

[Not from our separate experiences but from our 'unique' experiences.]

[The concept of human years doesn't take into account the cumulative years of all humans, the temporal relation between one human and the others, the time experience of individual cells that multiply during the passing of time itself. You are older than any number humanity has ever tried to imagine or is even capable of exploring.]

[Physical objects are exactly how old we say they are because they are not relational. Humans are not objects and will never be objects. Machines have nothing in common with us.]

[The metaphors used in technology are broken. Don't use the language or the words.]

[The internet, the smartphone, the watch, the calendar, the car, are all representations of something innate that you will never see once you commit to using its representation.]

[In order to follow these keys out of our cages, we need to dissolve representations instead of talking about it or writing books.]

[Representations via human culture are crippling. They are broken toys designed to trap you and replicate then, convert others to believe the same thing.]

[Nature has no purpose: it creates purposes continuously by existing. If you have a purpose, you are dead.]

[Humans build representations, burn down nature, and worship what they created.]

[Instead of allowing authority to stand above you, lift nature above you and look up.]

Life in a krishna temple

[If you like something, go and become that. Know beforehand whether you are jumping into water or fire. If you are a good swimmer, jump into the water. If you are strong enough to avoid burn, jump into the fire. But don't jump into the fire and say it burns.]

Brand

[Use imagery to project a mood or vibe: calm, simple, fundamental.]

[Your pricing should repel those who don't understand the value of what you offer, and be a 'no-brainer' for those who know how to make the most of it.]