[War can be "popular" but never the collective choice of a population.]
[War can be "popular" but never the collective choice of a population.]
Body connection is our desired "magnificent integration of all the things", with electricity built-in.
Physical training, daily routines, and food choices can be spaces to practice building your path based on having a memory of what you did, which is a reflex in musical composition and improvisation.
Individual practice without the intensity of group training may seem less "intense" or "focused" as you find your way, but it also takes extra energy to self-organize and adapt so that sessions are possible in environments that are fluctuating, noisy, less private, not purpose-built, or adverse for other reasons.
Why just wash my hands with soap and water when I can hand-wash the dishes with soap and water?
"Inevitable" often means "would love to do that without your consent".
To enjoy breathing can mean enjoying the rest of your life.
AI: Artificial Ingredients
[Reading a physical book gives me a choice to turn the page, look away, put it down, and trust that it will be as I left it when coming back.]
[Surprising someone changes their world.]
no presents, only presence
[When you move somewhere on your own, you might wonder if you'll ever "fit in" or feel at home. As long as you look honestly at yourself and your needs, be your truest form, and give it generously to others, you'll find where you belong.]
👎🏽: talking about people you never met
👍🏽: meet them, talk with them
politicians play, civilians pay
One consequence of reading infrequently is falsely believing that most of your experiences and options are defined by that other thing you're doing. Like traveling, you can choose to see other perspectives and also absorb that there is space to do so.
don't blame the beginner if you know better
culture has no website
engagement-bait accounts love to weaponize Cunningham's law:
"the best way to get the right answer on the internet is to post the wrong answer"
it's a lose-lose for the target because if you don't reply it allows misinformation to spread, if you do reply it boosts the post
self-hosting is complex when nerds only consider other nerds
You may have seen Andrej Karpathy's post on his "LLM Wiki" — Markdown notes in a Git repo, edited by an LLM, and read in Obsidian. It's a very effective pattern.
TiddlyWiki turns the vault into something live. Index files that LLMs have to keep manually in sync become computed views that always reflect reality. YAML frontmatter becomes a small queryable database the LLM can sort and filter against. And the LLM can author not just notes but small interactive views — dashboards, glossaries, journal indexes — that compose with your own customisations.
In short: a notes folder becomes a programmable surface.