[Perfection without future evolution is dead.]
[Danger is life, and only the dead are beyond risk.]
[Obsession with a secure path leads to marriage and society.]
Interesting when things are impeccably organized and everything has an ID number, yet its impossible to count.
[The COVID pandemic has given the current generation a perpetual example of how we’re all connected across the planet, which makes it worthwhile to address our problems: there is no longer an African problem or ‘so-and-so’ problem because our interdependence makes it necessary to fight for each other.]
[The popular usage of NFTs is a mechanism to convince people to buy more crypto, thus providing liquidity for early entrants.]
[The average user on spam NFT Discords is middle-class with disposable income and uncertain about their financial future.]
[Flexing by way of buying a Times Square ad is to signal credibility to validate buyers sense of having made the right decision.]
[Sell the token first and leave ’token holders’ to decide what happens with the capital, if they overcome collective inertia—there is no product.]
[Putting all the data in one place, even if it’s in a space you ‘control’, is centralizing (specifically as a point of failure.]
[Broadcasting your unique identifier across the internet feeds into a surveillance ecosystem.]
[When the technical cost of making a modern website became to high for most amateurs, they moved from templates to services and then platforms.]
[DAOs settle for only expressing procedural group operations through code because it’s too complicated to design and account for all contingencies and their contingencies.]
[Crypto evangelist want to relegate all consequences to machines via blockchains and DAOs to abdicate humans of any responsibility for bad outcomes.]
Whitepaper | Circles UBI | Handbook:
[Everyone has their own currency operating by a shared set of rules, culminating to form a kind of monetary fabric.]
[Each personal currency mints new coins for the associated person every minute, and the quantity inflates each year.]
[To mitigate the risk of any account turning into a sybil, trust can be revoked, which allows the revoker to continue spending the revokee’s coins but not receive new coins from them.]
[If Carol and Bob are strangers (not yet established mutual trust) but both extend trust to Alice, they can send each other money by transacting in AliceCoin; through transitive chains of trust Carol and Bob receive BobCoin and CarolCoin, respectively.]
[If a trusted person creates a Fake account, other people cannot receive FakeCoin until they trust it, and that person can only spend it if other people trust it.]
[People receive CRC unconditionally and the supply is constantly increasing, which incentivizes spending (flowing) over hoarding.]
[The current dominant monetary system is like agricultural monoculture, which devitalizes the soil and requires pesticides to protect. Circles is more diverse:] if you lose your strawberry fields, you will still have your roses and potatoes and cannabis.
[Being careless with trust in Circles mostly hurts you personally and not the whole system.]
[Trust limits are the percentage of your Circles that you are willing to hold in a given person’s coin (50% by default, but may be lowered or cancelled eventually); they prevent you from losing all your tokens through transitive transactions.]
[You can start your own local Circles community without three trust connections by sending 0.1–0.2 xDAI to your account, but this will only be useful if you invite your network to exchange products and services with you.]
[“Shared wallets” do not issue UBI or receive trust, but they can be opened and shared by anyone in a group or organization. Businesses should not use personal wallets because taxes are complicated.]
[UBI stops if you don’t log into your wallet for 90 days, thus incentivizes meaningful usage. To receive UBI after that you need to create a new wallet and transfer over your old CRC.]
[Circles is not on any crypto exchange as it is meant for spending, not for getting rich. You might convince someone to give you other currencies for your tokens, but the peer-to-peer nature of Circles makes it hard to give liquidity to the whole network.]
[The co-op covers transaction costs on the xDAI chain so that buyers and sellers can use the marketplace for free.]
[Response is from the situation whereas reaction is from habit.]
Realizer.
Rahul Vohra’s 7 principles of game design
[The conditions for flow include: 1) knowing what to do next; 2) knowing how to do it; 3) being distraction-free; 4) receiving clear and immediate feedback; 5) feeling a balance between challenge and skill.]
[Bliss is just a word: you can desire it but not know what it is. Only one who has tasted it can give it to you, and without doing anything: from their presence alone the unknown flows toward you.]
[A master is an availability, not a teacher. A teacher may not know, having perhaps learned from other teachers. A master gives you a taste.]
[A guru has not mastered anything, or gone through training, or disciplines himself. Rather than mastering art, they have lived life completely, natural, and loose—without force, by moving with the winds and allowing nature its course. Through millions of experiences of suffering, pain, bliss, happiness, they have matured. Ripe and heavy with the fruit, ready to fall, they can fall into you if you are ready to receive. Pregnant and heavy with the divine, he is ready to pour down, only a thirsty earth is needed.]
[A guru is God’s address.]
[A great teaching doesn’t give you instructions for doing, as it is concerned with your being.]
You are already that which you can be.
[Picking my phone, looking at the lock screen, and putting it down again is enough for me to take a break.]
[Apps that check in by asking ‘are you still watching?’]
[Technology provides a sense of bubble-ness, a place to go. Like a parent that’s always there for you.]
[Acknowledge the different parts of you that might be in conflict with each other.]
Precisely at the moment distraction begins, take a huge slow breath, feeling the air in your lungs, and continue with awareness, observing as much as possible.
collection of video games UI interfaces, screenshots and videos.
Did anyone tell you how awesome you are for doing what you’re doing right now?
Beau of the Fifth Column doesn’t have an ending tag, doesn’t ask to like/share/subscribe, doesn’t ask for anything and only gives.
[If someone says ’there is no time to rest because it compromises a goal’, tantra says running and being in a hurry causes one to miss.]
[Yogis who simply fast and repeat mantras are dulling their nervous systems and ability to respond.]
[Standing on your head for extended periods overflows the tiny nerves and destroy them. Humans keep the blood flow regulated by standing, whereas animals keep their brain at body level.]
[Remaining homeless helps you find the real home. Avoid abiding anywhere and you’ll abide in yourself. You can enjoy a relationship but don’t cling.]
[The parable of the prodigal son] means that if you remain on the right path, you will not be celebrated by existence. You will be a simpleton, you will not be enriched by life. You will not have any salt in you; you may be nutritious, but no spices. You will be very simple, good, but your goodness will not have a complex harmony in it. You will be a single note, not millions of notes falling into a melody. You will be a straight line, with no curves and no corners. Those curves and corners give a beauty, they make life more mysterious, they give depth. You will be shallow in your sainthood, you will not have any depth in you.
[Mantra forces the causes into your unconscious, delaying transformation. Tantra awakens for better awareness.]
[The symptom is useful in that it keeps nagging you when something is wrong.]
[Never seek someone to help: only an enlightened on can help, and it flows naturally. A true master never tries to change anyone: like a subtle fragrance they surround you and enter only if you take a whiff.]
[Meditation is just coming back home to rest, not even a prayer or mantra.]
Your seeking creates a smoke around the flame. You go on running around and around, you stir much dust, and you create much smoke, and it is your own effort that stirs the dust and creates the smoke, and the flame becomes hidden. Rest a little, let the dust settle back to the earth. And if you are not running very fast, not in a hurry, you will not create smoke. By and by, things settle and the inner light is revealed.
[The idle mind is not of the devil but of God. By being empty we are able to receive.]
[You don’t sleep by doing anything: when activity stops, you simply go into sleep.]
[Relaxation means the moment is enough: feeling yourself, and being present is so satisfying it’s too much.]
[Activity is goal-oriented and constantly turns the present into a means for the future, thus ensuring relaxation remains on the horizon and never comes.]
[The celebrator doesn’t need to create anything because everything already exists and they are grateful for the abundance.]
[Don’t desire anything, including spiritual things, God, or liberation. When you are desire-less, the seed explodes.]
We’re accustomed to carry out activities with some kind of objective. Normalizing this makes it uncomfortable when nothing is being accomplished. Finishing something early and confronting stillness and silence invokes a reflex to fill space by checking your phone or notifications, distracting yourself for fear of a void. It feels wrong to simply breathe, stretch, exercise, practice capoeira movements outside the context of a structured activity: “can’t just sit and breathe for the rest of my life, gotta actually do something”. Nothing is possible without breathing: mental and physical health is necessary for accomplishing anything, so it’s strange that we’re afraid to connect with it in an unstructured context.
Each moment of stillness is actually a gift: we can celebrate an opportunity to focus on the gaps. We’re always breathing in the background, so stopping gives us a chance to pay attention to the whitespace, or darkspace. Enjoy connecting with it like meeting an old friend. The tendency to ask “I did my breath, now what?” might be an anxiety about the activity not having a well-defined start and end time, so we can practice being there without expectations, and when something compels us into action, we are free to move on.
[We like people in so many ways (physically, or as a friend, or socially, or intellectually) and when we break up, we need to break each of those aspects before leaving.]
Everyone Can Build a Twitter Audience
[Describe interesting things you’ve done in your life to build credibility: share what you learned or what someone like you would want to know.]
[You can document things that have already happened. Some of it might resonate with others.]
[An indicator of credibility is that people will want to ask you questions to learn more about your experience.]
[It wasn’t the book, but documenting how I published it that gave me credibility in self-publishing.]
[Success is not followers but people wanting to hear what you have to say.]
[They either need to be getting something from you or getting to know you as a person.]
[Giving means they stop on your tweet and don’t regret it. Asking means anything that benefits you directly, like clicking links.]
[Use your pinned tweet to gain credibility.]
[Inspiration can be something interesting that happened today, things that took a lot of effort to figure out, answers you gave in your conversations that could be relevant to your audience.]
[Find the intersection of interesting to you, interesting to your audience, and having credibility to say it.]
[Don’t tag people hoping they’ll notice you.]
[Build your credibility, promote it everywhere, and look for opportunities to build more credibility.]
[Give and ask with a seven to one ratio.]