Journal

131 entries under "talk"

Friday, November 29, 2024

Top five business lessons

[Clients don’t value your effort or service as much as how it makes them feel or the possibilities it opens for them, so charge who’s willing to pay for that.]

Saturday, November 23, 2024

254: Language Transfer with Mihalis Eleftheriou

[We tend to teach by showing but that’s not always what’s most effective; dogs and cats do that too. Sometimes it’s better to explain with words what is helpful for the learner.]

[We’re already translating thoughts into language.]

[Xenophobia that occurs naturally as a brain resonse needs help and solutions more than ostracizing, and learning the foreign language can be super helpful there.]

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Men & Grief

[All grief is one: like touching the ocean at any of the imaginary lines we’ve drawn, it’s all one body of water.]

[When my partner senses that I’m holding back grief and invites me with a simple gesture like a hand on the shoulder, it’s hard to meet them there but I try to anyway, because to say “no worries, everything’s fine” would be to negate their good instincts for how I’m feeling.]

[I appreciate things that make me cry because they give me the chance to shed a few more of the tears repressed during childhood, when I had learned that doing so was dangerous.]

Thursday, October 24, 2024

Erin Kissane leaving the internet

[Pretender technologies may only appear to be the next thing, without eventually changing anything, but they can function as a playspace to try possible futures.]

[If we want better networks, we must concretely understand what happened to us, and then use that knowledge to try new things deliberately, with painstaking attention to the human cost.]

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

How to Stand Up for Yourself

[When someone asks ‘why’ after you respond to their request with ’no, you can say “it’s not what’s best for me right now”, “it’s outside my focus right now”, “I need to make another choice”.]

Sunday, September 8, 2024

How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence

[When you feel the tightening up and defensiveness that comes with someone trying to ‘prove’ or ‘persuade’ their perspective, consider focusing on what question to ask so that you can learn something.]

[Feeling triggered is a prompt to understand what provoked it.]

Friday, August 30, 2024

Peanut butter soya cucumber salad

Ingredients

  • 1 cucumber, sliced
  • 2 tbsp peanut butter
  • 1 splash of soya
  • msg
  • chilli crunch
  • rice wine vinegar
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • sesame seeds
  • sesame oil

Method

  • Put everything in a container, then close and shake well to mix.

Friday, August 16, 2024

Poncianinho’s Vlog 8 “Other Side”

[The sun made me want to practice.]

Monday, August 12, 2024

Capoeira Podcast

[Advice should be like snow: the more gentle it falls, the longer it stays.]

Sunday, August 11, 2024

The road to mastery 1 by Mestre Poncianinho

[Learn to be comfortable with getting motivated to work when you plateau and not give up.]

Sunday, July 21, 2024

Let’s make homemade oat milk! 🥣🥛☕️

Ingredients

  • 1 cup rolled oats
  • 6 cups water
  • 1 pinch salt

Method

  • Blend everything together and strain with a tea filter.

Thursday, July 11, 2024

Many tools make a good toolbox.

[Small talk is a test to see how people respond to meaningless things and determine whether it’s worth bringing up more serious things.]

Friday, July 5, 2024

Pickled Onions

Ingredients

  • red onions, sliced and packed in a jar
  • ½ jar water
  • ½ jar vinegar
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • spices to toast

Method

  • Bring the liquid, sugar, and salt to a boil and pour back into the jar. Top with the spices, shake, and refrigerate overnight.

Saturday, June 15, 2024

If we were compatible, we’d know exactly what the other person meant all the time, right?

[Language is primarily for internal use to construct our own worldviews, rather than a tool for communication with others.]

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

The boundaries between self-love and other-love are much blurrier and more dilectical than we’re taught to think…

[What does it mean to feel disgust at bodies similar to yours?]

[Trying something to decide whether you like it or gives you perspective rather than putting you in a box.]

Saturday, June 8, 2024

I was taught something, so now i know it, right?

[Nothing can be taught, there is only learning.]

[Having read about a topic or participated in a workshop does not mean knowing it, which is painfully obvious in the trades.]

Thursday, June 6, 2024

Let’s talk about keeping your community network going….

[Cross train your community network on manuals by letting each person pick a specific part to master and then teaching it to the group.]

[Keep things interesting by meeting up without a specific plan, deciding something fun together, and getting to it right away from there.]

[Build a network resource together through labour or by chipping in funds.]

Saturday, May 25, 2024

Other People as Crutches

[Perhaps obsession with individualism shames us if we are ’less disciplined’ when ‘alone’, while blinding us to how functional it is to live your best through other people.]

Monday, May 20, 2024

Let’s talk about a rabbit hole with foreign policy….

[Foreign policy supports domestic policy, so changing the former starts with deep systemic change in the latter.]

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Exploits of Play: The Cheating Other

When the masses laugh, the powerful quake.