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125 entries under "talk"

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.

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Let’s talk about how to change the world (Part 2)….

[Older people who consider themselves unable to contribute due to physical impairments have decades of life experience and can often offer advice to simplify or streamline the more intense work.]

[Having events where people can help can signal being more active than having meetings where people talk, and will attract doers.]

Monday, May 13, 2024

Let’s talk about how to change the world….

[Bring independent means having a network, and having a choice about how things get done rather than doing everything yourself.]

Thursday, May 9, 2024

John Cleese vs Extremism

[Extremism lets you pretend that all badness is in your enemies while all goodness is in you.]

Monday, May 6, 2024

On Storytelling

[Find shared language by replacing ’true statements’ with words that convey the emotional experience around your solution.]

[Finding ways to solve multiple issues simultaneously helps tell a stronger story than a list of bug fixes or closed issues: try to holistically answer ‘what actually happened?’]

Sunday, May 5, 2024

What is Success?

[Community is about helping each other, rather than having similar interests or agreements or approaches.]

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Don’t Fuck It Up!

[Randomize your MAC address often.]

[Tor is for anonymity, not encryption: you need to configure it to avoid sending unencrypted data.]