Journal

135 entries under "talk"

Sunday, April 20, 2025

Surviving Crappy Markets 101

[Market downturns are more the norm than exception, yet bull market gains often make up for them in multiples.]

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Trevor Noah: My Depression Was Linked To ADHD! Why I Left The Daily Show!

[Growing up in abusive households make you sensitive to your environment to the point where I knew by the sound of his footsteps whether or not my stepfather was coming home drunk.]

[You’ll be surprised at how often your ‘screw them’ choice reflects something you perhaps need to be doing more of.]

Friday, April 11, 2025

CONSPIRACY

[Nudging people towards your conclusion while making them think they arrived there themselves will keep them resistant to questioning their basis for belief.]

[Conspiracism is more invested in the issues of specific leaders (bad satan worshippers) than the structure of power itself.]

[The face of Jesus and Mary may be commonly found on toast and fruit in Christian nations, wheras the name of Allah might be found on cantaloupe skins in Indonesia.]

[‘Is it possible that…’ has a very low barrier for proof.]

[One function of the ‘satanic ritual abuse’ conspiracy is to deny that sexual violence is banal and that culture empowers men to do it.]

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Who do you trust (when you don’t trust the news)?

[If manufacturers of cars bear some responsibility for your private vehicle’s safety issues, as airplane manufacturers would if flights put people in danger, perhaps so should social media companies for presenting alternative realities that lead to real world catastrophes.]

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.]