Sublime June 2025 Zettels
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Sublime June 2025 Zettels
[Nora Bateson has] found that the questions, “Who can I be when I am with you, and Who can you be when you are with me?” invite a whole new world of story into the way we can be together. In contrast, “Who am I? Who are you?” Or “How do I become a better person?” reconfirm the isolation of the individual, thus obscuring the ecology of the many ways... See more
Sublime June 2025 Zettels
[Yalom:] He also sees death anxiety when we can’t accept our shortcomings in any arena, when we can’t complete things, and when we can’t get started. Any move to drag our feet and prevent time from passing is a way to protect ourselves from the truth about our very brief lifespan.
Yalom on Approaching Death Marie Snyder 5.23.2025
Yalom on Approaching Death Marie Snyder 5.23.2025
Sublime June 2025 Zettels
procrastination
Their definition of a protocol is “an engineered argument.” The protocol itself exists, and it is having some effect on and in the world. A lot of these effects cause what they call “tensions”: A tension is a tradeoff plus a conflict. ... This kind of frame is difficult and frustrating because it means that much of what emerges can’t be controlled ... See more
Sublime June 2025 Zettels
Network Leadership Principle: Hold dynamic tensions.
Dynamic tensions: "dynamic because they are always in flux, tensions to signify a relationship between ideas or qualities with seemingly conflicting demands or implications.” 62-71. David Erlichman Impact Networks 2021
of course AI applied to supply chains where the economic incentive is still that you're allowed to externalize the cost. If anyone else externalizes some of their costs and you don't, they beat you economically. Because there's no law forcing you to actually pay the real cost of the thing. We had, we have a really brilliant earth scientist on the t... See more
Sublime June 2025 Zettels
externalities pfas
Shinzen Young: “You can dramatically extend life—not by multiplying the number of your years, but by expanding the fullness of your moments.”
What I wish someone had told me about starting a meditation practice make it not terrible? Sasha Chapin 1.9.2024
What I wish someone had told me about starting a meditation practice make it not terrible? Sasha Chapin 1.9.2024
Sublime June 2025 Zettels
depth over length
A lot of this comes down to another Hebrew innovation, the Midrash (from the Hebrew root d-r-sh, "to seek" or "to inquire"). It’s basically a process of discussion and meaning-making that gets added, layer upon layer to the original “texts.”
This created an interpretive culture where:
Gap-filling was encouraged: Midrash tackled apparent contradiction... See more
This created an interpretive culture where:
Gap-filling was encouraged: Midrash tackled apparent contradiction... See more
Sublime June 2025 Zettels
contrast to fundamentalist binary approach