Chaweon Koo
@chaweonkoo
Chaweon Koo
trauma is not the event, but the response to the event.
People can believe they have mentally or verbally processed an event, but the nervous system doesn’t respond to words.
Talk therapy doesn’t touch trauma at a deep level.
It’s like the nervous system needs proof - on a physiological level - that the body is allowed to relax and unguard.
People can believe they have mentally or verbally processed an event, but the nervous system doesn’t respond to words.
Talk therapy doesn’t touch trauma at a deep level.
It’s like the nervous system needs proof - on a physiological level - that the body is allowed to relax and unguard.
Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener
once the AI has written something, it cannot go back, so it needs to justify (or explain or lie about) that statement in the future
Ethan Mollick • Thinking Like an AI
“Your first task is to find what feels effortless to you.
Your second task is to put maximum effort into it.”
Your second task is to put maximum effort into it.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: The simple path to wealth, how time works, and things that hold talented people back
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you,” remarked Maya Angelou
How to Fall Back in Love With Your Newsletter
This can be a frustratingly slow process.
Healing truly takes its own time - there is no rushing it, only assisting in it.
In practice, during a session this looks similar to what Somatic Experiencing would describe as “titration and pendulation” - moving back and forth between “control” and “letting go.”
Letting go 0.25% at a time, then noticing the ... See more
Healing truly takes its own time - there is no rushing it, only assisting in it.
In practice, during a session this looks similar to what Somatic Experiencing would describe as “titration and pendulation” - moving back and forth between “control” and “letting go.”
Letting go 0.25% at a time, then noticing the ... See more
Noah Cebuliak • What I Learned Working With 700+ KAT Clients — Roadopener
rigidity to medical model (quick, clean fixes) can be detrimental in true healing
We must train our technologists in poetry.
We must give our physicists surfboards.
We must send our bureaucrats into the waves.
We must create rituals of awe, not just rules of order.
Everybody must get stoned.
Not in passive withdrawal, but in active re-enchantment. Not in apathy, but in aesthetic fury. We
must remember what we are
We must give our physicists surfboards.
We must send our bureaucrats into the waves.
We must create rituals of awe, not just rules of order.
Everybody must get stoned.
Not in passive withdrawal, but in active re-enchantment. Not in apathy, but in aesthetic fury. We
must remember what we are
Homegrown Humans
In recent years we’ve gotten tied up in this infantile vision of “the metaverse” where we port over our physical embodiments onto screens. It’s a vision based on a 20th century imagination of what computers would do.
What’s actually happening is even more incredible: the internet is a mesa verse. It’s concerned with what’s within ( mesa = ~within).... See more
What’s actually happening is even more incredible: the internet is a mesa verse. It’s concerned with what’s within ( mesa = ~within).... See more
Yancey Strickler • The Dark Forest and the Post-Individual
“Boy, nothing real can be threatened”
–Beyonce
If you’re constantly fleeing friction, you’re dying.
There’s no hope for a fruitful existence if you refuse to face the inevitable uncertainties of life. The more we shield ourselves from uncertainty, the more vulnerable we become. Each safeguard deepens the very void we seek to escape.
There’s no hope for a fruitful existence if you refuse to face the inevitable uncertainties of life. The more we shield ourselves from uncertainty, the more vulnerable we become. Each safeguard deepens the very void we seek to escape.