something I love about the Microsolidarity Network is the regular pulse of people going out into the world to do “group stuff”, then coming back to share lessons
we’re learning how to become the kind of person who can transform a group from okay to awesome
...thread time
whenever I try to put together some kind of “master resource” it almost always ends up being overwrought and tedious
when I write something like a personal recommendation doc for a friend, it almost always ends up being useful for other people and way easier to share too
interesting consequence of this is that adhd might just mean you have a body with more fragments of the computation in it, distributed across society. you are responsible for their integration. suggests the answer would involve an idiosyncratic path
- notice what qualities, behaviors etc. u admire about them
- notice that u desire to have these qualities in ur life, that they are lacking and u yearn for them.
- accept ur crush is at least partially projection of that desire onto them, a clue from ur subconscious about who u long to become
- find... See more
really appreciate this frame tbh
the midwit meme is super powerful for shedding light on overthink-y failure modes, but it's easy to caste the guy in the middle as being inferior, to make him an object of ridicule
But the most crucial part of committing is *not needing other people to validate your schtick*. When you release others of the expectation that you need them to approve of you, when you say a little "fuck you, I'm having a good time" NOTHING you do will be cringe
i usually describe this to people as "make your work people-shaped", which is the cognitively ergnomic way of talking about "cognitive ergnomics" (which is, tragically, not cognitively ergonomic)