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Time has two faces. The first face of time is “objective time”: the time of watches, calendars, and train timetables. The second, la durée (“duration”), is “lived time,” the time of our inner subjective experience. This is time felt, lived, and acted.

– Henri Bergson

Paternal authority can promise relief from complexity. Tech culture’s desire to eliminate friction maps neatly onto feudal logic, and governance can become similar to a software problem. If the current system is buggy, roll back to an earlier version. Even if it involves going all the way back to the Middle Ages. Inheritance operates quietly

Special Little Lords by Leena van Deventer
https://hetconned.substack.com/p/special-little-lords#footnote-anchor-3-186624309

Rank is still the evolutionarily Neanderthal mode by which our social and religious cultures are organised, and it systematically undermines every enlightened impulse we have.

- Rev. angle Kyodo williams

Radical Dharma by Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens, and Jasmine Syedullah

Feelings are mental experiences of body states. They signify physiological need (for example, hunger), tissue injury (for example, pain), optimal function (for example, well-being), threats to the organism (for example, fear or anger) or specific social interactions (for example, compassion, gratitude or love). Feelings constitute a crucial

Antonio Damasio & Gil B. Carvalho, The nature of feelings: evolutionary and neurobiological origins (2013) https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn3403

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi

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When Shohei Ohtani was a high school freshman, he created a detailed "dream sheet" with one central goal: to be the #1 draft pick for 8 NPB (Nippon Professional Baseball) teams. It was a 64-cell roadmap based on a framework called the Harada Method. Here's exactly what Shohei did... See more

Arpan Gupta

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The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.

The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin

Also: “It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done.”

Feelings perform the equivalent of a musical score that accompanies our thoughts and actions.

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Feelings are commingled with the things and events we feel thanks to the exceptional and intimate cross talk between body structures and nervous system.

Antonio Damasio, Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious

Yancey Strickler’s Nine Creative Meditations

To me or to the mean - Focus on what makes your work strange or unique rather than trying to fit in with what everyone else is doing.

You are your audience - Create work that satisfies your own desires and interests rather than trying to please an imagined mass audience.
Small is more rewarding than big -