self renewal
explorations in how individuals and institutions can adapt, evolve, and renew their sense of vitality when they become stagnant.
self renewal
“Nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence.”
-Octavia Butler
“To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities.”
— Bruce Lee
Jordan Bates on Substack
By the time the map is available it is useless, life has changed its tracks. Life has started playing a new game. You cannot cope with life with maps because it is not measurable, and you cannot cope with life by consulting guidebooks because guidebooks are possible only if things are stagnant. Life is not stagnant—it is a dynamism, it is a
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If you think you have to act a certain way in order to be loved, you’re not actually being loved
You’re being loved for someone you’re pretending to be, and that’s not being loved.
You’re being loved for someone you’re pretending to be, and that’s not being loved.
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"The metacrisis" is attractive because it suggests you can save the world by thinking about it extremely abstractly.