Damn
Stuff I either 1) felt, like physically shaken by or 2) couldn’t imagine another human being saw in the same way (read: someone read my mind)
Damn
✨every app that adds AI looks like this✨
open.substack.com
Read my fucking mind with this one
In the late 1990s, Julia Hill climbed a 200-foot, approximately 1000-year-old Californian redwood tree & didn’t come down for another 738 days. She ultimately reached an agreement with Pacific Lumber Company to spare the tree and a 200-foot buffer zone surrounding the tree.
“Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing”
Instead of productivity, we focus on intentionality. It's not about how much you do, but about knowing why you're doing what you're doing, seeing dreams come to life, and having fun while you're doing it. Here are Intend's four principles for getting into flow and staying in touch with what matters to you:
choosing & doing, over organizing
aliven
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walzr.com
Around 2014, a team of Stanford scientists hired by Google to research green energy technologies came to a startling conclusion. “Even if every renewable energy technology advanced as quickly as imagined and they were all applied globally,” they wrote, “atmospheric CO2 levels wouldn’t just remain above 350 ppm; they would continue to rise exponenti... See more
How to Stop Worrying and Love the Bulldozer
Max Wilbert, How to Stop Worrying and Love the Bulldozer
I need to write to know what I'm thinking. Once I've learned what I'm thinking, I need to write to organize my thoughts. Once I've organized my thoughts, I need to edit my writing to make my thoughts better. I can't think without writing, but I also can't really feel . When I put my nebulous, complicated, demanding emotions onto the page, I'm able ... See more
on obsession
Ava Huang
we have the opportunity now, as a species fully in touch with each other [think social media] to unlearn and relearn our own patterns of thinking and storytelling in a way that allows us to be actually in communion with our environment as opposed to a dominating, colonialist separation from the environment. I think in our education in particular, w... See more
The Making of a Love Letter | Sierra Club
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
In 1999, California legislature issued a one million-dollar emergency grant to UC Davis’s MIND Institute to investigate the 273 percent rise in autism in the state from 1987 to 1999. The resulting 70-page report stated that the rise was not due to “loosening in criteria’’ or “misclassification,” and that most autistic children “did not have a famil... See more