values

We craft virtual machines to interact with our hyper landscape. Through meditating on what our story is and what we care about, we become fluent in it. We can get out of our head and act from our values. It’s a feedback loop. By changing your actions, you encounter new things that refine your virtual engine.

And most importantly: your virtues are co

It’s paradox all the way down (or, “nested opponent processes”).

• Consider the basic Yin/Yang duality.

• Now imagine 2 overlapping axes in a plus sign:

  • SEEING: literal<>abstract vision; up-down.

  • DOING: literal<>abstract action; right-left.

• It doesn’t stop here. Consider the pairings. There’s:

  • BEING (literal vision & literal action), and;

  • KNOW

Samskara — an “undigested emotion” that affects us through life. This reminds me Grof’s COEX’s. There might be moments of shame, or embarrassment, or cowardice. Why did that happen? What’s the source of that? By following down our negative virtues, you can get to the root, and then invert it into a positive virtue that address the core tension.

New experiment; my iOS lock screen are “virtue cards.” Every time I open my phone, it shows me a virtue (currently 14 loaded in, they’re like mini-poems with key values I wan tot remember), and I can even tap to cycle through them. I made these really quickly in Canva.

Maybe virtues shouldn’t come from an abstract ideal of yourself. Maybe they come from a fine-tuned perception of your own mind, and the structural ability to model your character. There’s a diligence required to observe your inner working, an analysis required to cluster patterns, and a creativity required to coin memorable frames that shape the gr

I’ve always thought of a virtue as compressed earned wisdom baked into a word that I repeat. I was thinking in large aspirational terms before (kairos, synthesis, patience, etc.) but now I’m thinking about it through “negative” virtues. Trying to take note of all the tiny moments throughout the day where I don’t live up to my fullest self (little s

My goal for Greek Orthodox Holy Week is to rapidly record my perceptions, make sense of them, build awareness of my negative virtues, and then shape postive virtues to live through over the next year.

Value brainstorm:

• patience: do slow, manual work, site with things, wonder, let things take their own course, don’t rush, let people have the time they need …

• patterns: fractals, things at multiple scales, put things into visual to see the true nature of reality, abstractions are okay …

• synthesis: fuse opposites, don’t take sides, find peace, let thi