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by nico kokonas ¡ updated 3mo ago
wisdom đ
- Some Zen Buddhists hold that the entirety of human suffering can be boiled down to this effort to resist paying full attention to the way things are going, because we wish they were going differently (âThis shouldnât be happening!â), or because we wish we felt more in control of the process. There is a very down-to-earth kind of liberation in grasp... See more
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
nico kokonas added 3mo ago
- It begins to feel as though youâre failing at life, in some indistinct way, if youâre not treating your time off as an investment in your future. Sometimes this pressure takes the form of the explicit argument that you ought to think of your leisure hours as an opportunity to become a better worker (âRelax! Youâll Be More Productive,â reads the hea... See more
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
nico kokonas added 3mo ago
- Many of us yearn for a way to be fully online without all of the mindlessness, passivity and addiction that often entraps us. Some of us oscillate between fully online and fully offline in a sort of mad dance to establish what feels right. Others have lost hope that itâs possible to engage in a way that feels true and alive, and have resigned to us... See more
from Internet as Practice by Dan Hunt
nico kokonas added 3mo ago
- Saying yes frequently is an additive strategy. Saying no is a subtractive strategy. Keep saying no to a lot of things - the negative and unimportant ones - and once in awhile, you will be left with an idea which is so compelling that it would be a screaming no-brainer 'yes'.
from Ask HN: How do you deal with information and internet addiction? | Hacker News
nico kokonas added 3mo ago
- But the informational value of the web has been nearly destroyed. Fake News isnât even the biggest problem. Itâs the digital ecosystemâs insistence on stifling curiosity by prioritizing ANSWERS over questions.
Most impactfully, the web has been systematically re-engineered to hinder discovery in order to drive people as quickly as possible to comme... See morefrom Questions and Cancers by Joe Maceda
nico kokonas added 3mo ago
- So much of social media is, by design, condensed information â itâs made to be bite-size. So the internet feels faster paced. Itâs been really soothing to go to a space where Iâm still meeting my desire to connect with people and talk with people, but in a digital realm thatâs slower, and that is allowing for a bit more vulnerability, a bit more co... See more
from Is Somewhere Good the Future of Social Media? by Katja VujiÄ
nico kokonas added 3mo ago
- For me, my anxiety and emotional state improved when I realized I got a lot of joy and contentment from the _process_ of learning new things, and trying to gauge my improvement always meant comparing myself to others.
from Ask HN: Does learning self-improvement techniques help? | Hacker News by automatom
nico kokonas added 3mo ago
The opposite of agency is learned helplessness. If people believe that we canât do very much to stop the worldâs problems, itâs unsurprising that theyâd be terrified to bring children into the world. But this seems like a mental trap that we can, and should, teach people to resist falling into. As Clare Coffey writes in âFailure to Cop
... See morefrom Cultivating Agency by Nadia Asparouhova
nico kokonas added 3mo ago
If you believe that the world is shaped by your and othersâ actions, then the climate crisis or other global catastrophic risk donât look quite so scary: theyâre an opportunity to do something meaningful.
from Cultivating Agency by Nadia Asparouhova
nico kokonas added 3mo ago