David Pennington
@dtpennington
I write stuff. I’d like to write more stuff. Currently: reclaiming my brain.
David Pennington
dtpennington.com
alchemy is about facilitating change, growth, evolution, or transformation in another. alchemy is what we do when we offer services or products of any kind.
Kening Zhu • your art, ecosystem, and alchemy — kening zhu
The Importance of Inconvenience
youtube.comThe “convenience” that tech invites replaced what people/ social connections used to do. You can play a video game with someone online on the other side of the world - but now you miss the casual whateverness of your co-player sitting next to you on the couch. Or, hell, the person sitting on the other side of the Scrabble/ Chess board
The pleasure of this depraved human state lies, I think, in the contradiction: Resting in the literal physical sense, persisting in the toxic spiritual one. It’s a state that suggests a low tolerance for understimulation, a common modern condition.
Haley Nahman • #208: What is rotting, if not rest?
The more I heal, the less ambitious I become.
The more I heal, the less ambitious I become.
What we want in 2025
Yancey Strickler • What we want in 2025
Capitalism tells us this. Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey takes a deep dive into this link exploring how capitalism and white supremacy are at the heart of our inability to rest. These learnings have been crucial to my rest practices and are now weaved into my Yoga classes and wellbeing offerings because of it.
Jodie Melissa Rogers • Why we feel guilty & uncomfortable when resting
Mental Health and Idleism
One of the take-home lessons of Buddhist philosophy is that feelings just are. If we accepted their arising and subsiding as part of life, rather than reacting to them as if they were deeply meaningful, we’d often be better off. Learning to do that is a big part of what mindfulness meditation is about.
Why Buddhism is True | https://highlights.melanie-richards.com
Brain monitoring may be the future of work – how it’s used could improve employee performance or worsen discrimination
Paul Brandt-Rauftheconversation.com