evanovich

@evancm

Nerdy yet sturdy, a gay elder millennial at play,

respect how design and tech intersect, programs and projects I direct each day.

I chase personal grace, laced with insight in every space,

as nature’s hidden rapture captures my artful embrace.

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As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.”— Harrington Emerson

Actualization via Iteration

Direction.

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Art I Like

You actually can contemplate creating a new (cognitive) foundation for the world, something that vast numbers of very different people will actually want to count on. It’s been done before. It doesn’t require anything literally impossible. It’s not wilder than stuff respectable people discuss freely like “building AGI” or “creating a new and better... See more

Change is the Only Constant and Human Connections

How does one prepare for a reorganization of the way we organize as a society? Culture? Nation? Species? How many OTHERs will be lost in the process?

A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.

Joshua Kaplan propublica.org

Change is the Only Constant

Fascinating

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

Mindfulness & Wisdom

We can take control by creating more choice points — moments where we recognize that choice is available to us. This might include choosing whether or not to ask for help, or whether or not to have a difficult conversation. We can further maximize our choices by being intentional about whether our decisions are based on our goals and values. Choice... See more

Actualization via Iteration

Choice is critical to sense of autonomy and contentment. Or at least the illusion of it.

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Art I Like

The day Walt Disney died.

From Letters to the Intense Minds by Imi Lo

This today. As life is pushing me towards a change… something I might have asked for but also maybe only half consciously.

Or I want it to be exactly the way I want it. I wanted EVERYTHING. To give up nothing but to have everything I wanted.

How can I be so utterly enraptured, so intoxicatingly optimistic ab

Actualization via Iteration and Mindfulness & Wisdom

these parents may manage to fulfil all the requirements society sets regarding primary care, such as providing clothing and schooling, yet in these cases, the lack of outside corroboration of what is happening can make the invisible wounds more psychologically damaging. In some homes, there is even the pressure to maintain the illusion of a happy f

Imi Lo • Emotional Sensitivity and Intensity: How to manage intense emotions as a highly sensitive person - learn more about yourself with this life-changing self help book (Teach Yourself)

Mindfulness & Wisdom