Jeremy P
@jman
Jeremy P
If you've been holding back from sharing your journey, insights, or creations, consider this a gentle invitation. Create for past you—celebrate your growth. Create for future you—the connections you’ll make, the person you’ll become. Create even for those silent lurkers who are quietly growing, learning, and becoming because you decided to hit publ... See more
Camille Mendoza • The Gentle Art of Being Seen: Reframing Personal Branding
What we are allowed to grieve, we are allowed to love.
We Were Never Meant to Grieve Alone
Nietzsche burned early drafts. Michelangelo destroyed sketches. Leonardo left thousands of pages unfinished. The act of deletion is not a failure of recordkeeping. It is a reassertion of agency.
In design, we speak of subtraction as refinement. A sculptor chips away everything that is not the figure. A musician cuts a line that clutters the melody. ... See more
In design, we speak of subtraction as refinement. A sculptor chips away everything that is not the figure. A musician cuts a line that clutters the melody. ... See more
Joan Westenberg • I Deleted My Second Brain
aka what we refer to as ‘natural selection’, whereby reality is constantly deleting, revising, evloving, at the foaming edge of becomingness; no Hero’s journey of striving to Be The Best Self, just a love-driven exploration of what can be possible, to know ourself in every way, distilled by the pain and joy of existing; n’er static, (by definition it cannot be);
Merlin Donald, in his theory of cognitive evolution, argues that human intelligence emerged not from static memory storage but from external symbolic representation : tools like language, gesture, and writing that allowed us to rehearse, share, and restructure thought. Culture became a collective memory system - not to archive knowledge, but to kee... See more
Joan Westenberg • I Deleted My Second Brain
Contrary to popular belief, imagination means seeing things as they are , not as we want them to be. This is because imagination is actually a way of seeing. To invoke imagination is to draw on the entirety of who we are. It is to open all the doors of our perception and all our sense experience. And it requires us to respond to life with the fulln... See more
My loyalty is to Imagination
Looking back on the bleak period when depression swept away the herons from the sky of his mind and voided the world of wonder, he reflects:
There are two paths to magic: Imagination and paying attention. Imagination is the fiction we love, the truths built of falsehoods, glowing dust on the water’s surface. Paying attention is about intentional not... See more
Maria Popova • The Great Blue Heron, Signs vs. Omens, and Our Search for Meaning
Reflecting on the difficulty of interpreting his own life and on the myriad symbologies of the great blue heron — among them an ancient myth in which the bird dusts the surface of the water with golden starlight to attract bluegill — Anderson writes:
The heron is exactly what the heron is to you in the moment you choose to give it meaning. It will b... See more
Maria Popova • The Great Blue Heron, Signs vs. Omens, and Our Search for Meaning
On the life mirror and Existential thinkings
Life is the mirror life needs to understand ourself
The four pillars of gnosis- science, art, religion, philosophy- are rarely, if ever, approached with a curiosity towards the non-human lens. What is science in the society of crows? The religion of a mo
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