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- The digital world has almost no friction.
- The physical world is full of it.
- And in certain curated space s - like the West Village, or your AI companion -friction has been turned into something you can pay to remove.
Kyla Scanlon • The Most Valuable Commodity in the World Is Friction
One of the central myths of American romance right now is this notion that you and your partner should be able to tell each other anything and everything
I am begging you not to do this
There are so many things about you that are just for you, for your soul, as well as a whole other category of things that are only for your therapist or priest to... See more
I am begging you not to do this
There are so many things about you that are just for you, for your soul, as well as a whole other category of things that are only for your therapist or priest to... See more
X. It’s what’s happening
"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one - seventh of its bulk above water."
- Sigmund Freud
Floating white moth shadow
📸 Ian Mc Cadie
instagram.comAdvice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
amazon.com
The Human cannot abide the thought of death and can hardly bear being alive.
self-discovery and
Time to reconsider how we look at work. Holley's deep dive into this area highly resonates to that of my own path and questions I pose around what it means to feel fulfilled and authentic in the work that we do. She has come to know work as: "A lifelong devotion, to deliberation and transcendence of myself, my family and community, and society at large. What that contribution looks like shifts over time, and the action or inaction within that contribution can be grand gestures or small simple deeds - that's the beauty of it." She describes her current work resembling a manifesto: To honor self-acceptance as the antidote to the allure of external validation. To cherish and express my uninhibited creative expression and honour my weirdness, whether it makes me money or not. To share the unfolding of my story, the triumphs, the falls, the lifts, the climbs in artful, honest ways that challenge people to not turn away from themselves.
The paradigm of acceleration fails to grasp the deeper human tension between action and contemplation. It’s a false binary, one that Benedict XVI (then Joseph Ratzinger) identified clearly in Introduction to Christianity. He described modernity’s obsession with Machen—do/make—as the belief that only what we can build, manipulate, or produce is... See more
Leadership is an action, not a position.
Michaela Raaby on LinkedIn: home | LONO
A note on autonomy rooting from the mind.
Reminds me of Nicola Gratteri’s words on freedom - Italian prosecutor, who dedicated his life and career to take on Italy's most powerful mafia, the 'Ndrangheta. Being a high-profile target for the group’s kill list, Gratteri lives in constant danger and isn’t able to live a normal public life, so he developed mental freedom to maintain autonomy.
You can read more about his story here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63959241.amp