Kasturi Kiri
@shoesatthe_door
Kasturi Kiri
For five years, I’ve ceased to experience with shame what can be experienced with pleasure and triumph (sexuality, jealousy, class differences). Shame spreads over everything, prevents any further progress.
Celine Nguyen • you are good enough as you are
Actively counterbalance shame with pleasure, pride and joy.
Shame is unnecessary and contagious.
Card quote from Annie Ernaux’s Getting Lost
Links are the “checkpoints” of your thinking process.
Remember that moment when you had a trail of thoughts and someone asked you a question? That train is good as gone, right?
Links allow you to store this “train” and continue it indefinitely later.
Also, the big benefit of these links is that your working memory becomes free to focus on developing... See more
Remember that moment when you had a trail of thoughts and someone asked you a question? That train is good as gone, right?
Links allow you to store this “train” and continue it indefinitely later.
Also, the big benefit of these links is that your working memory becomes free to focus on developing... See more
leananki.com • Zettelkasten Method: How to Take Smart Notes
archival as lifestyle and organisation
Creating trains of thought / links allow you to focus on developing the thought trail
The painting is called Reading at a Table, and it is about exactly that: a woman sitting alone at a table, reading a book by lamplight. Her body seems to morph with the chair, and the book is positioned in a way that it seems to flow into her body, becoming part of her. She has the flowy, strange style of Picasso’s characters, but the strangeness... See more
Michael Rance • 'You Can Live the Wrong Life'
A good life might look awkward
Instead of 'telescoping', how about 'kaleidoscope-ing' here, i.e. "To move in shifting (and often attractive or colourful) patterns." - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kaleidoscope
Adding shapes, spotting connections, meanings shifting as patterning and re-patterning continues through shapes being organised and connected in different ways. Like that... See more
Adding shapes, spotting connections, meanings shifting as patterning and re-patterning continues through shapes being organised and connected in different ways. Like that... See more
Kaleidoscoping vs telescoping | Are.na
Researchers & archivists build up a network of every-shifting ideas and meanings.
This process of exploring shifting patterns feels like looking through a kaleidoscope.
This stems from the structure of the web — it’s a tangle of links, a jumble of interconnected ideas. It fractalizes our attention, nudging us to leave fragments of our mind trapped in open tabs like a thousand tiny horcruxes — open loops feeding off our attention until they wither away, replaced by our latest distraction.
There’s a bottleneck here:
... See morethesolarmonk.com • A Spacebar for the Web
How do you create context from a tangle of disparate ideas?
The absence of shame makes trying —to do something new, change how you usually act in a difficult moment, cultivate a practice or ongoing habit that has so far eluded you—less terrifying.
Because shame often comes from fearing failure or actually failing, and then feeling as if the failure has something important to say.
Because shame often comes from fearing failure or actually failing, and then feeling as if the failure has something important to say.
Celine Nguyen • you are good enough as you are
Failure does not have something important to say
You're going to get depressed because your sense of self-competence is overly reliant on FAST RESULTS.