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Don’t hold on. — That is all.
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When we are deprived of green, of plants, of trees, most of us (though evidently not all of us) succumb to a demoralization of spirit which we usually blame on some psychological or neurochemical malady, until one day we find ourselves in a garden or park or countryside and feel the oppression vanish as if by magic.
— Robert Harrison: Gardens: An
... See moreAs awful as these events have been, I am no longer struck by their horror. They all seem to be the near-inevitable, direct effects of how we are running our political economies. I am more struck by our slow ability to react.
Spencer R. Scott • End the Horror, Let the Crisis Change You
Birth is one of a growing chorus of philosophers, social scientists, authors and artists who, for various reasons, are arguing that we need to urgently reassess our relationship with the clock. The clock, they say, does not measure time; it produces it. “Coordinated time is a mathematical construct, not the measure of a specific phenomenon,” Birth
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See the world as if you were on vacation. Look at the world with a sense of excitement and wonder, appreciate the local customs and the unique landscape around you. Explore and discover your world, even if it's just your broom closet.
A man who lies to himself is often the first to take offense.
— Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
— Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Dylano | Essayful • Tweet
die noch leeren Zwischenräume zwischen Spinat und Spinat, die noch keine Frühkultur tragen – weder frühen Salat noch frühen Rettich, noch Möhren –, die erst zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt benötigt werden, machen wir eine bodendecken- de Voraussaat. Wir haben zu diesem Zeitpunkt, wenn Spinat und frühe Kulturen ausgebracht werden, die Möglichkeit, hier
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Other social media platforms followed, leveraging Skinner’s three laws to maximize button-pecking. They offered immediate reinforcement in the form of instant responses, conditioned reinforcement in the form of “likes” and “followers”, and unpredictable reinforcement that varied with each post and each refresh of the page. These features turned
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