Sindhu Shivaprasad
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content designer and strategist by profession. writing about agentic ways of living on readkindredspirits.com. digital gardening at sindhu.live
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The plight of all preoccupied people is wretched, but most wretched is the plight of those who labor under preoccupations that are not even their own, whose sleep schedule is regulated by somebody else's, who walk at somebody else's pace, and who are under instructions in that freest of all activities-loving and hating. If these people want to know... See more
Seneca • Seneca On The Shortness Of Life : Seneca : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The time of actual enjoyment is short and fleeting, and made far shorter by their own fault; for they desert one pleasure for another and cannot persist steadily in any one desire ... They lose the day in looking forward to the night, the night in fear of the dawn.
Seneca • Seneca On The Shortness Of Life : Seneca : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
the great benefit of using the conflict resolution diagram: finding win-win solutions.
Conflict Resolution Diagram
Knowledge responds to the gravitational pull of questions: new questions, and new questions about old questions.
Sindhu Shivaprasad • Questions Are Desire Paths of Curiosity
The greatest waste of life lies in postponement: it robs us of each day in turn, and snatches away the present by promising the future. The greatest impediment to living is expectancy, which relies on tomorrow and wastes today.
Seneca • Seneca On The Shortness Of Life : Seneca : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Quantum mechanics tells us that within materialism – the idea that nothing exists except matter and its movements – there are uncertainties that do not derive from our ignorance but are fundamental to matter and the laws that govern it. In this view, uncertainty is an uneradicable feature of our physical world.
Psyche • Uncertainty Isn’t a Human Flaw, It’s a Feature of the World
People trifle with the most precious commodity of all; and it escapes their notice because it's an immaterial thing that doesn't appear to the eyes, and for that reason it's valued very cheaply-or rather, it has practically no value at all.
Seneca • Seneca On The Shortness Of Life : Seneca : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Life and
The best time to use this tool is when you run into a conflict that seems impossible to resolve by accepting the proposal of either side. This can be a conflict with others but also internal. It can be professional or personal.