Stuart Evans
@stuartevans
piano technician • collaborative pianist
Stuart Evans
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The willingness to do hard things opens great windows of opportunity. – One of the most important abilities you can develop in life is the willingness to accept and grow through times of difficulty and discomfort.
Marc Chernoff • 19 Great Truths My Grandmother Told Me on Her 90th Birthday
Christianity Beyond Itself w/Matthew Segall
youtube.comLoose Vibecamp thoughts:
Headline is simply that all of this is real. Your mutuals are your friends, the people you follow but don't know you yet would like you, the community you've cultivated here deserves the trust and respect and admiration you've placed in it.
Adam Kranzx.comomg @jessicavellela's explanations of what's happening in my body, and my own tactile sensing, have finally converged!
a year ago I was in so much metabolic chaos that I could only tell "general improvement"
but this week it's "the left lobe of my liver is inflamed, and (contd)
Elena Lakex.comA significant effect of the meaning crisis is our increasing polarisation into ideological tribes. The old simplicities of left vs right are gone. Instead, culture is now a battleground for what Peter Limberg has called the ‘Memetic Tribes’. Warring factions, each with a competing value system, morality or religious certainty to shout into the din.
Alexander Beiner • Lost Ways of Knowing
Henri Bergson — Why we live in the past
ralphammer.com
I think the best way to understand what an “idea” really is as a node in a network of other ideas, and large language models like GPT-3 are the best maps we currently have of that network. In general, having a map makes you much better at navigating terrain.
Every • Writing with Machines
our intuition is certainly backwards when it comes to meaningful work. We assume that we need to find the work that's meaningful to us, then do more of that. When in reality, it's the work we do more of that becomes more meaningful.