Thomas
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Thomas
Exploring the weaving of Narrative Change & Systems Change
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Bits of information provide neither meaning nor orientation. They do not congeal into a narrative. They are purely additive. From a certain point onward, they no longer inform — they deform. They can even darken the world. This puts them in opposition to truth. Truth illuminates the world, while information lives off the attraction of surprise,... See more
NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
Wandering is thus intrinsic to the operation of equanimity. One opens toward being affected by things as yet unexperienced or unknown. The world becomes an expansive horizon of possibilities.
Michael Uebel • Equanimity is not stillness – it is a mobility of the mind | Psyche Ideas
Social media intensify this kind of communication without community. You cannot forge a public sphere out of influencers and followers. Digital communities have the form of commodities; ultimately, they are commodities.
NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
Measuring wealth from zero is a different way to think about it than normal. What makes you wealthy, in the way the word is typically used, isn’t what you have, but what you have compared to the people near you in time, space, and culture.
We Are All Surrounded by Immense Wealth
Along with other types of pollution, cognitive pollution is becoming an increasingly acute problem.
If we endlessly scroll through social media, watch reels, and pollute our consciousness with other junk, then the ideas we produce will also be junk. Garbadge in, garbadge out.
Yet, if we take a responsible approach to what we let into our inner... See more
If we endlessly scroll through social media, watch reels, and pollute our consciousness with other junk, then the ideas we produce will also be junk. Garbadge in, garbadge out.
Yet, if we take a responsible approach to what we let into our inner... See more
Gleb Shu • Would you like to feel more planetary?
Somebody asked me the other day, how I stop myself from going down rabbit holes and stay focused during my spark writing time?
And simple answer is, I don't.
Here's the thing. What if chasing rabbit holes & getting distracted is a normal part of our human... See more
️ Ev Chapman | Creative Entrepreneurx.comBioregioning offers an alternative organising principle that could redefine the way we understand material flows, political governance and civil society. Simply defined, it is a form of activity that operates within the natural boundaries of a bioregion – often defined by a watershed or geological area – and that seeks to sustain, or indeed revive,... See more
Islands of Coherence - Future Observatory Journal
"I frequently worry that being productive is the surest way to lull ourselves into a trance of passivity and busyness the greatest distraction from living, as we coast through our lives day after day, showing up for our obligations but being absent from our selves, mistaking the doing for the being." — Maria Popova