totholz5d
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totholz5d
The path to greater pleasure lies not in increased stimulation*, but in enhancing one's sensitivity.
Increase in sensitivity can be achieve by practicing the arts of attention.
*over-stimulation tend to lead to numbing
I’m not even saying that the position I’m suggesting here—that there is a play principle at the basis of all physical reality—is necessarily true. I would just insist that such a perspective is at least as plausible as the weirdly inconsistent speculations that currently pass for orthodoxy, in which a mindless, robotic universe suddenly produces... See more
The Baffler • What’s the Point if We Can’t Have Fun?
Of course, the stories you tell yourself are useless if you don’t take action. “No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess,” the psychologist William James wrote, no matter how good one’s stories may be, “if one [does not] act, one’s life may remain entirely unaffected for the better.” One’s life, as James puts it, “is an aggregate of
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Style Is Consistent Constraint
Suzanne Treister
suzannetreister.netFile over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.