I like this from Doc Searls. “See, stories themselves are a problem, both in human nature (we love and live stories) and in journalism, which...
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It seems to me there are no meaningful or practical politics remaining in the exhausted left versus right axis. What appears much more fertile is...
Nail hit squarely on the head. No wonder she won. “Because life has changed. Instead of working for a nice life, we're working to line...
So I went and tried Terry Godier’s new RSS reader Current. The only thing I liked about it was it’s lack of an unread count,...
Whatever practice one may be engaged in, I would place one requirement above all others — above habit, endurance, persistence, ritual, technique, and study —...
I remember getting caught in New York during the 1993 Storm of the Century. The heating in the apartment I was staying in conked out...
“We go on—not upward, not forward, but just on…” — Anon
Out in the wilderness today…
Everything we can know about consciousness is contained within the experience of consciousness itself.
In terms of one’s immediate phenomenological experience in this moment, there is no difference between the memory of an actual experience you once had and...
What stories and narratives of self will you be holding onto as you’re dying? Which begs the rather more urgent question, what stories are you...
“When you try to cover the living with explanations, there is death to the living, and that is what most of us desire – we...
Back from India there is so much to say that I am struck mute with the task of doing it justice.
Watching Industry Season 4. Like Succession, another great show about awful people.
“For a time, words may encourage and inspire, but if you cling too long to a teaching, any teaching, it will blind you to your...
You can be but not know or know but not be. Not both.
Life is life. Stories are stories. The degree to which we confuse and conflate the two is a measure of our contentedness or lack of...
Watched There Will Be Blood again on the plane 🎬 One of my favourite Paul Thomas Anderson films.
The specific qualities of any phenomena pale beside the fact that anything is happening at all.
Maturity, at any age, is nothing more than realising that both you and life are not what you thought they were and then accepting them...
