Ντίλαν (Dylan)
@DylanisnotGreek
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• London based • • Designer • Artist • Consumer of cool things
Joined May 2021
The discrete proves always transient, yet can spawn that which carries forward its spirit without limit.
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Boardgames & card games reveal patterns in how I learn/fail to learn rules, sequences & strategies I'm unsure how exactly but the speed of gameplay is a big factor It is clear that those I play with have the generosity & grace to repeatedly help me make good decisions
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"Strong Philosophies become buildings"... Oof this sent my mind whizzing
@matdryhurst Aesthetics and thought are the same thing You can tell a philosophy is strong when it starts to change the shape of things Weak philosophies are just tracts. Strong ones become buildings.
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Schools try to instil Routines into children where they ought to try cultivate Rituals. replace Routines used for obedience, predictability and homogeneity, and replace them with Rituals for centering, relating, listening, collaborating
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it’s simple. i just need to lock in, be more attractive, eat healthier, cook more, remember to respond, heal from trauma, read more, become smarter and funnier, have the right relationship to sex, my gender and my body and fundamentally and wholly change who i am as a person
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One thing I've worked on 'Sensing' better Seeing colour, shapes, patterns, lighting, beauty Listening to music better: to bass lines, rhythms, harmonies Tasting more things, and focusing on textures, sounds & colours while cooking These have combined to a 'Perception' lvl up
A beautiful way to experience reality is to view every moment of experience the way an art lover views a piece of art. The key for this is not to look for things that are beautiful, but instead look for what is beautiful about things. We are not just looking out for sunsets and
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"Would I use this in Life?" says a teenage student 'You might' a teacher replies [what I wanna say: you need to practice to read, remember and filter info. And then create and understand connections & relationships between relevant concepts. These are essential skills in life]
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NORMALIZE not bringing up a your relatable story when someone is telling you something about themselves… just listen.
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Huh an okay-ish example of Warm Data at play
The Doorman Fallacy 'You have a five-star hotel and it has a doorman, welcoming incoming guests. McKinsey or Accenture will come in and say, “Your doorman currently costs you X thousand dollars a year. We have defined his or her function as opening the door. We’ll replace said
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There's no such thing as self-regulation. It's all co-regulation
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The danger of: 'what's normal = good' for parents when it comes to Parents & Adult children: (based off anecdotes) there's a pattern of children having to be the mature party to bring up negative, detrimental patterns/ observations around ways of communicating/parenting
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A good mini case-study on organising people and offering pleasant rejections thanks @cookiecarver
anyone wanna join a poetry gc? you have to post a poem you like AND read it out as a voice note
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"I've been through the void. And I'll celebrate the fact that I have proof" Silence - The Plot in You
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May all beings be free from suffering, especially those who are trapped in hell.
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What allowed 80's PBS to reliably churn out Bodhisattva energy and what made it stop?
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Using terms in which the Mechanistic has no place is becoming more and more crucial E.g. the difference between Routine and Ritual. Learning scales in music is a routine - simple, repeatable, rote memory Going to my music teacher's home & then getting McD's for dinner? Ritual
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"I want to relate" 100% that is goal, but to relate to perceive and be sensitive. The next Buddha is The Sangha etc etc
Meditation is made for avoidants. I don’t want to meditate, I want to relate. It’s in that I can find the quiet that meditation would claim to give me
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ACTUALLY, it's not existential IF we do the "right" investments and innovations... I wonder who is going to try be the leader for these?
Bill Gates has significantly changed his stance on climate change, and in a new memo now says 'it will not lead to humanity's demise.'
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The universal pictogram for Toilets transcends depictions of "toilets" It was designed by Japanese designers for the '64 Olympics but not all countries used Western style toilets in the 60s (incl Japan) The symbol needed to be identifiable in a different context
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Do I freely use something when it feels abundant and conserve it when it's scarce? Yes, Trivial example: buying new toothpaste = huuuuge toothpaste squeeeze in the beginning weeks
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