hermit the cat
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apart from the obvious benefits such as providing feedback for the author, liking is also great if you’re using Twillot — their tool indexes all tweets you’ve liked and gives you a search functionality which I use all the time https://t.co/erqae29o06
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In the era of private likes, what function does “liking” a post have any more on X? If you want to engage, comment. If you want to save, bookmark. If it really moves you, repost. What does a like signify? Nice but not SO nice? (h/t DMs with @jamescham)
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“A devotee of interpretation cannot see a bird; he only sees it as a symbol.” “There is no implied meaning in my paintings, despite the confusion that attributes symbolic meaning to my painting. How can anyone enjoy interpreting symbols? They are 'substitutes' that are only
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It’s 2025. Governments are imprisoning their citizens for speaking the truth. Unelected bureaucrats are quietly passing laws intended to control every conversation and every purchase you make. Power and wealth are being consolidating in the hands of the few while the rest is
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Consulting businesses exist to provide cover for intuitive decisions by managers
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If you're an expert, choose the first option that comes to mind without hesitation. Every option you choose after is worse
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"waiting for the page to end" is exactly it algorithmic environments habituate you into a chronic anticipatory state where your attention never rests but keeps seeking the next dopamine hit you're always on the verge (constant low grade fight-or-flight) of finding the thing
Having done the dopamine experiment on myself of near zero screen outside of work time, over the last weeks of being back here re: music - I haven't read one book, and I've sat down to read but felt boredom and itchiness and "waiting for the page to end" I've been a lot more
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"you're 38?? bryan johnson should study you! what your secret? what's your stack? what are your chinese peptides?" "i drink coffee, i smoke weed, i walk all over the city, i eat good food, i bask in sun, i shitpost, when i concentrate i work on something i love" "seems french"
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He lost his seed.
Alan Turing feared losing his savings if Germany invaded Britain, so he used the money to buy two 90 kg silver bars, buried them in the woods, and wrote down the location in code. Later on when he wanted to dig up the silver bars he was unable to break his own coded message and
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Sokei-an Sasaki (founder of the Buddhist Society of America) and his synthetic perspective on the two extremes of human life: the ascetic and the bohemian from the January 1954 edition of Zen Notes
type of guy who's a mystic but a sensualist too
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This is somewhat of a half-baked post, but I find it fascinating that given all of the scientific breakthroughs we’ve made, we still lack a compelling unifying theory of emotions The majority of research tends to optimize for ‘regulation’ aka supression + coping strategies, as
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The most elegant solutions look inevitable in retrospect. They aren't some complex chain of tricks you've engineered out of nothing, but rather a simple abstraction that faithfully mirrors the shape of the problem.
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I know this one seedling genius lady in Canada who embraces her ADHD rather than fighting it by doing what she calls “da Vinci nights.” On da Vinci nights she lets herself be an ADHD renaissance woman. she covers the walls w paper to jot ideas on (with headers in French like
Everywhere I go I meet seedling geniuses growing in bad soil. If you know one of these, I am begging you to help them find better soil
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What’s scarier than CPMs rising this Q4? 😱 Running the same creative over and over. For one of our bra brand partners, we did the opposite — casting the first male creator in their account history. Not to shock, but to learn.
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@simonsarris Excellent treatise on the virtues of an epicurian life. I'd like to add a word on detachment: While we should eschew detachment from immersing oneself in a pleasurable moment, detachment also refers to the act of cultivating appreciation for, rather than mourning, the temporary
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This essay hits the nail on the head in terms of showing how misleading the label of "luxury" can be, and how we can take more pleasure in many more everyday experiences as long as we attune our senses to their value.
An essential belief of mine is that one should treat pleasure as something of a skill — it can be learned, cultivated, appreciated. We can study our senses and more for the sake of pleasure. A few notes towards that end.
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Most of what I do, I don’t have reasons for, but it could be said I do them because I find the interaction the most aesthetically pleasing way of participating in life that I see at the moment.
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Most of what I do, I don’t have reasons for, but it could be said I do them because I find the interaction the most aesthetically pleasing way of participating in life that I see at the moment.
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you should do EMDR. have you tried CBT? i know a great IFS coach. you can do some Focusing while i lead you through the Fetters. how is your meditation practice? you just need to work out every day. somatic experiencing will fix you. my ideal parent can beat up your ideal p
Stop weaponizing your healing. “I did X and healed” doesn’t mean everyone needs X. It means X worked for YOU. The moment you turn your personal breakthrough into “anyone who doesn’t do this wants to suffer,” you’ve become part of the problem.
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This November 29, one guest will experience the ultimate travel reward! Play all month and let your next adventure begin at FireKeepers.
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