everybody has been wronged, plenty of times, even though nobody ever did anything wrong
August 2022
it's been 1.5y and I still haven't seen this company take off smh come on people someone around here could surely found this
@acwints @ricvolpe @gptbrooke @BlackForestBoi I have initiated a lil DM group
@__justplaying @ricvolpe @BlackForestBoi it's live now!
@relic_radiation I downloaded it and threw it on a queue so maybe! no promises tho! you're free to seduce me into it further/again if you want, but I gave up saying "sure I'll read/watch/listen to that" as a casual thing awhile ago
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@fraserdeans I'm seeing this and I'm like "hmmm maybe you could be the one to build tesla for souls"
@fraserdeans @nickcammarata right! and Nick's point is that there are people out there with way more cash than they know what to do with, who are totally willing (probably some who have $ and think they're willing but aren't, but you'll discern that as you go)
@goblinodds @alt_visa not just different etiquettes but different things-to-pay-attention-to
if you have a credit card (and I guess a good passport) you have, straightforwardly in your agency, the power to be almost anywhere in the world in a couple days at most times, for most places, this will be a bad idea but it remains a thing you *could* do
this is a thought I've had before, newly enlivened by this article by @m_ashcroft on couldness which kinda leads you through a meditation on this expandingawareness.org/blog/couldness…
the whole thing resonates with my experiences the past few weeks of holding deep unknown about my travel plans
somehow also resonates with the meditation I talk about in this thread dying as a way into aliveness
in which some dogs play minimalist no-ball calvinball twitter.com/standardpuppie…
Thread · Nothing-to-do meditation: allowing myself to die in this moment · 1 of 19 tweets
@m_ashcroft ooh yeah, see this is totally fucking related
> It’s been amazing how often everything gets done just as well & just as fast, with what feels like half the effort. > When then makes me realize that half of my effort wasn’t effort at all, but just unnecessary stress that made me feel like I was doing my best.
Source is sive.rs/relax (via his book Hell Yeah Or No) but if you want more guidance on how to access this kind of effortless action, check out @m_ashcroft's course on Expanding Awareness expandingawareness.org/courses/
@m_ashcroft (he's offline this week—let's welcome him back with a bunch of course sales ❤️🔥)
@NLRG_it @nickcammarata @TylerAlterman tanha ~= grasping / collapsed awareness / fixation is my gloss here's me reflecting about the topic and linking to some sources I like:
@Cantide1 have you tried giving up just a little, as a treat?
@QiaochuYuan @bubbleteaPhD @nuanceexists dive right in ♫
@nosilverv I'm opposed to "tpot" as a reified thing, but I like subculture maps my influences include most of what's in that chart above, plus meaningness, buddhism, game b, robert gilman, kegan, coherence therapy, korzybski, synergetics, cybernetics, mcgilchrist, david deutsch...
@CXGonzalez as far as generating ideas, which is more what rival was claiming, many of the ideas here emerged from convos on twitter:
@CXGonzalez and a bunch of my thinking on browser/OS redesign also definitely has emerged from my experience of hanging out in this space
@CXGonzalez as @m2jr says, if you want to invent tech for the future, try living in the future and then looking around and seeing what needs to be invented we're on the forefront of something here. tbd what.
@krishnanrohit an english friend of mine said that Boris has a special kind of charisma that's only charismatic to brits, or something like that
me: I'll just go and have a fun lil break on typeracer typeracer: The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away...
@visakanv @bit_christ me just now:
@krishnanrohit I mean I was quite surprised that this particular friend found his style somewhat charming/endearing
@krishnanrohit so yes, some, but maybe not the subset you'd readily imagine
@krishnanrohit the book National Populism blew my mind a bit by pointing out that eg Brexit was popular not just with rural white brits but also with eg immigrants from africa or asia who wanted preferential immigration for other people from their countries, rather than from the rest of the EU
@PlaneHarvester yeah that sounds like a great idea! & consider not buying a return flight in advance, so you have the option to go to another country and fly back from there
@krishnanrohit ha, fascinating a friend of mine also pointed out that while 60% of brits wanted *some* brexit, part of why it was so hard to execute the referendum was that there was no more-detailed version of brexit that had majority approval which was illuminating
@crystaldbeasley when will
@crystaldbeasley how does
@crystaldbeasley will i
@crystaldbeasley can anyone
@crystaldbeasley why doesn't
@crystaldbeasley why do humans
@crystaldbeasley why can't humans (some pretty advanced questions here)
tag yourself I'm Freedom
I'm doing a new workflow experiment where I can't view tweets in my main browser profile (can tweet, message, & search (for now; we'll see)) then I have a separate one that can get tab explosions & then when I want to focus I'll just close it (blocked using existing userstyles)
unfortunately may take a bit of discipline to make this happen. we shall see if such discipline is available to me I'm exploring a new way of being I call "allow excellence", which is an attempt at unifying noncoercion & purposefulness (age-old puzzle)
wait maybe I can write a userscript that would............ somehow override every link on the twitter site so that it opens in a new window instead of a new tab, preventing tab explosions? hm hm hm
anyway if you want to encourage me to make this stuff easier for you to do, you can encourage me with money, over here:
Retweeted @relic_radiation
rather than saying “quiet the mind” can we start saying “presence the body”? feels clearer
@relic_radiation so fucking here for this—yes
I said "discipline" here but "discipline" is the wrong word. I was looking for "diligence"
😤✋❌ discipline: penitential chastisement; punishment for the sake of correction 😎👉✅ diligence: constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken
this is actually quite cool, I'm learning how to reply & QT my own recent tweets without ever viewing a tweet permalink currently if I view a page other than search results or compose or messages, it shows this:
right now, can I allow myself to simply do what I'm doing?
@utotranslucence I got these from etymonline 🤷♀️
@jonathandubin ooh nice
@AnneSelke me too :)
@khemaridh I mean I just got it from the book on the left
@khemaridh but I did make that particular graphic
Retweeted @_StevenFan
An idea I've been playing with is how nested concentric circles of attractive alternatives is how you get heavenly pockets…
@gptbrooke @_StevenFan @Johnicholas we all ultimately do have to share this universe
today in map-territory confusions: me: "okay, where to go today... well, better avoid that glowing hot exclamation mark in the middle of town"
money can remove external friction but it can't remove internal friction
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
how much of your days are spent unleashing what arises from within you vs responding to external stimuli (emails, de…
@CompliceGoals increasingly more of the first the next month or so is gonna be almost entirely the first, which I'm really excited for I've been doing a lot of navigating various pressures and I'm looking forward to having a lot more space to slow down & unpack my intentions
Replying to @MWStory
@MWStory @seconds_0 @VividVoid_ @eigenrobot sounds like someone who is trapped in the finite games
whoa wait, waiting is great now means I don't have to do shit and can just utterly rest
Retweeted @visakanv
how you structure it is very important, “X is possible” often does most of the heavy lifting people attempt with “X is true”…
@yellow_dusk The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
the utter gall of spellcheck to underline any Proper Noun as if the English dictionary contains the correct spelling of the names of every person & place in the world
@ricvolpe @joker_ayush_ Hi Ayush! If you want to answer a question, here's a question: What's something that seems more important to you now than it used to?
@chercher_ai drink water or milk instead most milk alternatives are basically expensive cloudy water check the macros—unlike milk they have almost no fat or protein frankly irresponsible to market them as nutritionally equivalent
Retweeted @the_wilderless
In which I accuse most of us of being dilettantes and hobbyists who need to pull their shit together …
@reconfigurthing one thing that has worked well for me is to tweet them anyway, not expecting anyone to understand sometimes people somehow do sometimes they don't and they inquire and help me tease out the necessary context you can start at the end
pretty sure I've mostly covered anger with sadness most of my life (except with bad design, which I can yell at all day)
video from June where I present a bunch of thoughts on how human superorganisms work cohosted with @RhysLindmark & roote.co super rough but there's some juicy stuff in there lmk what you think! ask Qs & I'll reply or record another vid youtu.be/_Kh3zBcrRug
also apparently I seem to tweet about videos with a couple day's delay sometime which if nothing else is useful for telling me that my vids get a couple dozen organic views from youtube (re "June"—the footage is months old but I uploaded it a few days ago)
Retweeted @a_m_mastroianni
Man I truly can't convey what a weird mystery this is and how understanding it is one of the most important things we…
> If you have too many thoughts you do Mahamudra, if you have too many desires you do Karmamudra. If you have both, you do both. Feeling a bit called out here 😅 (Mahamudra is quite similar to Dzogchen, which is also called Atiyoga below)
@nobu_hibiki *fellow gods ftfy
@myceliummage this is one of the beautiful things about the goal-crafting workshops I run—they start by asking "what's your vision for your life & the world?" and then introspection & healing are deployed as-needed to unleash energy TOWARDS THAT VISION
@myceliummage I seriously think it makes a huge difference. We've talked about running a workshop more geared towards "untangling internal conflict" or something, since that theme has shown up so much at GCIs... ...but this has me almost wondering if something's better about the current form!
is it just me or is crown shyness kinda sexy?
@myceliummage I guess there's sort of a few dimensions there. One is that the "goal-crafting" frame doesn't really imply doing a bunch of emotional work (we could probably rewrite the site copy a bit 😅) Could also still start an "untangling internal conflict" workshop with visioning! Hmm..!
if you knew that 5 minutes from now you'd completely forget what happened during those 5 minutes, what would you do? (first thing that comes to mind, don't overthink it. or do, but like, also share the first thing 😝)
Replying to @toomuchincosmos
@toomuchincosmos hmmm... it must make some sort of sense or it would be otherwise maybe there's something about the money being so up front? idk what the cold emails have been asking for
@__aphrodisiacs what's the main reason for which potential suitors are getting rejected by you?
Retweeted @jd_pressman
This is what degrowthers actually believe
Replying to @aptlyamphoteric
@aptlyamphoteric @azonenberg Someone did this with papadum and it worked great. Probably can find it on YouTube
@AgnesCallard They sent me to boarding school for high school instead and that was good because I finally had peers. Homeschooling would have been better for much younger me tho, when I was bored af in elementary school.
Retweeted @MasterTimBlais
who's up for "dual earner (but we're both really lazy about it)"
I'm in Berlin, and I wanna dance! anyone have up-to-date instructions on how to get to the Conscious Club? (and is Vulfpeck still the house band?)
my least favorite thing about travelling to foreign countries, so far, is figuring out where to buy basic things I'm sort of looking for the equivalent of a Pharmasave or a Walgreens: pharmacy + all household needs
@dismaien @GoldCBT @holisticalime I feel strongly this isn't true (as an "always"). I suspect you've mostly had run-ins with psychopaths, for whom it would be true, and I've mostly had run-ins with traumatized flailing non-psychopaths.
@dismaien @GoldCBT @holisticalime See also traumaandnonviolence.com, which lays out in detail how abusive school environments are perpetuated via unconscious panic attacks by people in power having flashbacks to moments they felt helpless.
Retweeted @MsMelChen
Wokeness leads to moral myopia on the left, but also the right. Imagine stanning for Putin and Xi because they are not pus…
Retweeted @visakanv
“We’re all here because we’re connected by following the same prolific shitposter”
@ckmcdona hmmm okay yeah I'm mostly not actually looking for the drugs, just stuff like mouthwash or nail clippers there was supposedly a DM near here but it failed to exist in the territory when I navigated to where the map told me
Retweeted @AskYatharth
there’s this confusion in popular media that feeling great feelings somehow entitles you to something but it doesn’t. you…
@AskYatharth Wow, direct hit
wish I could pay less for a hotel room and in exchange they don't change my sheets & towels every day, which I don't even want that would be nice y u gotta hire someone with my money to do a thing I don't want
all day, just plugging the top into the bottom
I'm doing some writing/editing in here, come cowork with me if you want! (I've really gotta build a better system for these rooms to notify your friends when you wanna cowork... hmm) complice.co/room/general
haggis pakora : glasgow :: currywurst : berlin
I'm lookin atchu
Replying to @sashachapin
@sashachapin @meditationstuff > It’s almost the method of Zen koans as I understand them, but using forbidding complexity, rather than forbidding simplicity, as a pointer towards the ungovernability of being. 🤣 checks out
@Rubanicdefeat @SeanMombo tight in the shoulders & thighs, loose & flowing towards the hands & feet
@Rubanicdefeat @SeanMombo long hair ofc too somehow long hair makes me feel both more feminine and more masculine
@FrancescoD_Ales yuppppp sounds like Complice—looks like a to-do list but is explicitly designed around ensuring that instead of a big ol' stale list, you have a fresh list every day
@FrancescoD_Ales and its workflow is structured around the flow of your day it doesn't manage the day for you (only you know what's actually important) but it creates a scaffold for you to be intentional
Retweeted @Namgnoi
the now page in @CompliceGoals ties together productivity and embodiment. you cannot have one without the other so you ping yo…
I recorded a video reflecting on a new very potent & direct kind of meditation that I've started doing a lot of. It includes a bit of pointers towards how to experience it, tho it's far from a guided meditation. Plus connections w PCT, L/R🧠, Dzogchen. youtu.be/A36iBHXnCGw
There's a part 2, which is shorter. youtu.be/GIxkQPPjGis
Here's the thread I did on the same topic last week, as a teaser (the videos go into way more depth, and evoke more of the the energy).
Thread · Nothing-to-do meditation: allowing myself to die in this moment · 1 of 19 tweets
@m_ashcroft I now have a video elaborating on what I talk about in this thread, and talking about a bunch more:
have you tried making a brand and selling the problem?
@Namgnoi @CompliceGoals you might like this video where I talk about the inner now page (not using those words, but that's a great frame for it) youtu.be/lhAuW5R6h2g
@Namgnoi @CompliceGoals or maybe even this video which is like the Now Page in meditation form: youtu.be/A36iBHXnCGw
....I am discovering that a substantial fraction of why my beard is so coarse & wiry isn't genetics at all, it's that I've basically never shampoo'd it. idk why not, it just hasn't been a thing I did, and I didn't really think about it. after one shampoo it's notably softer
@solar_chase I got the cheapest one in berlin that had air con 🤷♀️
@kalinh ah true, I forgot to put the thing on. I guess if I leave it on all day they just won't make up the room? I don't hotel often so I always forget about the cleaners coming around in the morning until they knock, and then I forget they'll come back later when I'm gone
@DRMacIver ^ best answer right here
and fucking gatorade or another rehydrating drink all the lil fucking stores here just sell soda & booze and protein bars
okay new narrower version: if you had the chance to send one message then forget you'd sent it, what would it be? (assume it's deleted or whatever, but the other person totally receives it & remembers seeing it (& I guess only knows you won't remember sending if you tell them))
@the_wilderless @s0ulDirect0r yup, totally the point is that insofar as those things remove internal friction, they do so by removing external friction that's preventing the internal friction from solving itself twitter.com/piva_jonas/sta…
@EyalShay2 Also true!
wtf, I tried to find one of my own posts (a pretty obscure one) and it's mirrored on this site that is aggressively trying to get me to give them ad revenue is there anything I could or should do about this? it ranked higher on brave search, tho not on google
sent this to brave 🤷♀️ > I tried to find my own blog post and the top result was this mirror site with ads. somehow your search needs to notice this bullshit, since like, even if I set aside my wants as a blogger, the post makes WAY less sense outside the context of my blog
okay how the hell did this tab end up open on my computer it's very relevant to my work oh wait, I remember seeing that image idk where I got the link from tho sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Highlights: Individualist models of social cognition face problems of infinite regress. Human interaction crucially jointly involves improvising unwritten rules created by a process of virtual bargaining. These unwritten rules are the foundation of culture and social structure.
soo @RichDecibels & I found the perfect place to have brunch in Berlin today talked about a bunch of stuff, including a sense of a shared meta-project "create sane self-transforming cultures", within which: - I do research - Rich does engineering - @visakanv does marketing
Replying to @dispirateparts
@dispirateparts 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎
@aladyonfire_ @RichDecibels @visakanv yeah it's the Wilde Matilde - wildematilde.de I'd walked past the night before at 2am and I thought I was at burning man specifically pink heart camp
advertising is reality distortion fields
getting neat effects from walking around inclining towards seeing everyone as enlightened 🍽️ guy setting tables is having a chop wood, carry water experience 💬 gal talking to her friend is speaking dharma 🚬 guy smoking is abiding in the sensation of his breath
subtle realization looking at the art in this video and like, it's kinda gross? but also kinda beautiful? and I just realized more clearly that I don't need to feel any way other than how I feel, looking at it and that's true of all art youtu.be/A22rt5TpZcQ
Qatar Airways check-in has hilariously bad UX at BER rn. It looks like you can line up for bag drop but then they force you into another line first. A few more ropes would half fix this, which I tried to explain, but 🤷♀️🤦♀️
I've got Pick Up The Pieces stuck in my head and it's a kind of erotic ecstasy just to tune into my inner radio atm.
patdown at the airport today felt really nice
Retweeted @relic_radiation
it’s not so much “do you believe in spirits and the divine” so much as “have you experienced that which many people ca…
and also "are you in a healthy relationship with your understanding of such phenomena, or trapped in an eternalistic reification" (dualistic or monistic)
@AskYatharth @eurydicelives @moothought my fav story of this is that after the tension had built up sufficiently, she angrily got up, crossed the room, then threw a condom at me
something important in here
new purple light photo, shall I make it my profile pic?
bubble wrap for your mouth
@ReneeSolana so many things we can't explain
Thread · Index of the 100 video project · 1 of 77 tweets
vid 38 - musing, meditation talking about dying-as-a-spiritual practice, while in a graveyard
hmm mediate 100 conflicts
How much self-awareness could a self-aware self be aware of, if a self-aware self could be self-aware?
naked bartender passes beverage to mezzanine enjoyer
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa Very down to cothink on this
Retweeted @danmelnick
In your mettā practice, instead of visualizing “sending” mettā to another person, try visualizing creating a comfortable nu…
Retweeted @jennykatzmusic
Game proposal: Mutual Aliveness Protocol, a kind of dynamic mapping. What happens if our agreement for relationship is…
Replying to @jennykatzmusic
@jennykatzmusic Fyeah. I've experimented a lil with a form much like this, with @ricvolpe, @TylerAlterman, @AnneSelke, @dismaien & others!
@nickredmark Idk but afaict it started happening to me *more* since I learned about stereotypes from people trying to prevent stereotyping, which,,,
huh, it's already dark in Bali at 7pm! I guess I'm calibrated to "summer well north of the equator" so that makes sense I'm surprised I've spent very little time in the southern hemisphere, and it was all in March so 🤷♀️
@__aphrodisiacs no alpha left in being disconnected from your feelings smh
"Whenever death comes, it comes soon."
(from p180 of Entering the Heart of the Sun and Moon by Ngak'chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen, talking about the honour of the pawo / warrior-hero)
me: "so one idea I had, which actually could be a whole series... although maybe the idea of the series is getting in the way of just doing one..." @m_ashcroft & @cecile_mcm: *nervous, knowing laughter*
sleep-deprivation is a cheap psychotechnology for a monk, but not for someone who's trying to do anything creative
@patrissimo @RoamResearch @Conaw How are things going with Roam? Thoughts from a few months in? (I seem to be the type of guy who when someone writes "can't know for months" snoozes it for months in order to ask!)
@justinspratt @patrissimo probably this was the impetus, but in that case *obviously* the answer is:
@justavagrant_ what *books* would I recommend for getting started with embodiment? 🧐 ...nice one 😂
@justavagrant_ anyway, I'd start with like why do they want to be more embodied? then something that moves in that direction. note that it's possible to have lots of physical playfulness & proprioception w/o much interroception / emotional association. I was that guy til BioEmotive in 2019.
Thread · The absence of long-haired men in panels and media · 1 of 8 tweets
in hundreds of movies on my plane, only 4-5 men featured with long hair, and none of them are normal dudes—knights, kings, and a psycho. - Gawain from The Green Knight - William Wallace from Braveheart - the king from The King's Daughter - Aquaman - Joker
> The Joker [was] a series in which [his] villainy prevailed over rival villains, instead of a struggle between good and evil. Because the Comics Code Authority mandated punishment for villains, each issue ended with the Joker being apprehended mandatory punishment for villains!
you can create temporary group synergy with naive trust (which is great for getting a taste!) antifragile, self-stabilizing group synergy requires non-naive trust (which is the real game-changer!)
sudden thought: someone doesn't get scared of something happening out there in the world, no matter how bad the outcome if you're scared, you're worried about something happening *to you* as a result (could just be "I'd judge myself for not having stopped the bad outcome")
@mattgoldenberg I originally said "get things done" in the out loud utterance than became this tweet. Idk, maybe I mean something like "strategic" since it's not just about doing.
Ohhhhhh it's also because being on the equator means that twilight is super short. That's the missing piece. It's not that sunset is crazy early (tho kinda) it's that 30mins after sunset it's pitch black.
@ReneeSolana @PsyArnav I've been playing around with "trust is subjective truth"
@djqualed Mmmm Yeah so in this model, you could feel concern, care, compassion, & plenty of motivation to do something, that'd be about the world (as you perceive it) But that if it's showing up as physiological fear, you feel personally threatened (or you have confused other for self)
@utotranslucence Ah oops I guess I forgot to warn you
@RichDecibels @visakanv More pics of the place, including the trapeze, a hoop, amazing cakes, and the scene the night before when I first saw it.
@jambarree @RichDecibels @visakanv Yup, seems about right! @naryan what's your role?
I'd tell some friend(s) that I love a particular obscure song and encourage them to learn it so they could surprise me by singing it with me
@__aphrodisiacs It was actually this idea that prompted the whole question:
@khemaridh I find it helps to really know exactly what I want. Both that jealousy can be a pointer to what I want, and also that when I get really clear on what I want it usually becomes obvious that I don't want *exactly* what they have. So then it becomes more like inspiration to remix.
@khemaridh hm, I think for many people there are other poverty traps before that ie other phases where you could get to a lower level of abundance that would be hard to get out of because you wouldn't have the slack to be strategic eg a shitty exhausting job, no time to start next biz
I'm gonna be tweeting 100 threads from the complice account over the next few months! kinda loosely aiming for one a day. most of them should be "say the obvious" so I think they'll be pretty easy to write! cc @visakanv
an overpowered workflow: 1. write until I know what to do 2. do until I don't know what to do 3. GOTO 1
@visakanv I'm a third of the way through 100 ideas (not assuming I'll hit 100 ideas today) and so far this is one of the first that sorta feels "interesting". ie one that I might have thought to write if I weren't trying to say the obvious
@PsyArnav @ReneeSolana wherever we want to!
Thread · Words that are definitely words but my browser dictionary rejects · 9 of 219 tweets
thread of words that are definitely words that my browser dictionary thinks are not words (inspired by the fact that I have a fresh dictionary for this new browser profile that I made to avoid twitter distraction) ie times when spellcheck is wrong
to be clear, these are for words that I would assume should already be in a dictionary, or that I create via obvious word+suffix (like "ongoingly") not for the times I *intentionally* coin a new word via portmanteau or etymology, eg:
"ongoingly" is a word
"proprioception" is a word
"interroception" is a word
"oof" is a word
"relatedly" is a word
"eg" is a word
"ie" is a word
@crystaldbeasley oof yeah relatedly, "why do many humans who were born with foreskin not have foreskin?"
@JimmyRis @AnnaWSalamon has been getting into Christopher Alexander and may have thoughts I'm still just poking at the top so far
@visakanv @_arvind @RichDecibels hey @mary_bajorek this seems like your vibe maybe
Retweeted @AskYatharth
when i first read about Malcolm’s emotional dream mash-up idea, it felt theoretical but fuck. the last few months it has…
@mattgoldenberg @DuckDuckGo idk wat it is under the hood but current default seems to be search.brave.com
Retweeted @JohnStokvis
Calvinball isn’t “no rules.” It’s figuring out which of the infinite rules in the universe you’re playing by this time.
@zoldort @AskYatharth gotta let the resentment flow through you though I feel like a lot of people get stuck in the bitter thing because they don't ever fully self-validate or something not sure what's going on there exactly but yeah
@relic_radiation @__aphrodisiacs yeah I was assuming given "hot girl" that she was doing the rejecting
@chercher_ai this is acceptable. idk what the solution is tho!
@Morphenius @AskYatharth @ChasingMyself oh, I'm actually not sure I'd read the 2nd half of the thread, where he talks about that
@OwenTho41916182 mmm, cool! want to share more about that practice?
@algekalipso I was like "do I belong on qualia twitter? Andrés tagged me..." and then I looked over to my other window where I had this old thread of mine open and I was like "okay fair"
Replying to @jennykatzmusic
@jennykatzmusic @ricvolpe @TylerAlterman @AnneSelke @dismaien I'm sure I'll talk about it at some point. from now you could kinda reverse engineer it from this blog post: malcolmocean.com/2022/06/what-i…
@jennykatzmusic @ricvolpe @TylerAlterman @AnneSelke @dismaien and a this blog post: malcolmocean.com/2022/05/aiming…
Replying to @jennykatzmusic
@jennykatzmusic @ricvolpe @TylerAlterman @AnneSelke @dismaien @taptiklis @ChristineSamuel @BernhardResch oooh I'm interested in hearing about difference as a resource! makes me think of this:
@jennykatzmusic @ricvolpe @TylerAlterman @AnneSelke @dismaien @taptiklis @ChristineSamuel @BernhardResch and also this caveat:
Replying to @joker_ayush_
@joker_ayush_ @ricvolpe beautiful
Replying to @VectorOfBasis
@bilalghalib @RichDecibels @visakanv @humsys I'm already in Bali, hanging with @m_ashcroft met @edelwax briefly the day after I met Rich and was at Moos later that eve:
Replying to @ElodesM
@ElodesM yessssssssssss so here for this
@billiamfrances @visakanv it was then that I carried you
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"chakra" is a word
"sacral" is a word
@PsyArnav @visakanv for chakra retrieval, please press the number corresponding to the missing chakra 1 for root 2 for sacral 3 for solar plexus 4 for heart 5 for throat 6 for third eye 7 for crown we may need to confirm your identity. if you have transcended your identity, please press #
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"organize" is a word
@zencephalon @chercher_ai haha yeah I think almost everyone expands out to the edges of the car, it's going further that's the challenge
some months ago I got @uthmanzi to transcribe a bunch of my podcast appearances and organize the transcripts by themes into my public roam for future remixing 🔀 he did a great job & he's available for hire if you also want such a service (explore here: roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmo…)
@visakanv @DarbraDawn > I would love to say I have an idea of how to do this but I legit struggle with it every time maybe you do have an idea how to do it when a friend needs help, but not for yourself and that's okay; it's legit different
@irfan3 thanks! I'm eating my first gojek food order this very minute
@irfan3 oh fuck that's super vital wtf are they thinking
@CXGonzalez these cool remixable podcast transcripts:
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"remixable" is a word
this thread is gonna be kinda like @visakanv's "<trending> tweet" thread,, but Malcolm-flavored
(if you dunno what I'm talking about, it's this)
(I'm not going to name every instance of UK/American spellings as it would be kinda boring)
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"cowork" is a word
me & @sixstringalice just had a great call talking about how she created a thriving coworking room on complice.co, by encouraging her friends to come cowork and designing the culture for friendliness and focus: I'm working on a guide now youtu.be/CMGVblSvdLg
the security of knowing that the insecurity isn't going away
@crystaldbeasley is it legal to (indonesia edition apparently, since I'm in bali)
@huggingpuppy ha :)
I keep wanting to use "pretext" or "pretense" in a slightly incorrect way, basically "I used it as a pretense to message her". Pretense implies active deception though, & what I mean is more like just an impetus, but also a reason. "excuse" is closest denotationally but also bad?
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"denotationally" is a word
Retweeted @benskuhn
My hot take about questions to ask people at parties is that judging people based on the first question that comes out of the…
the replies to this all agreeing that they use it similarly to me is amplifying my pre-existing distaste for dictionaries. apparently, in practice, pretext or pretense can both mean "a not particularly deceitful cover reason for doing something" use words however works!
@nomisWon it's not an allowing thing, more just like, a segue from nothing into something "I wasn't texting you, but then I saw this flower that reminded me of you, and now I'm texting you. but while I'm at it, how've you been?"
@benskuhn yuppp and part of the puzzle is you need to negotiate your way to a compatible style from within your perhaps-currently-somewhat-incompatible styles
@benskuhn and one of the best principles for anyone to bring in if they want this to go well, which you're pointing at here, is that there are no wrong notes! you've gotta improv and find a way to make whatever has just happened flow smoothly as part of the scene
Retweeted @benskuhn
I think you'll have a better small talk experience if you try to collaboratively negotiate a conversational style that works…
@aleksil79 online ones could. they could have people and web-crawlers actively checking for evolving meanings like this, somehow would be neat actually to see if my parents or grandparents would also understand this use of "pretext"—it might not actually be that new!
@bilalghalib no "but" here as far as I'm concerned! etymologies are the shit! and at this point we're not going to lose track of how things changed. and sometimes meanings do completely reverse, and that's part of the fun of evolving language. it's all live play
@bilalghalib curious what your (1/100) is! what are you working on? (if you don't mind sharing)
I've started doing some freestyle in a fast-style rap, like Busta Rhymes in Look At Me Now (see next tweet) and it's really trippy. So far just doing it alone under my breath, which is necessary because it's not compatible with self-consciousness OR filtering. ...32nd notes!
(example of the fast style I'm referring to—I'm not quite hitting this tempo (...73bpm) and also obviously since I'm freestyling the lyrics aren't this good) youtube.com/watch?v=VHUIBj…
the key I've found is to actually just start making syllables this fast and focusing on making sure to keep making sounds at this tempo, then kinda filling them in with words that work/rhyme & make any sense meanings. start by sounding funky but unintelligible
which, honestly, since most people can't readily make sense of rapid-fire 400-600 syllables per minute *anyway*... ...is already kind of impressive. act cocky like you're saying deep stuff and if people don't understand they're just not following
last tip, tho it applies more to words-first freestyling than rhythm-first freestyling, is to have something to say. you might deviate from it—that's great!—but pick a topic to start with, even just describing your surroundings or talking about your day so far
making a tiny change for complice.co today re goal archive/restoring, and while testing it, by chance, the goal I restored had been archived exactly 6 ago. so I pulled up "on this day" and lo, *8* years ago today, I shipped the archive feature! complice.co/m/on-this-day/…
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"eternalistic" is a word
@z_a_c_h_k_a_t_z @betterstreetsai get an intern 👍
@z_a_c_h_k_a_t_z @betterstreetsai let people vote with money custom tip jars for different requests
Retweeted @visakanv
[mumbles to self] there’s something interesting about how trees are not a type of plant, but really a strategy for all sorts…
Retweeted @ElodesNL
so what if I fear I'm not hot? let others, not me, reject me. so what if I fear I take up too much space? let others, not me…
@nosilverv "experience" colloquially includes "meanings", whereas people (perhaps falsely) I think implicitly take quales to be more sensory
@the_wilderless I simply don't think about it
@GronerJonas idk but gotta tag @jasoncbenn and @__drewface & @Prigoose and @danielgolliher
beware of forming opinions about cities from people who don't live there meet someone in Vancouver who has an opinion about living on the island, and it's invariably negative and the people who chose to leave SF... think SF is awful! ...this uhhh doesn't tell you much!
Retweeted @the_wilderless
The word “school” descends from a greek word meaning “leisure,” because leisure time was when you’d have engaging dis…
@imperialauditor one tip for tinnitus is to lean into it rather than try to make it go away. just like "yep, this sound is supposed to be here" acceptance works wonders I've never had chronic tinnitus but it's worked well for acute ringing, and I've heard it's good for severe/chronic as well.
Replying to @locatoast
@locatoast words I don't want to say, kinda more like meanings that are hanging out in the shadow/periphery ready to be rapped but would be rude/weird to say sex stuff, shit stuff. it's honestly kinda wild how some of those thoughts start flowing when I let them freestyling as shadow-work
@magicianbrain ah true! it's not showing up in this dictionary with either tho, so my point stands (& my right-click had no "u meant 1 r" option)
Retweeted @mattgoldenberg
I used to be chronically and habitually late to things. Now I'm "known" for being on time and respecting time in my co…
@mattgoldenberg yeah I feel if I tried this there would also be at least a couple conflicts to work through on various levels of abstraction (not wanting to wait, not wanting to have to be monitoring time) even tho yeah on net I could imagine it coming out the same way. kudos & good writeup
@utotranslucence @djqualed hmmm, yeah! maybe an intentional, appropriate con-fusion that extends the self-boundary outward to include the kids tho there are also dysfunctional versions of this
@nosilverv @uthmanzi might know someone (I forget where exactly you are so forgive me if it's not relevant!)
@__aphrodisiacs I mean I think basically you say it, and maybe hold a boundary, if that feels right (like just refuse to hang out with them in that state) and if they can't handle that, 🤷♀️
Retweeted @maskys_
Also great to find tweets by others! So you'd search... filter:retweets include:nativeretweets from:follows myKeyword
@chaosprime I also like "obviously" which is the opposite direction from most of those — it makes a strong bid for agreement. use only when appropriate, obviously.
@chaosprime (I call some of these "co-epistemic status tags" since they're about my model of *your* epistemic status as well as my own)
@MasterTimBlais nailed it
@MasterTimBlais I'm still laughing 🤣
@hyponymous Both ways, yup. Ultimately gotta find out for yourself which kind of person you are.
Replying to @altkhirashi
@altkhirashi Depends a lot for me. I've had a 120h workweek (8 days technically) coding on a project when my housemates went away, and it was very productive. But I couldn't write that many hours I don't think.
short post explaining my Non-Naive Trust Dance framework in Q&A form most important thing is clarification that I mostly think NNTD is important at this phase for people doing leading edge culture work. relevant to everyone, but not a priority for most. malcolmocean.com/2022/08/nntd-q…
@AskYatharth Synergetics is the only book I have with me in Bali right now. Waved it at @m_ashcroft today. I've finished a first pass but I'm stoked to do a second. Working on a post about "synergic mode"
@AskYatharth @m_ashcroft (that's a thread with a few excerpts btw)
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"freestyling" is a word
People tell me I almost never talk about my business on here, and I'm starting to change that (don't worry I'll still talk about everything else) I have an app! It's really cool. It can help you make meaningful progress towards what matters to you 🚀
if you don't wanna try it out now but want to be slowly seduced into trying it out, give @CompliceGoals a follow—I'll be tweeting a new thread every day or two about the app, the philosophy, and other workflow & intentionality-related topics!
@OortCloudAtlas @BerkeleyAlembic @GabrielSchama
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"comboing" is a word (although I'm really not surprised this one isn't in the dictionary as its an awkward-to-write (tho not to say!) verb conjugation of a slang noun - "combo" is already in there though!)
@khemaridh first that comes to mind is my own: I realized I had enough grade points to pass a course I was taking before I got started on the term project worth 25%, and I just... didn't do it, because I wanted to focus on building complice.co
@khemaridh I had a detailed spreadsheet where each term I would load in the course syllabus and grade weights, and plan what to ace, what to wing, and what to ignore completely. Saved me tons of hours of unnecessary work through university.
While writing a thread to talk about complice.co and a sick beat comes on and I start freestyling and I'm like maybe I should make a rap about Complice instead Decided to do both. Thread took half an hour, rap took 2 minutes... and the rap is better 😆
the thread, for comparison it's fine, it says more detailed stuff ofc but it's lacking the... aliveness? that's in the rap.
maybe I could try comboing them and doing a freestyle complice twitter thread? hmmmm
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"tempeh" is a word (!!)
@utotranslucence @nickcammarata @RomeoStevens76 oh no we're a type of guy now ....also don't tell anyone but there were some potatoes in with the tempeh I bought tonight and they were... actually good! 🤨 sus. I'll have to do more research this week 🧐
@RomeoStevens76 hmm this site talks about a combination potato diet (they claim it's a single food tho which is sorta sus since botanically the foods are totally unrelated) popsci.com/nutrition-sing…
@m_ashcroft @Morphenius our memes are spreading
Replying to @willmatheson
@willmatheson @altkhirashi yeah it's the kind of thing where if someone were telling me to do that, I'd be like "fuck off" but when it was like "the house is empty, I get to blast infected mushroom and do nothing but code for a week?!?" now sign me the fuck up
@zoldort @AskYatharth yeah, and maybe it can get met on some other level that isn't actually literal revenge, but satisfies the underlying need
@PlaneHarvester nice main thing to do is just do a lot of it I've definitely done at least 100 freestyles at this point (tho most of them not recorded)
@betterstreetsai @z_a_c_h_k_a_t_z idk but if you make a top-level tweet soliciting ideas there's probably something out there that's perfect for this and you have enough followers that someone will find it for you
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"memetics" is a word
awaiting the sunset in Bali with @cecile_mcm & @m_ashcroft (photo is from hours ago - it's 3am here now) we've been trying to smash all the modalities together—expanding awareness, dying meditation, coherence therapy, we-ness, synergetics, PCT, McGilchrist, memetics, complice
as the sun was setting I did some socratic method on M to help him make sense of what he knows of the moon's orbit, which was a ton of fun socratic method best for stuff like this I think
mistake theory but for cynicism
@visakanv oooh, yeah. Complice doesn't directly guide you through doing all of these things, no. It's a better scaffold for it than most systems because it does keep goals on your radar rather than just piles of tasks & projects. I want to add more stuff for iterating strategy.
@visakanv like currently a lot of that happens implicitly through the reviews. a lot of these Q are subtle though... maybe the thing to do would be to add them to the yearly reviews, like - how has what I want evolved re this goal? - how has the world changed? what opportunities exist now?
@BlackForestBoi do a freestyle for Memex! (or I could try doing one haha)
Replying to @locatoast
@locatoast fuckyeah
@relic_radiation @CompliceGoals do a freestyle! or something else weird and improvisational to market your work
@AskYatharth @ChasingMyself @Morphenius oh, this ~game theory paper is also super relevant, talking about how people simulate each other and negotiate then execute the results of the negotiation when there's an obvious outcome (not just in zero sum contexts) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
@AskYatharth @ChasingMyself @Morphenius animals also do simulated negotiation, backing down rather than fighting to the death, when it's clear who would win but my sense is that humans can do it way deeper or more "internally" or something
@AskYatharth @ChasingMyself @Morphenius @vervaeke_john if you haven't come across this paper, I'd recommend checking it out, as it's pointing at a very fundamental phenomenon in human relating > communication – and specifically language, in terms of which explicit rules are formulated – presupposes virtual bargaining
@RobertHaisfield @visakanv Took a couple years but this remix documentation now exists for complice.co! Will remix the thread into a blog post at a future date.
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
Everything is a Remix! I like to think I'm original, but I'm totally a remix 🔀 What songs went into the Complice mashup…
@arram Hi, it's me being the "follow up with an old thread that speculates about the future and ask how it's going now" guy, as I like to be! How's the equanimity/discomfort/noticing-resistance going a month out?
@fortelabs @theoliverhinz @khemaridh friendly neighborhood follow-up guy here how's the streamdeck XL? need all those buttons?
@SeishinWrites curious if the internal voice shift persisted, or how it stabilized! (found this via a search for "too soon to tell" when I was replying similarly to another old tweet I came across and thought I'd see if there were others)
> it'll also enrich our society > it'll make it possible for us to live anywhere we like > any businessman could live almost anywhere on earth, and still do his business, through a device like this me, working on growing my business from a cabin in Bali right now: not_bad.png
@vgr the framing of this coverage is probably related:
one side-benefit of how intentions for Complice are clearly delineated by day and you have to make a fresh list each day... ...is that I get motivated to do things before bed from the pleasure of not having to put them on my list again 😆
@fractalfoxnode it's pretty good for both so far!
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"journalling" is a word
Want to get more clarity on: - what matters to you? - what you want your life to be like? - what you're trying to do in the world? We've got the workshop for you! Learn more:
Sign up here: complice.co/event/gci?tw=m…
singing is a meditation on the breath watching children grow is a meditation on death
was looking through my spam folder to see if I'd missed an email I was expecting, and found one with the subject "searching For A Caring Dude" and somehow I think that's sweet.
is there a site where people review web-apps? I asked a new excited Complice user about tweeting what she'd just said in the chat to me, and she was like "I don't really use social media but I'd be happy to review it somewhere"
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
Tickets now available for our yearly Goal-Crafting Intensives, a unique online workshop that doesn't exhaust you with ho…
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
Want to get more clarity on: - what matters to you? - what you want your life to be like? - what you're trying to do in…
@visakanv @LordChisholm yessss ❤️🔥 & I see @mary_bajorek
@arram yeah this stuff is super slippery. I've been exploring this dying meditation recently, which also has huge acceptance elements, and it's very powerful but also so easy to loose track of the move that goes really deep
I'm interested if anyone has feedback on this video, also! this is kind of my first foray into making something like this. tagging my marketing guys @visakanv @ungatedcreative @daemonhugger
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"notificationless" is a word
I first used "notificationless" with a positive connotation, as in "this notificationless medium, not distracting" but searching twitter it seems like a lot of people use it to mean more like "I am notificationless" = "nobody loves me / nothing's going on"
finally read this paper and it's super good. between this and John Vervaeke I'm tentatively encouraged about the state of academia wrt cogsci.
new moment who dis
nice joke, if you can get it
since I have a pool outside my door for the next few weeks, I decided to learn to breathe underwater! ie to exhale so as to not get water up my nose was easier than I thought! after 1-2h of bubble-blowing & swimming last few days, I did my first dive in decades just now 🏊♂️
Replying to @locatoast
@locatoast Jessica, but snarky :)
Retweeted @CXGonzalez
what’s your favorite definition of God?
@meansinfinity I'm working on marketing Complice & GCI, and threads+vids are happening which is an improvement! worried I'll lose steam before getting much traction tho. I need better feedback loops or something I think. tryna improve analytics but maybe even b4 that
@AnneSelke @meansinfinity "how make 1 decision if they all interlink" MOOD.
@fraserdeans ooh, I'm in bali rn with lots of scooter taxis, and I've definitely felt a sense of needing to keep my wits about me this tweet of yours is encouraging me to do so even further!
Replying to @locatoast
@locatoast @alt_visa babes 🤩
Neat thread on "what counts as touching". There's definitely something about the palm of the hand.
Years ago I thought it'd be cool to map out which body parts are considered most private to touch, but it occurs to me you'd have to ask "with what?" (+context) because you'd think boobs would be very high but one "touches" them with one's chest with every hug. but diff obvi!
new experiment: scroll the TL and completely let go after every tweet, then choose whether to read another (context: )
the concept of "squirrelling" is one of the most useful things I got from doing parliamentary debate in highschool (not the crazyfast kind) basically means distorting a definition beyond recognition, to make a case ift.tt/WZ7Vm4o
Replying to @VectorOfBasis
@VectorOfBasis it's real it's when you smoke marijuana then go running (I haven't actually tried this) source: ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/03/bod…
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"psychotechnologies" is a word
with the right psychotechnologies you can turn the dopamine attack into a font of mindfulness the key is to be allowy, not forcy twitter.com/proetrie/statu…
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"forcy" is a word "allowy" is a word
"ahh" is a word
how to be allowy, not forcy? ahh, that's the million-dollar question
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"essentialism" is a word
@aleksil79 nothing new about it hill → hilly rain → rainy juice → juicy sass → sassy allow → allowy I'm just allowing the -y prefix to form new words, like it always did before dictionaries made people think that there was a finite set of words
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"proto-" is a prefix
@jessicamalonso @WillGraywood @AskYatharth largely I resonate with Jessica's perspective here, though I'll note she says "creepy men", not "creepy interactions" which evokes a judgment of him (which is sort of proto-ostracism) rather than just a "this is my internal 'no' signal"
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"misattunedly" is a word
@AskYatharth @jessicamalonso I think it's actually slightly implied by her opener "just got hit on at an EA meetup :/" that people shouldn't do that (that = 'hit on @ EA'). ofc then you get the "creepy men shouldn't" distinction contrast "someone just tried to hit on me really misattunedly at an EA meetup"
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"randos" is a word
this thread is a fucking blast. I've been wanting to do it for a long time but didn't want to start after some words were already in my dict because then they'd never get added I use a nonstandard word like every other tweet, sometimes 2-3 in one tweet 😮
@AskYatharth @jessicamalonso probably someone has ever said this: "just got hit on at an EA meetup! finally an opportunity to date someone who shares my values. I'm so sick of randos on dating apps!" although maybe not the gal who wrote the original post! but uhh
@AskYatharth @jessicamalonso someone pointed out that the "..." may imply that "hit on" is being used sort of euphemistically, which is an important point but doesn't much affect the thing I'm concerned about here
@JgaltTweets @NathanpmYoung yeah, or potentially a way to make a bunch of money by publishing a fake story 😬 one of the things that currently makes me relatively inclined to believe people who share their stories about this stuff is that there's not much benefit to faking one. if there *were*...
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"lol" is a word
lol @visakanv is the only one who has liked these tweets. he gets it. I guess most people don't really get his thread I compared mine to, so uhh I really can't be surprised here 😅
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"10am" is not a word but shouldn't have a spellcheck underline. maybe it's a word? what are words 🤨
I hereby come out as an honest hypocrite, along the axis described below. (replies about hypocrisy & self-honesty only here—I don't want to talk about the object-level situation on twitter. feel free to name other axes for honest hypocrisy tho!)
@visakanv yup yup, I ain't gonna quit. this is fun for me—that's part of why I drew the parallel with your thread
@SurenVynn Great points. cf @aphercotropist re "personal space is real"
@m_ashcroft ohoho, I shall try that
@csageland @bengrosser I use some custom scripts to obliterate twitter's unread count and I haven't looked back
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"haha" is a word (seriously I think that spellcheck thinks all writing is for fucking highschool essays) ...."highschool" is a word
@visakanv also I'm the perfect person to do it bc I basically never make typos or spelling mistakes (somehow) so I just actually don't expect to see the red squiggles ever hence if I type something a particular way, even if nonstandard, I consider it correct (eg "highschool" just now)
@visakanv interestingly tho I was one character short on that tweet, so I was like "fuck I need to edit something" and since I didn't feel like removing a word I decided to edit "because" to "bc" but somehow I don't really feel like "bc" is a word yet, so I left the squiggles
@visakanv "tho" is a word tho
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"tho" is a word
@manriquechacin not the thing I'm looking for here but it's cool! I bet I could get a pretty high ranking on it if the stuff posted was interesting enough
just tried to find this with "joke" [about the outcomes you want], which is what I'm doing below, and "get paid" and neither worked. eventually tried "good tho" and that found it but won't for long since I use that phrase a lot.
@brad_compton @VectorOfBasis what's the penultimate chapter?
@notyetzealous all of the coaches are in all the coach channels, so I'll be there!
I now have a thread that catalogs my adding dozens (eventually hundreds or thousands) of words to my browser dictionary
@relic_radiation I'm reaching new levels of shamelessness on this trip, particularly around not knowing things or how to do things, or around having my values and preferences be what they are I was already better than most but now this is so fucking liberating
@trunkfishh @CXGonzalez faster airport security in america is available to all americans and canadians for like $50 and giving them your fingerprints (nexus, tsa pre) is there a rich-person way that's better?
@arram haha so true, yeah. and then you've gotta keep finding the moon after your left hemisphere tries to replace it with the finger again
@notyetzealous Excellent! A friend of @RichDecibels', it looks like!
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"convo" is a word
@DRMacIver yeah I don't quite know if it's hypocrisy either but I figured I'd just go ahead and own the thing without trying to quibble about the frame first and now we get to have the convo here
@DRMacIver and yeah I saw your cheeseburger thread about just acknowledging that it's okay to do bad things, in order to be able to actually steer properly rather than flinching away from anything tagged as bad (and avoiding tagging things to avoid such flinches)
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"superbugs" is a word, unfortunately
@DRMacIver I am also in a whole phase where for about a decade I wasn't using good/bad right/wrong at all, and I'm still mostly not in any absolute sense. so you have to say "bad for who" and the answer is "bad for the animals" (& ecosystems, & workers, & bc superbugs) but uhh duh
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"doozy" is a word
@RichDecibels if I assume that it actually understands the idea and doesn't just remix the tweet, it would probably be this doozy:
@CXGonzalez in my atheist phase I used to use "a combo of {the strong and weak nuclear force} and {love}" so I could still sing hymns I loved without getting a null-pointer exception
@CXGonzalez if I had to define God now, I might say "everything, as beheld by my right hemisphere"
not everything worth doing takes effort!
@RichDecibels if it had to be more straightforward, I might go with the concept of "negative-effort activities"
idea: a website showing remix-sources for products crowdsource initial suggestions (like whosampled.com) then get official creator-provided write-ups as well @remixeverything have you heard of anything like this?
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a site to show the various other products or ideas that got remixed into the products you love
I spent a couple hours in limbo tonight because I was like "I've gotta do a thread" then I didn't actually want to spend the time. so I'm gonna kinda relax the "every (other) day" thing here. still intending to consider writing a thread every day, but lots of space to choose not
we are constantly co-creating language dictionaries are just documenting that process—ever imperfectly and always with a delay they're not the authority; we are
@aleksil79 exactly
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"afaict" is a word "afaik" is a word (huh, the dictionary knew this one in all-caps, as AFAIK) "afaicr" is a word
"ymmv" is a word (also in the dictionary in all-caps)
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I am coming to the conclusion that everything I was trying to get myself to do is better approached by exploring how to allow myself to do it 😤✋❌ how do I get myself to do the thing? 😎👉✅ how do I allow myself to do the thing?
if "I want to do the thing", great! the motivation IS THERE, for some part of me calling itself Malcolm. the issue is that some *other* part of me doesn't want to do the thing, for whatever reason, or I'd simply be doing it
so there's a part of me, in other words, that isn't *allowing* me to do the thing that I supposedly want to do (I say "supposedly" because the part claiming I want to is necessarily also partial) and that's the part with the agency to enable the thing!
so the question is: if I supposedly want to do a thing, and I'm not, can I find the part of me that doesn't want to do it, inhabit its perspective, see what it's caring for, and bring that into contact with my desire to do the thing & the whole situation?
this is a lens on using the therapeutic reconsolidation process *in each moment* kind of implicitly inspired by PCT, along with a ton of other things including @m_ashcroft's stuff I'm sure plus my dying meditation
I'm practicing this on really basic stuff atm eg "can I allow myself to get out of bed?" 🛌 which was the motivating impetus for the first tweet in this thread (which I thought I'd tweeted a couple days ago but apparently it got lost somehow)
of course, the even further extremes of "get myself to do" are "make myself do" or "force myself to do". but it's not about the force, it's just that "get" is still privileging the perspective that already *wants* to do the thing, not the part that is disallowing it.
worth noting that there may be a "should you reverse any advice you hear" thing here afaict this new approach is thoroughly backed by systems thinking and in some sense universally applicable, but its pragmatic usefulness for me rn may be related to the phase I'm at ymmv!
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"exaptation" is a word (a neologism, but coined in 1982 and has 20k papers about it so it should be in fucking dictionaries by now)
"googleable" is a word
this thread is activism:
oh fascinating, just discovered that "neologism" is supposed to refer specifically to a word that is new but has substantial traction before that it's a "prelogism" and before that it's a "protologism" ...unfortunately, neither of those words took off! 😆
I can sorta see the use for those concepts, especially "protologism" to refer to unpublished jargon used in private notes or by a closed group, but every prelogism wants to be a neologism so there's an incentive to say that it is (I do this)
if what makes something a protologism is that it hasn't been published anywhere... I think the difference between a prelogism and a neologism is roughly that with a neologism you can look up the meaning somewhere even tho it's new, whereas a prelogism you can't
this means that which category a word falls into depends on context! the word "ontum" isn't googleable, but someone who sees me use it on twitter may well look it up and find my thread:
Thread · Late-night journal notes on streaks, freedom, and allowing diligence
[this thread basically unedited notes to self; sharing with permission] okay fuck it's @ 24:37. I came back intending to do a complice thread, and apparently what I wanted to do on net was to fuck around on twitter, mostly and that's in some sense profoundly okay
but yeah, in that tunnel I lost a couple hours and I lost touch with the sense in which I could just close out my twitter-profile browser window and get it back later
I went and looked at potential threads to write, and bounced off it, because I didn't want to write a long thread hell, iirc I don't feel like I wanted to write a thread at all, I wanted to work more on my synergy or nonprofit plan writing
fuck, and instead I did neither okay, not really digging the streaky vibe on this [I tweeted this at about this point in the journalling 👇]
I kinda do want to hit a streak on doing *something* towards growth each day, til the end of bali but in the day I want to feel a lot more freedom to do WHAT MAKES SENSE, GIVEN EVERYTHING youtube.com/watch?v=lm2kv_…
and sometimes I might intentionally scope down, like "what makes sense, given that I want to focus on complice growth rn?" but that's different from a cached plan
this is a deliberately weird way of working yesterday what got the GCI vid out was that I had it on my list!
so that is sometimes the right way to do things or at least sometimes it works but I'm practicing a new way of being, here and that matters to me to not just push through, but be sensitively iterating
I'm practicing allowing excellence, allowing diligence. one moment at a time taking the time to listen to all of my perspectives
fuck yeah, tweeting this was exactly what I wanted to do right now, damn. and it drew out the Allowing thread quoted above exaptation mindset! youtube.com/watch?v=Ub4_kr…
google should step up its game and use THE DATA IT ALREADY HAS to offer a spellcheck that actually keeps up with which words are clearly real words it's embarrassing that they claim to offer "spellcheck" and constantly underline real words
Thread · Index of the 100 video project · 2 of 77 tweets
vid 39 - freestyle rap, marketing this is the first freestyle rap video I've posted (afaik) and I think in some sense the first marketing video. it won't be the last of either! (I'd never heard this beat before either)
vid 40 - pitch, marketing oh right yeah literally an hour later I posted another marketing video. did 4 takes on this one to made sure it said all the right stuff:
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"improvisationally" is a word
"attunement" is a word
@jessicamalonso @meaning_enjoyer my experience is that a ton of the fear is due to not being able to gauge where you are on the map which is defs partly lack of attunement but is also due to the ambiguity of what the complaints refer to "he sexually assaulted me" - grope or penetration? 3rd date or boss?
@jessicamalonso @meaning_enjoyer I think it's hugely problematic that we don't have separate terms for "sexual contact that was unwanted but the other person was engaged in wishful thinking" vs "sexual contact that was unwanted and the other person was getting off on that fact" obviously it's complex, but still
@jessicamalonso @meaning_enjoyer (a lot more I could say about this but not more I want to say about it before I go to bed)
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"dgaf" is a word
Canadians or other people who dgaf which English they're using! For chrome/brave, you can turn on spellcheck for multiple Englishes (and if you sort plain "English" to the top maybe that helps too). I'm free!
wait I fixed it (for browser, anyway)
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"trippy" is a word
Thread · Allowing yourself to do the thing instead of getting yourself to · 2 of 11 tweets
ah yeah it's trippy—the more dominant part *also* has to allow pausing to take the perspective of the other part
there's a whole dance here, which ultimately is the thing I call a trust-dance full-fractal buy-in this koan
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"prescriptivism" is a word 🤣
is "im" a word? eh, barely I don't like it & don't use it so I don't want it in my dictionary (since it would be a typo if I did) but people do use it (I don't see it often) and I do recognize it, so in that sense it gets the job done and is thus a word, prescriptivism be damned
@fraserdeans oh wow, like you had a sense the driver wasn't attentive enough or something! damn, yeah, trust tha gut.
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"fwiw" is a word (dictionary already had "FWIW", fwiw)
@notyetzealous nice! what are some of your favorite psychotechnologies?
@remixeverything so far Rob's thread above is the closest thing I know of to such a collection I also did a pretty detailed thread for my app:
@GwynneThomson @trunkfishh @CXGonzalez oh that's a whole different threshold of rich, yeah. how much money does it take to have a private jet? huh, it looks like costs have gone way done, and there are now "private shuttles" that use private jet facilities but scheduled flights forbes.com/sites/douggoll…
@jessicamalonso @meaning_enjoyer yeah fwiw I was sort of reasoning by analogy here, tho it's related "hit on" is even more ambiguous than "sexual assault" - it can refer to something wanted or unwanted, and a HUGE range of behaviors from a subtle subtext to aggressive touch or questioning.
@senguidev My impression (and I've heard others talk about this) is that practicing & playing with using it 100s of times allows it to go faster to the point where it becomes automatic. If not, then yeah, wouldn't be worth using every time. If so, ABSOLUTELY worth making that shift.
@jonnym1ller where?
update, tried diving in the pool this morning and some combo of confusion and diving too deep (I flipped over) meant that I stopped exhaling (enough) and got a bunch of water in my nose maybe should have warmed up before the dive? hmm
I subsequently did a couple of okay dives and short underwater swims but something seems spooked and I'm having trouble breathing consistently compared to yesterday more experimentation to come :)
@Human__Age hmm I mean I've mostly been blowing bubbles and swimming underwater in a small pool (tho deeper than I am tall)... feels largely well within my comfort zone; I've recovered from accidentally inhaling a little water way more times than I can count
@Human__Age maybe the lil dives are a bad idea when alone? I'm open to that possibility, and as fun as they are I could stick to just the swimming and do the dives when I'm at the restaurant that has a pool and a bunch of people around (tho still no official lifeguard afaik)
Thread · Words that are definitely words but my browser dictionary rejects · 2 of 219 tweets
"attentional" is a word
"atm" is a word
one random life tip: always have a physical skill you're working on it's much easier to see learning work when it's tangible motor output, vs subtle attentional skills dancing, juggling, poi, guitar. what's yours? atm for me its this 👇 (which is far from done!)
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"noonish" is a word
shame is defensiveness defensiveness is shame shame is not other than defensiveness defensiveness is not other than shame
an invitation: send a message of appreciation to someone for something that they recently did that is completely not a surprise but still worth appreciating like a sunrise 🌅
generalization is a place real situations hide
@schala163 😆 ...🥰
@RichDecibels is this a quote from somewhere? I feel like I've heard it before but can't find it elsewhere
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"selfhood" is a word
"slang is not evidence of a language in decline, but of a productive language whose lexicon can adapt to stay relevant"
@OshanJarow @drmichaellevin whoa, exciting. haven't listened to this yet but it's extremely up my alley scales of selfhood, planetary consciousness cc @Morphenius, @LordChisholm, @MaxCaspar_
My friend's company is hiring, and they're doing meaningful work with an interesting economic model for the company. I haven't worked for him but his temperament strikes me that he'd be a good mix of challenging & loving as a leader.
Huh, it occurs to me that the steward ownership model is vaguely adjacent to the thing @OshanJarow is talking about here. Maybe goes in a 4th quadrant of some 2×2... 🤔 cc @visakanv
one of my favorite high leverage moves, as a coach or a friend, is to give someone really fucking good domain-expert advice for a domain I don't know shit about via pointing out to them that they know someone who knows tons and nudging them to ask that person
@magicianbrain "interoception" is a word (for future reference)
hey look it's the heart sutra in comic form
@deevbrain yup, all sounds right to me
Retweeted @colluraj
My first time 'diffusing' video with time-stamped AI prompts in Google Collab. With the help of @EuclideanPlane who has been…
Retweeted @SarahAMcManus
You know what, I'm gonna come out with a strong stance: this is kink-shaming God I don't mean God in the Jehovah sense;…
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"ontologies" is a word
a reminder that full honesty is sometimes literally impossible (when frames/ontologies are sufficiently different that what you could say that would be most true for you would be more confusing to the other person than saying something that feels misleading to your own frame)
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"reframe" is a word
slightly more concretely, someone can ask you a yes-or-no question where the answer is "yes" in your frame but saying "yes" would cause them to be more confused about reality than saying "no" (ideally there's enough time and buy-in to pause and explain/reframe, but not always!)
@DanielJDrake in some sense it is always somewhat true except perhaps in *some* subset of situations when mathematicians are talking about math
if-by-whiskey is relevant here and I'm going to take this opportunity to link my all-time best thread:
there is no good reason why I can't embed a video in a google doc especially now that there's pageless mode, which gets rid of the skeuomorphism of printing
putting on Paramore and thinking of @visakanv even tho I used to listen to Brand New Eyes when it first came out too interesting how the associations get made
do unusual things until new things are unusually obvious to you then
starting to wonder if maybe instead of shi-nè I'd rather just do 10,000 prostrations
an Allowing approach to empty mind meditation: if I notice myself in a thought, see if I can inhabit that thought's perspective, then from there, die & allow the mind to be empty again (vs trying to set aside the thought from the outside)
Retweeted @m_ashcroft
Good news everyone! I'm really excited to share that I have a new column with writer collective Every called "Expanding Awa…
@jonnym1ller @m_ashcroft Of course! With your help ☺️
three-quarters of the way down this page, he compares lhatong (the 2nd naljor) to flow states of music, running, etc - "easy to attain, hard to remain" tagging @m_ashcroft for multiple reasons aroencyclopaedia.org/shared/text/n/…
@m_ashcroft cc @IAPCT, @warrenmansell, @EvadeHullu - article about PCT and Alexander Technique
my plot to get PCT into our local memepool is proceeding apace (which is to say slowly and steadily)
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"melatonin" is a word
when the melatonin kicks in
@shuturmurgh_ if it's got a feedback loop where you can watch yourself getting better, then absolutely!
@aleksil79 Yeah real-time games are physical skills, especially ones that involve paying attention to more than one factor in real-time.
@ladymcscope @nickcammarata @visakanv @metaphorician @metaLulie guessing it seems tiring when laid out in text but that in real-time it's flowy and natural and maybe not even 100% verbal
@bilalghalib @ashton_mae1 @christineist @CompliceGoals it doesn't have AI stuff, it just helps you access your own intelligence. which for quite awhile will be the best an AI can do anyway but yes, in a sense, it does this!
@PlaneHarvester I haven't been counting my freestyles. I've been freestyling on and off for about a decade, much more the last few years. I'm probably around 100 tho, maybe 200 or something but it depends on if you count 20s of half-assed riffing on a beat here or there
@mattgoldenberg precisely.
@daemonhugger @visakanv @ungatedcreative This is a great idea, I'll just... do another one. I am literally in Bali right now so I can hit the "living the dream" vibes pretty damn hard w/o even trying 😆 vid was dark because I wanted to get it out before bed, but it was taken next to the pool & palms outside my cabin 🌴
@RichDecibels fyeah dude, that's ace have I heard *you* say it before???
@aleksil79 yuppppp
@andrewglynch mmmm, reminds me of my You Flow Downhill concept malcolmocean.com/2016/06/you-fl…
@senguidev yeah I'm not totally sure but in many cases the basic mental motion can just take a few seconds if the conflict isn't too deep & friends have told me that it can basically become muscle memory / automatic
@nobu_hibiki mmmmmmm yeah that's a great song and I love that you're loving yourself with it :)
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"shoutout" is a word
"nother" is a whole nother word
@BlackForestBoi ❤️🔥🥰 Gotta give a shoutout to @DougTataryn, who was not only my teacher in this but also a role model for masculine tenderness. I had several in my family growing up, but he took it to a whole nother level.
@visakanv we're in the same timezone for the next couple weeks bruh
@visakanv tho I'm tryna go to bed early so actually we may be less sync'd than when I'm in pacific time
who here has been watching my youtube videos? what have you been digging? got a favorite? what would you like to see me talk about?
You know that thing that happens where a thing happens and then you want it to keep happening? I made a video about that, reflecting also on some of my own doubts and fears that I'm learning to listen to. youtu.be/UWAYWYR2NNg
this storefront in lisbon understands me
pov: u r a lil creature who lives under a log and I have just discovered you
@AskYatharth hi! yeah otherwise they wouldn't happen at all - this is only sort of an artistic choice :P ooooh yeah that's a great idea. @m_ashcroft and I have been meaning to record a convo while we're both here in Bali oh & I have this draft on the topic!
@meansinfinity My soundcloud is mostly random stuff: soundcloud.com/malcolmocean/ Some songs on my youtube, notably: youtube.com/watch?v=SaDvHT…
@relic_radiation seems likely! tho as a counterpoint I recently used an app to age a pic of myself and when I flip from old to young I suddenly look *impossibly* gorgeous by contrast. it's very striking and feels too instant to be culturally encoded (plus the pic is still a 30yo dude)
the thing with awayness-based motivation is that you can't ever get there because there's no there there well, actually there's just no there at all
it would be cool if there were a call medium that naturally afforded short calls, for those of us who haven't learned how to shut up a sketch: after eg 5 mins (or 2, or 15) the audio would fade out over 10s then you'd have another 20s to say nonverbal goodbyes then it closes
interesting take as a user, clearly the answer is to get better at owning one's desires
red tape is a kind of dysfunctional we-ness
named goals are like talismans and you can recharge them by imagining the outcome in vivid detail, and getting in touch with why you want it
I guess this is a remix of this earlier thread: naming goals is magic
someone with DALL-E, hook us up with "nerds get carried away by big brain argument"
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
You don't need to finish everything you set out to achieve. Really. It's fine to drop things. But if you haven't finish…
@khemaridh 2 who might become a 3 although my need for achievement is very meta-level, not so much "do all the stuff!!" as "very thoroughly and sincerely have a blast, experience flow together, do meaningful stuff"
The secret to quickly setting goals is to realize you've already got some goals so you might as well figure out what they are so you can approach them more directly. (latest complice thread!)
@houshuang true,,, but also... lazy web
@magicianbrain @meditationstuff oooh nice, yeah that's part of why I point at goals as being that-which-motivates-action (different use of the word tho I think, sounds like you/he are referring to explicit goals) if it's not plugged into intention, it's something else
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"idiolects" is a word
the activism is working liberate the idiolects! ("idiolects" is also a word)
Retweeted @DRMacIver
"People have been saying things are getting worse on this axis for years/centuries/etc" isn't actually the knock-down argume…
could just call it ShortCall and then when someone's like "shall we have a short call?" it would immediately remind you which app to use for this ppl often say "quick call" too, but QuickCall feels super meh as a name somehow
maybe could add a thing where each person also writes at the start what they intend to do afterwards, to give more momentum there rather than just "ahh I had more to say let me ping the person again"
@JohnStokvis these are great
@khemaridh Profoundly so. Check out this vision doc: malcolmocean.com/2022/05/100x-v…
@m_ashcroft here's my post on this: malcolmocean.com/2021/10/why-yo…
@strangestloop you're a flock of thermostats lower perceptions compose higher perceptions, from sense cells up to things to events to principles higher levels control lower levels, from principles down to programs to actions to motor output fighting conflicts is wasteful instead, go meta
@strangestloop idk if that's helpful, I'm generally not great at summarizing stuff, but I figured a tweet was a small enough ask that I could make it happen
@relic_radiation ahh maybe, but I don't per se look 30 in the 30yo pic after it's been contrasted with the older one. I look somehow WAY younger while still looking adult but arguably I just like THE THIRTIEST but in a young way like how looking at red then green makes THE GREENEST
Replying to @gas_bitch
@gas_bitch here for this if you've gotta do it we'll still love you!
Replying to @gas_bitch
@gas_bitch but in the meantime... twitter.com/gutterdaughter…
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"vid" is a word
"breathwork" is a word
Thread · Index of the 100 video project · 1 of 77 tweets
vid 41 - musings, swinging in a chair part of what inspired this vid was I'd just done a breathwork session and my voice was sounding kinda soft, and I wanted to share that
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"waxings" is a word "wanings" is a word
fascinating waxings and wanings of motivation/hopefulness tweeted third @CompliceGoals thread, it got little attention, I was like "gah this won't work" got a couple of retweets on tweets made as part of fourth thread, "this will totally work by the time I hit 100!"
btw, no need for thread-reader: I turned this thread into a blog post already! malcolmocean.com/2021/07/how-i-…
ha—new pitch for our GCI workshops: it's the best of both worlds! 😤 like a self-paced course, there's no wasting your time with BS—you choose what to focus on 😅 like a cohort-based course, there's one time for you to actually show up and do it complice.co/event/gci?tw=m…
also if you want to run an event like this yourself, I've written up a bit of a playbook for it here:
@RichDecibels @MVCoho @DirtyLoops @corywong haha what, this has a reply from a locked alt I am so curious what that is
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"timezones" is a word wtf
"wtf" is a word
@sc_sager you're right, the browser is wrong tell it where to stuff it
@azlenelza Yes, beautiful beautiful. Some of us played around with cozyroom a few years ago and we made an "exit" sign area that people would head over to to leave. Helped us notice someone thought they were being ignored but actually their mic was busted.
Want to get more clarity on: - what matters to you? - what you want your life to be like? - what you're trying to do in the world? - how to approach any of that? We've got the workshop for you! Learn more:
@AskYatharth Mmmmmm this is really good! ...aside from how it strongly reifies a transactional "for you" vs "for them" model of interactions (plus separate doers). Ideally you're cocreating something that is FOR both of you! Which the chart implies doesn't exist.
@AskYatharth QC's OG thread about participation & consent is relevant here too:
@daemonhugger @visakanv @ungatedcreative Boom! Thanks so much for the feedback. The numbers you asked for are actually kind of epic. Did like a dozen takes of the new version, only the last 2 actually in the water.
why, for what purpose would one employ brevity in speech, favoring a diminished quantity of few words, when instead one could use vast mountains of many words, in order for one's utterances to do the trick?
@ungatedcreative @daemonhugger @visakanv 💪❤️🔥🥰 this isn't even my final form!
what if it were goblins tho
@McLaughlinGord @CXGonzalez nah this is the strangely earnest corner of twitter, where that mysteriously doesn't happen
@CXGonzalez I've gotten bored of hating them and instead I just ask for a paper menu and get a paper menu and it's way better.
@CXGonzalez And my friends are like "wait you can just do that?" and I'm like "yeah"
Replying to @realtimeai
@realtimeai @m_ashcroft Yo legit! I would say the framing & staging is somewhat contrived, & I also rehearsed what I was gonna say 10×, but I am the sort of dude to spontaneously jump into a pool then rant at you 😜 (context: this was my rework of suggestions by @daemonhugger)
@houshuang moreover, this makes it an inherently social riffing process, rather than a solo process I put out the idea, someone remixes it (by picking exactly how to prompt the AI, etc)
I get so fucking curious when there's a QT of one of my tweets, from a locked account making the QT count visible was a 💯 idea but it really could use a filter (replies too but QTs esp)
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa yup. and it'll be very cool to watch the book itself evolve over time too might be cool to keep the older versions available somehow related
@ungatedcreative @m_ashcroft I shared a few tidbits here (holy reflective cover batman)
@dkazand really great comic on this that koan'd me pretty hard a few years ago existentialcomics.com/comic/13
@realtimeai @m_ashcroft @daemonhugger Maybe what Mashy meant was more like "representative" than "authentic". Which in some ways the best that one can aim for with a ~scripted video. Whereas this earlier iteration was more raw & authentic, but would give less of a taste of Malcolmness.
@ungatedcreative Writing your own seems like a great way to reduce the sense of there being one single "this part of twitter". Introduce your friends to the part of twitter around *you*, not to some reified notion of a named community
Retweeted @m_ashcroft
and we’re off to a strong start
@RomeoStevens76 hmm that doesn't QT very well. it's "then say the obvious"
@xsphi probably tensing my butt cheeks really tightly, a few hours ago I just did it again right now and it's still rly good
@xsphi tho actually also hm no, making this video was really satisfying in a less acute way. I got really stoked as my takes and phrasings got better and better
Replying to @coponder
@coponder @LordChisholm scramjet
@coponder yessssssssssss here for this
I'm doing some writing here for the next couple hours. Come do pomodoros with me 🤩 complice.co/room/general
the five wisdom emoji of vajrayana buddhism 😤😡🤑😒🤪
striking how writing longer stuff vs shorter stuff has such nonlinear scaling effects I'm working on a 4k word (& far from finished) piece I started last week and it's taken me an hour to get to writing full new coherent paragraphs, because I had to re-read / edit / get oriented
I am uhh definitely not the first person to observe this, but I figured I would share with the world that I am observing it also. Now you know. This is what the world looks like from my vantage point right now.
the bad news is I'm not sure how to get laundry done in bali 😬 the good news is I'm wearing so little in the way of clothes that I may just not need to 😅
hmmm I noticed I often link to @xuenay's UtEB summary post when I want to explain why counteractive behavior change strategies are counter-productive, but it actually just barely touches on this @mattgoldenberg, other suggestions for articles to cite? lesswrong.com/posts/i9xyZBS3…
Replying to @pinkopog
@pinkopog @visakanv the tables of contents and stuff are separate pages, which you want to make sure are showing up correctly and they actually support basically full CSS
@visakanv idk but I would love to get Introspect as an epub!
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"dimorphism" is a word
@Caroline30 Most of what feels present for me is not really about gender but about sex, like dimorphism. I love inhabiting my male body, in basically all ways, and I love how it all makes sense with itself. I miss out on living in a female body, in all of its ecstasies and discomforts.
@Caroline30 This sorta feels like a cheating answer, because it's not "one thing" but it was my embodied felt sense answer, and to try to name a specific body part or physiological function (although I could!) would have not been the same. It's a holistic thing.
wow I'm loving the "take a break" button on the complice now page right now feeling groovy ♫
@coponder why use few word when more do trick
@coponder in all seriousness tho um basically it's that a bunch of people's agency has gotten bound up in some sort of collective, limiting the capacity for autonomous action
@AandrewDunn life is a play life is a story life is a game life is a canvas life is a process life is a product life is a constant battle life is a kind of universe life is a system-level phenomenon life is a series of crossover episodes life is a meeting that could have been an email
Retweeted @Malcolm_Ocean
@AandrewDunn life is a play life is a story life is a game life is a canvas life is a process life is a product life is…
@AandrewDunn (using this filter:follows search, which will give you different results because you follow different people! some of them were "my life", and I did a bit of filtering twitter.com/search?q=%22li…)
Retweeted @CompliceGoals
If you don't have a good idea what to do next towards some goal, that actually means there's an obvious thing to do: fig…
@_e__r__i__c_ well, depending on what one means by meta, one such thing would be the iocaine powder fallacy malcolmocean.com/2015/05/meta-i…
"get a life" 🙄
@luispedrocoelho @CXGonzalez usually they do, in my experience and if they don't 🤷♀️
weird that in business & product development we use the phrase "roadmap" to refer to something more like a planned route when an actual roadmap is more like a possibility field with no intentions or directions whatsoever
main unpublished writings, in rough chrono order: - “H3” &“NNTD” as specific protocols & meta-protocols - Mindset choice revisited: expanding awareness - How we get there - [org] strategic plan - Wtf is the deal with the synergic mode? total ~45k words
ah actually there are a few thousand words of subsection of these that have been turned into blog posts, but in terms of the total wordcount, there are a dozen shorter pieces that would make that much longer anyway
@mattgoldenberg Kudos for having the courage to not go along with a commitment that didn't feel right for you!
I'm sorry what the actual fuck
listening is a kind of talking
Have you got anything in your shadow that you remember putting there? eg for me, self-hatred, around age 13
Replying to @ThanksThoth
@ThanksThoth Yeah depending on what you're wearing, as a dude it's possible to do the whole thing without touching anything but your clothes (and maybe the toilet). Toilet kinda gnarly tho, that's what does it for me.
@phantom_opus A lot of it has been written up already! See many NNTD posts here. There are other angles but in some sense several of these posts say the whole thing! malcolmocean.com/archives
@RomeoStevens76 Yes 🤣🤣
@the_wilderless Basically you decided you weren't ever gonna feel something
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because the thing about language is there are no "common mistakes": Those aren't mistakes any more. They're just how English wor…
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It's like arguing that Usain Bolt can't run the 100 meters in 9.58 seconds, because my 1990 book of world records clearly states…
@DRMacIver Yes! Correct! In Portugal I experienced both the worst and best microwave UIs. I can't even remember how the bad one worked but @UntilTrees was in stitches from my rant about it as I figured it out. Best—analog knobs?!?
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The best words we have for working on whatever you want seem to be “funemployment” and “mini-retirement”which are terrible since t…
@DRMacIver The problem with those isn't that zero thought was put into the UX. The problem is that a lot of very stupid thought was put into the UX. Zero thought is required: copy the classic knob. Done.
@morphillogical @diviacaroline Integral or spiral dynamics stages, presumably
@SeanMombo This is the way
a friend of mine said that christopher nolan's films had flat characters, but I said that was because she was thinking of the humans as the characters *reality* is the main character of christopher nolan's films
do you have any idea how many details I'm sparing you right now? no? good.
I'm having a chill couple hours of writing, listening to an old fav DJ set by Tycho. I'd really enjoy some company if you'd like to cowork with me (doesn't have to be writing) complice.co/room/writing
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@JacketTanks @ghoulymaps Laws should be made so that media without legal means of consuming become public access.
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I enjoy these Goal Crafting Workshops. They're really helpful at going high level on your long-term vision down to short-ter…
wow just realized I'd been completely ignoring my youtube comments except when I happened to notice them on recent videos but there's a whole UI for seeing all comments and easily replying, so that's awesome. I'll get on that
@realtimeai @m_ashcroft @daemonhugger I disagree! it was actually quite useful—got me thinking about what "authentic" means. (tweet was like "this isn't authentic anything. even if you were born in a house with a scenic pool, there's still something artificial about how the pool is centered in the frame")
@daemonhugger @realtimeai @m_ashcroft I deleted 10/13 rehearsals for storage space reasons but I kept a few, vaguely thinking I might share them, actually! I'm down to explore that, tho I've gotta sleep first for sure.
@kh_author @ungatedcreative I'm only here for August, but yeah it's quite a scene!
@prerationalist the sandman gods?
Replying to @explorergooey
@explorergooey "so that the entire reel can resonate." Can you say what you mean by this?
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i've gone to two of malcolm's goal crafting intensives, and always come away with tons of clarity and a solid plan
doing more writing today, come work:
such a satisfying feeling when the pomodoro work start bell goes off and I can just completely close the window that has twitter open, knowing it's right there for me when I come back
of course, in order to feel safe doing this you also need this userscript so that you don't have to worry about accidentally losing a thread being drafted
@TylerAlterman makes sense sub-100 books, above that you want more thematic sections
the dao that can be spoken is not the true dao but sometimes the true dao can be sung
@hashbrown490 How does this work with multiplayer? It occurred to me that certain extensions might be safe and appropriate to have enabled by default for all users of a graph, and that would be a powerful improvement over roam/js. Looks like no tho, based on a quick test with "Show favicon"
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@djinnius @visakanv @AskYatharth @strangestloop @gptbrooke I vaguely recall this language being used in the bay area rationality scene, but maybe not earlier than 2017 so it might have also been downstream of venkat
@eshear ahhhhhhhhhhh yeah welp, language be like that might be time to shift to using "tao" for the other thing
@camron @the_wilderless it sorta feels itself under the surface, but doesn't quite activate the usual stuff that would be described as "feeling the thing" one can seem and experience oneself as very happy, while repressing feels of sadness or pain "feeling" is maybe kind of an overloaded term here
@prerationalist aha! yes, exactly!
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@explorergooey fascinating you think it resonates with dark knight rises, which I haven't seen I was mostly thinking about the more obvious cases of inception and tenet
@saura3h whoa, say more? what was the process like of that untangling?
@m_ashcroft @plasmabitcoin yeah and it seems very much the opposite philosophy, like Synergetics has some stuff on coaching and it's very "just ask gentle questions, not too often, let the person be the guide of their own process"
@gnrtvty so I left some boxers in the sun for a day and they ended up kinda sunbleached. fortunately it made a cool pattern on them so the value has been improved, but I'm not inclined to do that with my other clothes that already have existing patterns etc
@raluca_hippie ain't ain't two
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kind of like a workshop but more collaborative- "what do we all want/need to make today" energy
Replying to @pinkopog
@pinkopog @visakanv sorry, "full CSS" was a bit much. but colors, fonts, borders, margins, paddings, tables, etc etc. CSS2 ish
@huggingpuppy @loopholekid super here for this stuff one place to start might be a complice coworking room that has these vibes a bit or something fluidly moving between collective agency and solo agency
@xuenay @mattgoldenberg @DaystarEld I feel like my take is something like "sure, try counteractive once, but if it fails, don't keep forcing it" (also totally fine to use willpower when lifting weights, as long as you can tell apart resistance from "injury imminent" signals) is there something I'm missing here?
the existence of confusion implies the existence of confission
@AskYatharth I don't think I've had it as bad as some people, and I've also been working on it for longer than most (since 2012) and I have the sense there are still deeper layers for me my major relationship-ending this year was actually a pretty key piece; think I'm on the home stretch now
@AskYatharth but I guess one sense I have is that in some sense the journey isn't fully complete until every moment is effortless wu wei the self-coercion journey can take you all the way to that, if you want
going to the root of something is always a radical move
The Liquid Super Teams concept here is very resonant with a bunch of my thinking about the "self-energizing meta-team". (link goes to halfway down the article) ift.tt/QHgrVYZ
@saura3h ♥️
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa just got even more excited to meet you in person :)
selfishness is underrated it requires no justification which makes it less obfuscate-y
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@Johnicholas fascinating! I can see how someone could get that impression from it (like I'm not literally like "did we read the same link?") but it reads to me like a very sincere and excited view of an evolutionary attractor in teamwork space
someone who knows NVC better than me, how would you reframe "you're lying", either as the speaker or as the listener? (I'm asking not because of a real situation, but as a blogpost case study)
Replying to @Johnicholas
@Johnicholas oh really? I feel like that suggests a way broader version of the word "scam" than I would use, eg even if those concepts are all fucked, the person could simply be naive, not out to deceive others anyway, 1: totally possible 2: weird frame but yeah I don't promote scams
@Johnicholas I am in general aware of the ongoing cycle where people doing real stuff to jump to new terms when old ones get coopted/corrupted/confused/etc (this is happening with "game b" and "tpot" to some degree) but web*, da*, etc, have had haters from the beginning; seems different
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@Johnicholas short term loss for this travel, but it's a small blip I make money from having developed innovative software that solves my problem and others'—not pyramidal (tho someone's gotta grow corn) climate / air travel... what about it? degrowth is a joke
@chenchenLiu11 just saw this—thanks for sharing yeah... I'm still learning how to gauge whether others will be intimidated by me and how to respond when people are (which seems like a thing that will happen more if I lean into this)
Replying to @Johnicholas
@Johnicholas I definitely didn't say I've resolved all my conflicts haha. if you read my tweets I am regularly pretty fucking humble about this eg here's me proud of resolving a pretty basic & trivial inner conflict that in a sane society no adult would struggle with
@Johnicholas anyway, as far as motte/bailey goes, I can kinda see what you're pointing at, but also... I said what I said! ...and I didn't say clarifying goals and resolving goal conflicts was simple or easy! if it were, it would be absurd to reduce all productivity problems to it.
time of year when I start getting burning man pics in my google photos "on this day"
..........I want one of these but they're like $2500. twitter.com/tylerwatamanuk…
found a DIY video but I'm skeptical it'd be as good youtube.com/watch?v=M5KcvZ…
okay, so the easy version, which many people have adopted, assumes the lie is about something that the other person observed firsthand try the hard one: a situation where something is sus and the pieces don't add up, but there's no direct contradiction to it
@xuenay @mattgoldenberg @DaystarEld oh really?! I don't remember that part. do you remember where in the book it is or a term to search for?
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"reconsolidation" is a word
"mmm" is a word
@xuenay @mattgoldenberg @DaystarEld mmm, no, skill-building is training but not counteractive in the emotional coherence sense unless you've got emotionally strong memories that you're fighting against, and if you do (eg traumatic memories of an accident) then probably you do actually want to use reconsolidation!
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"counteractiveness" is a word
@xuenay @mattgoldenberg @DaystarEld my read is that concentration meditation, at least as practiced by many people even IF it eventually works often causes substantial technical debt due to the counteractiveness of it this view largely cribbed from @meditationstuff, who can weigh in (somewhat from dzogchen too)
@thinkagainer ah nice, thanks, this helps these are both great examples of someone lying due to it not feeling safe to tell the truth, and handling that by shifting away from the lie towards the safety my loose framework: 3 kinds of lying: - fear of punishment - pathological - sociopathic
@relic_radiation @ElodesNL @Jeanvaljean689 > Singing was huge in that, & ‘battle trance’ is the least of it how do you know? I'm not talking about that "indigenous people lived in wildly different states of consciousness", which seems very self-evident. how do you know that singing pre-dates superorganisming?
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"repurpose" is a word (huh, my dictionary already had "repurposed")
@relic_radiation @ElodesNL @Jeanvaljean689 note that any documented behaviors of any indigenous people throughout history are WAY AFTER the supposed evolutionary event that the article was talking about, so are not evidence about how/why singing FIRST appeared. obviously any culture would repurpose it for other magic!!
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"superorganism" is a word
@relic_radiation @ElodesNL @Jeanvaljean689 I share your aesthetic sense of the non-battle-related beauty of music, and how it can connect us with the world! and I suspect these are related. music lives in the right hemisphere, which connects with what's larger, whether that's our immediate human superorganism or gaia
@nibrasibn @_brentbaum thank his parents too and his grandparents and his childhood friends and everyone who ever mentored him and all of his other relationships—small and large, present and past—that made him who he is today
do you ever try to paint nice shapes with line lengths? or is that just me?
@AskYatharth or it's short for someone else wanting you to do x important to deconfuse your self-other boundary
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"deconfuse" is a word
@relic_radiation yuppppppp noticing that "something feels off" sensation is so key
@relic_radiation oh actually even more directly relevant is this video youtube.com/watch?v=Wl3N0t…
@RichDecibels this thread is helpful, thanks! I may have a bit of the confusion you're describing here, although I'm also more oriented towards being able to build trust and adjust on the fly than trying to have consensus before beginning
brb just reupholstering my ontologies
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Healing from trauma amounts to learning that it is okay to 🤯 know what you know 😭 feel what you feel 😍 love what you lov…
watch out, we got ourselves a bodhisattva over here
did improv comedy games/scenes tonight for the first time in 4 years and I was way better I think mostly just like, I'm more grounded and attentive than I was then, so less need to try/do/be-clever
Simplest way to describe Bali (the region I'm in at least) is burning man but year round (& humid instead of dry) (& scooters instead of bikes) (& $ instead of gift economy)
oh fuckyeah, The Matter With Things has detailed references to Buddhism, emptiness, etc TMAHE (McGilchrist's original hemisphere book) had just one footnote. glad someone pointed out the deep relevance!
@DRMacIver Yup! I've tried 2 things to fix that for Complice: 1. it doesn't force you to check in every day—you can keep a streak alive by going back later and saying what you did that day. 2. it also tracks a chillstreak: don't miss 2 days in a row
@DRMacIver These fixes work pretty well in my experience, though to some extent they trade off against each other, since you can convert the chillstreak into a full streak anyway by back-filling the missing days.
@DRMacIver But like at this point I have a 1000+ day streak of days where I know what I did that day, and so it's just obviously worth going back and filling in a missing few days if I was offline or scattered for a bit.
@kenakennedy yeah I mean it's really not like burning man but the vibe of this cafe's architexture (& floor cushions)... or this restaurant's entrance (& live music jam) are things I haven't seen much of elsewhere
@nickredmark @MattPirkowski I initially loved that chart but then I realized it's painfully transactional.
@nobuhojimichaan nice, I like this as an approach and as an articulation of such an approach!
@tasshinfogleman it's time for @tasshinfogleman to make a plan to avoid SAD again :)
@nobuhojimichaan > any speaking or singing of it I'm not saying "singing *of* it", I'm saying "singing it". It is the song, the sound, the mouth, the ears, the rhythms, the words, in each eternal moment. And in this sense (and perhaps this sense only 😆) Leonard Cohen sang.
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@innerstitial bahaha yeah, super large svg images
@mattgoldenberg @xuenay @DaystarEld "environmental change" doesn't seem to me to fall under counteractive nor transformational, but is a third category altogether assuming you mean ~"changing the environment so that with zero additional effort you now do different stuff" malcolmocean.com/2016/06/you-fl…
@mattgoldenberg @xuenay @DaystarEld fascinating I want to concede that in some sense Matt/Trinley is clearly operating at a level beyond mine with this stuff while also maintaining that there's some sense in which most people need a figure-ground inversion to stop constantly fighting themselves
@mattgoldenberg @xuenay @DaystarEld PCT is another lens on this; self-coercion, attempts to "control behavior" rather than "hold an intention and allow a solution to emerge through reorganization and conflict resolution"
realized that I've been getting very little sun here in Bali because I don't like tan lines and haven't had a convenient place to be naked 🤣
I'm really curious what someone with hemispatial neglect would do if put in front of a true mirror (2 mirrors at 90°, that show a non-flipped image) one's left side would now be visible on the right
Great introduction to Perceptual Control Theory by @m_ashcroft, exploring the importance of knowing where you are, knowing where you're going, and resolving conflicts that arise. every.to/expanding-awar…
He suggests that the way to resolve conflicts is by "deciding", and while this is sometimes true, a gentler and more robust approach is to direct your attention to the reality of the conflict on one level and to the levels above the conflict that are generating it, then wait.
Your mind is already totally capable of resolving many many kinds of conflicts, provided that it is given enough space & time & attention to do so. This also requires allowing the conflict to exist in the first place, rather than desperately clinging to fixing it.
Doing some pomodoros of writing! Come write with me 😎 complice.co/room/writing
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"cromulent" is a word 😉
"interpersonally" is a word
one of the things I'm realizing with this thread is that it's embarrassing that in 2022 our spellchecks can't recognize that if I stick "-ly" on the end of a perfectly cromulent adjective, then whatever I get shouldn't have a red squiggle! dynamic programmatic spellcheck when
write 100 summaries/pitches/proposals
we've got 3 people in the room now! come join us 🚀 (you don't have to be writing, you can work on whatever you want)
People keep challenging me to summarize my work (not Complice, my illegible meta work related to trust and collaboration) There are so many ways to approach it that I never know where to start. Then I figured I'd turn that into an advantage and just come at it from all angles!
@nickredmark @jonnym1ller what's up with Bali?
@meekaale @DRMacIver mmm yeah Complice is fairly good at just starting fresh I think when you first come back, and then later it mentions "hey, wanna fill in your streak?" if there's only a few days to fill and otherwise doesn't mention it at all
@nobuhojimichaan ah okay. yeah another way to point at my thing is a left hemisphere / right hemisphere thing. RH is the one that does the dao, and also singing; LH does speech I thiiink I get what you're saying, it just doesn't seem as fun :P
@OshanJarow @drmichaellevin @Morphenius @LordChisholm @MaxCaspar_ tagging some PCT folks re this podcast too, as I think you'll appreciate the directness with which they shoot down mainstream approaches to biology as having "teleophobia", which makes no sense now that we have cybernetics 😆 allies! @EvadeHullu @IAPCT @warrenmansell
@nickredmark yeah, both/and very good point about it being a juicy kind of transactionality
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"transactionality" is a word
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa ahhh, paraphilia
@alt_visa wait, no, that's a different thing. fuck, what's the word I'm looking for? xD
@alt_visa parasocial! parasociality.
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Guys will go found their own company rather than go through six rounds of interviews
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I sometimes feel uneasy with ambiguous social cuddling. In a Coherence Coaching training session today, I got: "Some par…
I miss my guitar
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"interestingness" is a word
@tasshinfogleman the universe was boring for awhile and then it accidentally figured out how to be interesting and the interesting stuff figured out how to be even more interesting until it turned into us—those who are interested in asking and answering "why" questions
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@tasshinfogleman the universe was boring for awhile and then it accidentally figured out how to be interesting and the…
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How do small selves integrate into collective intelligences? In my latest podcast w/ @drmichaellevin: - Goals as the univ…
@JakeOrthwein Have you read Vervaeke's relevance realization paper yet? you'll love it
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"bodymind" is a word
good thread I want to feel feelings appropriate to the situation, and sometimes that's gonna be eg grief or fear or anger I prefer not to stub my toe, but when I do, I embrace the pain with a satisfying "FUCK!"
but okay, stubbing one's toe is different from overwhelming or debilitating pain but... there I think the issue is: - overwhelm (bodymind can't metabolize, can't emotionally manage, causes layering) - debilitation (can't live the life you want if getting out of bed hurts)
also my sense of what feeling fits the situation is going to hinge on what past situations I'm relating it to, and maybe I could come to realize that feeling <panic> is much less relevant/appropriate now than it was when I was an infant
(go read the original thread, he says it better)
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@gas_bitch take your time ♥
@AskYatharth oooooh huh I think I often want to feel sexy, but I *also* spent a long time sorta feeling like I always wanted to have sex, so this didn't help me disambiguate
@JakeOrthwein @utotranslucence @TylerAlterman @nosilverv I feel like maybe Mary Midgley would be relevant here too, tho I haven't read her stuff yet!
@JakeOrthwein I wanted to find the original, so I looked it up, and at 1m25 he lets go of the wheel for a second to grab something with his other hand 😮😱🤯 youtube.com/watch?v=gAKekh…
I'm coming to love doing nothing 🥰 what unlocked it for me was this realization: *having* to not do stuff sucks *getting* to not do stuff is awesome
@s0ulDirect0r I'm not sure if either of these pics needs anything else to be a sorcerer, but I'm stoked to see what you'll do with me
@s0ulDirect0r @Morphenius Wow yeah this is amazing. Looks more like him than the original.
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"I've heard this argument 100 times" OK sure but then why do you not seem to have meaningfully incorporated the argument int…
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"Minds are basically computers" is wrong if you think of computers as abstract turing machines but spot on if you think of c…
@DRMacIver topnotch subtweet
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@ElodesM I was playing around with AT stuff with @m_ashcroft yesterday and it took me from being already very good at this to being even better so idk, might also help you get from 0 to 1
@diviacaroline @s_r_constantin I love both “materialist epistemology industrial complex” and “refuctionistic”
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"olympic" is a word (doesn't need to be capitalized; here's the wikipedia article on olympic weightlifting)
anatta is when you see there's no (fixed, permanent) self natta is the ordinary condition of clinging to a sense of self supernatta is when you take clinging-to-self as an olympic sport
Thread · Six years of makeshift standing desks · 3 of 15 tweets
iteration 1 of a standing desk when I was staying at @LordChisholm's last summer (dunno why I didn't post it at the time) (I didn't use the milk crates, they were an older idea but wrong size & ugly)
unfortunately I don't seem to have gotten a pic of the final version of my actual attempt at a permanent standing desk, from when I moved out this spring, but here's iteration 1 from last fall the media stand / shelf in back was perfect
left: standing desk made of boxes in a hotel room in Berlin right: better standing desk in my cabin here in Bali (I'm at this one as I type)
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"fractally" is a word
@utotranslucence everyone at all fractal scales which is like group+othergroups but orienting fractally allows diversity & makes it more computationally tractable it sometimes still takes a long time but what gave you the idea that defining "good" should be a quick problem to solve?
@JimmyRis share pics as you work on it!
@visakanv @AskYatharth yup, I read that, and in my case I did basically mean "dress and walk in a way that exudes erotic energy" which is usually femme- or gay-coded let's not pretend that the hot weather was the only reason my shirt was off in this video
@diviacaroline @s_r_constantin I know but it was a good error
@AndyAyrey I'm down in Uluwatu! Come hang with me & @m_ashcroft if you're in the area. I haven't checked out Ubud or Canggu, but my impression is it's chiller and maybe greener here.
@_brentbaum Canada has absurdly cheap guitar rentals (and many other instruments) from nationwide chain Long & McQuade, but afaict other countries & cities just don't have this and it's very sad absurdly cheap = starting at $3/day or $10/mo!
@gptbrooke @ricvolpe @christineist @thesfcommons it is tho I'm not gonna be in SF in sept
@gptbrooke @ricvolpe @christineist @thesfcommons plug in with the Alembic folks tho @kathryndevaney
Retweeted @babiejenks
Go home simulation, you're drunk.
@relic_radiation I am into what you're talking about here, tho I sorta chafe at calling it "animism" since isms are usually associated with belief systems. > Animism isn't an abstract belief. It's not an idea. It's something you experience.
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@QiaochuYuan oh yeah women love being flirted with . . . when they want to be flirted with . . . by you the trick is mo…
@JakeOrthwein @AnnaLeptikon haha love the "dude, of course"—sorry I doubted you 😆 (I'm still figuring out what your deal is, tbh! and this is helping a bunch)
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@BecomingCritter "free will" is a bit of a silly enlightenment philosophy concept. It makes sense to talk about making…
@aphercotropist @BecomingCritter
I've seen a path. The path is not clear—it is, in some sense, entirely made of obstacles—but as Marcus Aurelius put it: the obstacle is the way.
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Complice is incredible. I don’t even open it every day yet. Just knowing that I’ve written it down what kind of person…
@made_in_cosmos @CompliceGoals wow, fascinating! I feel like I kind of understand why that would be, but I'd love to hear you spell it out more something like, it takes a certain minimum upkeep for you to have the capacity to be intentional?
it makes more sense in context
@itinerantfog 🙏❤️🔥
at this point I basically only use willpower when lifting weights, where afaict I'm pushing against a basic "conserve energy to survive" drive not anything more meaningful (somehow I can tell the difference between that & "I'm gonna hurt myself" or "something feels off/bad")
even there, make a point of not negating the little voices that say "I can't lift it again" I just embody "yeah totally, I know I can't, I'm just gonna... lift it anyway" I don't argue, I just... do it!
and if I notice that my motivation for lifting becomes coercive (eg "if I don't beat my previous record I'm a failure") then I see if I can let go of that and find other less tangled motivation for lifting
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If we want the rewards of human connection we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of other people's bullshit https…
@acesounderglass I'd add Bill Powers for Perceptual Control Theory which is a cybernetic paradigm shift to psychology that's still in the process of overturning linear/behaviorist models
Retweeted @RichDecibels
a group is ruled by the conversations it can't have
@RichDecibels adding this to my [[collective blindspots]] notes for future remixing
@PlaneHarvester in the meantime,
@PlaneHarvester yeah, this sort of thing can totally be an iterative process more important that you keep exploring it and finding out what it wants to be than that you get it perfectly right on any particular occasion
the fact that chemistry reduces to physics is intricately related to the fact that both apply everywhere in the universe. biology does not (exception proving rule: geometric necessities like cube-square laws & lung/tree space-filling fractals)
@Meaningness So far I'm a few chapters in and it's been pretty dry, though with a few interesting clarifications. His basic take is "this stuff had to be secret for a long time to keep things safe, but now it's safer to have more transparency to help people avoid abuses" which is interesting!
@Meaningness There'll be almost nothing new in Chapter 2, since based on what I've seen you write, you could have written most of it. It has an amusing energy tho— ~"if you're gonna have sex as a dzogchen practitioner, what are you gonna do, leave your rigpa outside the bedroom door?"
@Meaningness So you might just want to start at ch3 tbh. I haven't gotten far enough into that section to have much of a take on it yet.
Thread · Brave New World, memetics, and why we need protopian fiction
Just read Huxley's Brave New World, all in one sitting. Nothing in particular on my mind to say but figured if I wrote a thread and said the obvious, it would be interesting to someone. The main thing that struck me was "damn, he wrote this in 1932?"
In some ways, Brave New World is a deutschian dystopia, which is to say a world in which technological advancement is consciously used in service of propagating anti-rational memes and perpetuating a static society (David Deutsch's terms)
While aspects of the dystopia are disturbingly familiar, and I agree with Huxley that sedating/enculturating the masses is more likely than subduing with violence (which he wrote in a 1949 letter to Orwell re 1984) ...I don't find Brave New World to be a likely attractor.
I think Huxley, at least at the time, didn't understand evolution and memetics well enough (no fault to him—the concept of memetics hadn't been invented/discovered yet!) and was thus overestimating the workability of top-down statically-controlled culture.
It makes sense though: modern man writes modern dystopia.
The improbability of this dystopia is oddly encouraging. When I imagine infants being raised in the ultra-sterile atomistic procedural conditioned ways they are in BNW, they all come out stunted with attachment disorders, no rationalistic intellectuals nor obedient servants.
It makes me wonder what a more contemporary extrapolated-future dystopia would look like. I'm recalling Circle by Eggers, but it's still too near-future. Is shit too weird now to imagine such an extremely distant future? Maybe. On the gripping hand...
So I'm also ultimately more interested in sincere eutopian or protopian visions like Huxley's later book Island. As incomplete they'll inevitably be, they plant seeds of a future worth moving towards.
It occurs to me that some of these could also be based on extrapolation of current technology! Someone write a novel in which the protagonists are succeeding at deploying therapeutic reconsolidation at scale and successfully dealing with opposition or challenges.
Someone write a novel in which a new form of blockchain-based governance is put to the test and needs to evolve in order to keep up. Someone write a novel in which automation has freed us from doing jobs we don't like, and somehow we still find meaningful stuff to do.
For more, search twitter for "white mirror" or "black mirror" and if you follow cool people like @speakerjohnash, @TylerAlterman, @PlayNiceInst, @Altimor you'll get various threads of suggestions twitter.com/search?q=black…
In retrospect I guess I came to disagree with my own initial conclusion—of COURSE it was written in the 1930s! Later on it would have seemed closer but perhaps less plausible. Certainly by now nobody could write it.
@timheiler we know that all of chemistry would be true on other planets this is not true for biology the interaction of water and potassium is the same the universe round the meaning of "serotonin" as a molecule, well, is only vaguely coherent between different organisms
@TheOceanWithAnO chemistry begets biology but what I'm saying is that biology can't be reduced to chemistry because biology contains the path-dependent particulars of LIFE ON EARTH
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"superorganisms" is a word
"tbh" is a word
"natured" is a word (in the context of "good-natured", "natured" got underlined)
for fuck's sake, if I add a word to my dictionary, then a version of that same word WITH THE FIRST LETTER CAPITALIZED IS ALSO A FUCKING WORD
A convo with @Morphenius reflecting on our experience of listening to @OshanJarow & @drmichaellevin, and how it relates to our explorations of the role of memetics & culture in forming human superorganisms. Long but check out first 30min for a juicy taste youtu.be/2cBaiNZdVVQ
Here's a tweet about the original podcast episode that we're riffing on and critiquing:
I'm not super satisfied with how the convo turned out, tbh. My sense is that @Morphenius & I got into a bit more of an argument than was useful, and while it was good-natured, the whole premise of our work is that deeper understanding comes from parallax
We're intending to have more conversations about some of this stuff, to see if we can find that deeper view. There's a decent chance those conversations will also be recorded & posted, and may form a beautiful case study of live parallax synthesis. ...uhh no pressure 😅
@meaning_enjoyer true, conditional on you being able to identify thirst as thirst and not accidentally interpret it as hunger or boredom or something else
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"extraverted" is a word (some people claim this is the correct spelling; I'm not here to claim it's more correct than "extroverted" but it's an option. there's also extrꜵverted if you want a third more complex thing)
neither either/or nor both/and but a third more complex thing
neither introverted nor extraverted but a third more complex thing
neither loneliness nor solitude but a third more complex thing
@QiaochuYuan Oooh, wasn't where I expected this to go, and I really like it.
Thread · Index of the 100 video project · 3 of 77 tweets
vid 42 - pitch, marketing based on some feedback, I made another version of my video about the Goal-Crafting Intensives better staging and better articulation!
vid 43 - live presentation some speculations and Q&A about how collective consciousness works
vid 44 - conversation, response a friend and I found a podcast very relevant to stuff we've been talking about a bunch and decided to record a response to it
@_zinniaa__ you might like the book Somebodies And Nobodies which says that racism, sexism, etc, are all missing the actual issue which is the idea that it's *ever* appropriate to use one's rank or power (of any kind) to deny dignity to other people w/o this idea, we feel like rank is bad
Replying to @selentelechia
@selentelechia @SarahAMcManus this list of skills reminded me of your HowToHuman roam even identifying these as skills worth developing is a huge step
neither regretting my mistakes nor denying they were mistakes but a third more complex thing
@TylerAlterman win-win / omniwin "enlightened selfishness" or "loving selfishness" synergy, maybe
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Is there a word for "doing something that's good for someone else which is simultaneously good for you?" i.e., altruism…
@nvpkp that's a third *simpler* thing 😜
neither more complex nor less complex but a third orthogonal thing
Thread · Diligence, regret, and making more interesting mistakes
I've thought about regret a lot over the years & I think there's a real difference betw when you learn a lot vs getting an old lesson again at great cost eg if you sleep in & miss a workshop, that may teach you a lesson about alarm clocks... that is less useful than the workshop
it's worth cultivating diligence to avoid making small mistakes that keep you from making more interesting mistakes but also, if you somehow fail to do this, there may be a deeper learning to be found there
for example, maybe you have the opportunity to pitch someone your idea, and if it lands it could change your life if you don't prepare, you'll learn the lesson "better prepare", but you won't find out if a well-prepared pitch could have worked
and maybe the deeper lesson here is you were actually scared of finding that out! either because you're scared of the life-change or scared of what it would mean if your idea got rejected despite a good pitch, vs being able to say "well he just didn't like my pitch"
in Larson's autobiographical musical Tick... Tick... BOOM! he finally does an amazing workshop of the musical he's been working on for 6yr. lots of people love it but it doesn't get picked up for production, allowing Sondheim to finally convince him to move on & do something new
this first struck me many years ago, when I was part of hosting an event, and an oversight on our part meant that some participants showed up without any buy-in to what we were doing, and dramatically disrupted something others had flown across the continent for
we learned interesting stuff from the disruption, and a co-host was emphasizing those, but when she said she wasn't that surprised by it happening I was like "wait, but why didn't we do something to prevent that then?! then we could have found out how well it was possible to do!"
I've still got a lot to learn re actually cultivating that much diligence & excellence. Whether it's fear of success or fear of rejection or something else, I often make underpreparedness-shaped mistakes eg this could probably have been way better
there's a powerful spiritual insight to be found in seeing how in some sense you couldn't have avoided making all the mistakes you made and there's lots of low-hanging fruit to be found in taking them seriously so you can make new ones next time
for an old beautiful post of mine exploring the spiritual insight about transcending regret & mistakes (without the later third-more-complex-thing insight that this thread is about) check out this piece: malcolmocean.com/2017/11/transc…
ah, here's another way to point at the post-regret insight, kinda with less confusion: beating yourself up about something that happened generally doesn't help there's already whatever happened and how you feel—adding any extra pain/problem is fake twitter.com/darcyjae/statu…
also if you are beating yourself up about things, you don't have to beat yourself up about that but it's okay if you do, etc etc ×♾
ah and the other missing piece here is coherence empathy, which is grokking that in fact doing exactly what you did was *actually* what made sense to you at the time that's true while also it had costs. don't negate, bring those in dialogue to get a bigger perspective for future
revisiting the original tweet (rephrased) maybe my point is that truly recognizing *in first person* that you cannot change anything about the past opens up a whole different kind of learning (so below has causal arrow backwards)
ahh, and I think he's also critiquing people who avoid FEELING the pain of whatever was lost as a result of the mistake although "lost" still sort of treats the counterfactual world as the default, which is the confusion I'm trying to point at here slippery stuff, fuck
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"sensemaking" is a word
@carmenleelau your whole system is made of sensemaking
@carmenleelau although also it may not mean what it seems to mean
@augustiner_h @rex_woodbury also - many alcoholic drinks are delicious - someone smoking nearby is an awful sensation smell-wise - alcohol is easier for most people to consume a lil bit of throughout their life without getting addicted
Replying to @alt_visa
@alt_visa ah yeah or they sort of oversimplify it or have a standard for one of the variables that nearly everyone would hit (which seems like it happens often)
Retweeted @tasshinfogleman
i’ve found a lot of power in saying the simple phrase “i know” to myself.
@tasshinfogleman wow, this is gorgeous. direct way to allow yourself to know what you know
this is absolutely gonna be me when I'm older (this is already me I just don't have the white beard & cane yet)
@PlaneHarvester yup, exactly
@m_ashcroft I love the comment feature for sharing, and the fact that it's very easy to share with specific people it's cool that they've been iterating on it too, like you can @-link to other docs by name, and there's pageless mode
@timheiler oh sorry, sure, yes, that also generalizes but that is a very tiny piece of biology compared to all the specifics that biologists are mostly learning/researching, about why certain metabolic whatevers evolved or how DNA is encoded none of which directly translates interplanet
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"whatevers" is a word
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The Goal-Crafting Intensives is how I started coaching. I love the 5h intentional space of focusing, the fact that each p…
@RichDecibels ooou I am interested! not sure what kind of reminder you want haha if this tweet isn't it, lmk what is 😜
@JakeOrthwein @AnnaLeptikon part of my deal is I help people see what their deal is, so we might have ourselves a win-win opportunity here (I also know some other people who have their own flavor of a deal that involves figuring out others' deals, eg @_TeresaHart_, @mary_bajorek, @thetracebrady )
@JakeOrthwein I'm kinda intrigued by the sense in which my thing feels different ahh, my thing is more interfacey, like I'm asking "how does this person plug into other people and systems?" and sort of having my own opinion about that by staring at them vs thinking about careers or gifts
@RichDecibels aha nice I've done tall cupboard a few times before, or shelves of some other kind bluetooth keyboard really helps there
@relic_radiation I'm here for this!