Tom Beck

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Wait, NW Illinois! Where exactly? I grew up not too far from Galena.

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Is it because it doesn’t have a feed? It’s because it doesn’t have a feed.

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But not knowing implies that you have so much time margin it doesn’t matter how much is “left.”

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Same. Good old flow state.

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Same. Trying to do more activities like that.

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That’s the trick. Not knowing implies not caring about it.

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Except “AI” is not a “you” in this scenario, it’s an “it.”

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True luxury is not knowing what time it is.

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Number two is key and changes the entire dynamic.

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The slowcore quote of the day is more of a passage today. Here goes: “Most people’s lives are filled with mystery, but things move super fast nowadays and there’s not much time to sit and daydream and notice the mystery. There are fewer places in the world now where you can see the stars in the night sky. Trillions of stars. Trillions. It’s so powerful. And because we’re not seeing those stars we’re forgetting how grand the whole show is.” From Room to Dream, by David Lynch

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At last I have written something. All is right in the world. 😇

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I took a photo of a rainbow.

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This is common in history. Even after the Black Death, where 1/3 of Europe perished, and some towns saw a half to three-quarters of their population die, there is almost no mention of it by writers of the time. But the effects were there. Change came slowly and “invisibly with time.”

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Yes? I remember reading Nassim Taleb on Medium back in the day. The trajectory is familiar: new platform makes itself the “home” for long-form writing. It leverages existing talent for clout. Entices those writers with handsome payouts. Then touts “we’re finally paying writers” as marketing angle. Draws in hordes of amateur writers hoping to make a buck. They soon discover that merely being on the right platform is insufficient. They resort to clickbait to compete for shrinking eyeballs. Everyone writes listicles because it’s the most efficient form. Monetization becomes selling courses about how to monetize your writing selling courses.

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Substack turning into Medium right on schedule.

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This is true of all social media, though. It’s also true of all art forms. In fact, all communication is self-referential.

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Knowledge is substrate independent.

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The word itself contains a hint: "kind" likely derives from "kin." So to be kind is to treat people like they are our kin, our family. And we tend to support our brother or mother or son at their best and at their worst. Bc we always remember they have a backstory, and know in our bones that they are just like us.

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I don't think these philosophies encourage detachment from emotions (or emotions as negative). Rather they focus on detaching from meta cognition (i.e., thoughts about the emotions). These philosophies are very old, and tremendous philosophical progress has been made (recently, and into the future, by women). I suspect they are popular today because they are fairly easy to understand and also immediately practical in a self-administered CBT-type fashion. However, as your post demonstrates, there's a subtlety to this thinking that gets lost (that it isn't about emotions per se, but more about thinking patterns in relation to emotional triggers).

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The hard part is you have to ignore the praise as well as the criticism.

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