0755 – learning music, learning everything (pt 1)
I was noodling around on my guitar earlier and I found myself thinking about my personal learning journey as a musician. I don
adulthood threadpost
0093 – transitioning to adulthood, maladjustment I was doing some reading (blog.asmartbear.com today) But then a swarm of sc
addiction threadpost
Putting together this threadpost, I find myself thinking that my thoughts about addiction circle around video games, social me
sleep threadpost
0008 – waking up early gives you more options I slept early last night, and it was a great decision to have made. Well, earl
‘review your stuff’ threadpost
Okay so this is going to be a new kind of vomit, inspired by my twitter threads. I’m basically going to pick a tag, and
0754 – how ask good questions? (pt 1)
(the following vomit is likely going to be extremely sketchy and incoherent) How do you ask good questions? I think the fun ge
0753 – beware the tyranny of coherence
It’s 253am on November 22nd 2018. I was having trouble sleeping and so I got out of bed. Usually when I get out of bed becau
0751 + 0752 – introspect: navigating authentic wants vs manufactured wants
(this is an unedited rant, written as raw material to be subsequently edited into the book. The book will not be this rambly)
0750 – accelerating the final quarter [75% complete!]
It’s 323am on Friday, 9th November 2018 and I’m writing word vomit number 0750. When I’m done with this, I w
0748 + 0749 – pursue interestingness
prompt: “How people maintain thought, like holding it in their head, writing it down, tweeting, storytelling. How to opt
0747 – how I make new friends on the internet
prompt: “what’s one thing / field / etc you know irrationally too much about? how did you come to that field? what
0746 – explore the spaces in between
prompt: how to explore without doing what everyone else is (the original prompt was about “overtourism”, but IR
0745 – encourage weirdos, discourage assholes
OK for starters, I’ve put together a thread of tweets that I’ve tweeted about weirdness, and I think they provide
0744 – we stress to communicate that we’re serious
prompt: why do people stress so much I love this question! I remember I once watched this video on SikhNet by this guy called
0743 – seeing through the mundane
Prompt: “the mundane” The word “mundane” has French and Latin origins – “mondain”, meaning “of this earth
0742 – navigating unhappiness
Prompt: “unhappiness” I’ve long been interested in the relationships between the words we have for feelings,
0741 – “living intentionally vs living in the stream of continuous reactions to outside inputs”
Here’s an interesting and personal prompt: “Would love your thoughts on living intentionally vs living in the stre
0740 – framing one’s life as a set of projects
I did some tweets about project management and I got a request to say more words about it. It’s interesting for me to co
0739 – how to live in a manufactured reality
Prompt: “Whether or not the fact that everything we do might be within a manufactured reality changes how we should live
0738 – playfulness as a discipline/practice
I’ve started asking people for prompts for these vomits. The first one I got that I liked was “write about playful
0737 – start interfacing with others
It’s November the 1st, 2018. I’ve been in a feral free agent state for four months now. What do I have to show for
0736 – reconsidering the trauma narrative
I’ve been thinking about something Aella said about the trauma narrative. Actually she said a lot of thoughtful, interes