Derek Van Ittersum

@ascetic_shadow @frideswyth This might be useful in that direction. a.co/d/0itw5UiY

@frideswyth my wife speaks english as a second language. academic language and abstract concepts in english don’t sink in the same way that dialogues do. also spanish doesn’t lend itself as well to abstract concepts as say english or german does so i find spanish versions wanting

looking for book recommendations on kegan stages. does one exist that is similar to what “courage to be disliked” is to alder’s ideas? appreciate reposts to get reach

@tasshinfogleman What’s complicated about Drafts? Sure it can do many things, but if you want it to do one thing, it can be very simple.

any good mobile capture apps on iPhone for Obsidian? i don't like the official Obsidian app; i have Drafts and it's way too complicated; Apple Notes is more my speed but it's buggy these days and doesn't integrate with Obsidian

If young men don’t want to be drafted to fight in Kamala’s and Cheney’s 3rd World War they better get out and vote for Trump.

Twenty years ago we invaded Iraq. The war killed many innocent Iraqis and Americans. It destroyed the oldest Christian populations in the world. It cost over $1 trillion, and turned Iraq into a satellite of Iran. It was an unforced disaster, and I pray that we learn its lessons.

I’m the CEO of a hot dog company. I’ve worked on hot dogs for 10 years. And *I* wasn’t prepared for what I’ve just seen. Your life is about to change. So what can you do? Buy as many hot dogs as you can. Buy stock in hot dog companies.

@anielsen108 Catcher in the Rye?

If I were to offer a class on the ethnic literature of white American men, I might include these ten novels: The Scarlet Letter Moby Dick Tom Sawyer The Wizard of Oz The Sun Also Rises The Grapes of Wrath Catch-22 Gravity’s Rainbow White Noise Infinite Jest

Its telling on the algo that my rw friends feeds show them leftists celebrating, and my lw friends feeds are showing liberals denouncing it. The bubbles will keep causing death and engagement.

I co-authored a post with @andrew0blevins, Choices in Feeling. The "choices" part is about different ways that we can relate to emotional reactivity. The post covers self-regulation (the mainstream approach) and Liberating Emotion (an unconventional approach) the contemporary Vajrayana practice that we teach in Evolving Ground. eG's upcoming seven-week course “Liberating Emotions” will cover this topic in much greater depth, with scaffolding methods, guided practices, and interactive support. It begins on Tuesday, September 30, 7:00 to 8:30pm ET. Post and course details follow:

@anielsen108 Was on my mind during our call today. First thing I thought of.

These are still my favorite meditation instructions for children:

@anielsen108 How does someone in that mode see the branching paths ahead? Not, I imagine, like Sylvia Plath. goodreads.com/quotes/7511-i-…

@derekvan “Ownership” here is like being the captain of a submarine: full gnosis in the gut that whatever happens and whoever is doing it, the buck stops with you.

With a vast lust for life, you both understand practically and would enjoy doing twelve hours day–after–day, of any single element of your life: socializing, bodily movement, working for money, spiritual activities… Then owning time allocation trade-offs become a reality.

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@almostheir To use AT language, I think the parents here are “endgaining” by thinking they can skip process. As if the result can be aimed at directly without the process. I am still working to interrupt this habit in myself 🤪

Metaphors We Live By, Posture Edition it's easy to get bent out of shape when you realize how closely posture and character are tied

@Meaningness @dorzacht @_awbery_ is dragging me into using Notion. I guess you’ve been spared!

@dorzacht Thanks! I know how to use Airtable and am trying that first. Many friends/collaborators use Notion and I should probably give it a go.

Organizing my innumerable creative projects-in-progress. By topic or priority? I want both! Plus status, location of incomplete work, ... Apparently I need a database? Maybe it's time to learn to use an LLM to build simple apps? #YakShaving

@MaxSoweski relevant for recent conversations with bonus reference to mobility

@anielsen108 What about programs of social destruction? If we can identify them and offer alternatives, seems useful to me.

While society could better support “the mental demands of modern life”, I am suspicious of programs of social improvement; historically, they have either been incredible time-sucks for theorizing about social improvement, or, when implemented, have had terrible side-effects.

Re: Kegan stages... Descriptively, they usefully reveal alternate patterns of relating to people, wherever they are at. As with Taking Children Seriously, I reject normative or prescriptive approaches to development, except with the rare severe remedial developmental issues.

@OortCloudAtlas Bruce Tift’s Already Free. First listened as a sounds true program (maybe you worked on it?), then read the book, then read it again many years later. Each time it had an important effect.

Looking back over decades of reading spiritual books, only a few have ever really landed or made a big difference. Probably the most powerful has been "I Am That," by Nisargadatta Maharaja. How about you?

@connerdelights I’m interested to try this out. Over the last year I’ve been using readwise reader for this. Can upload epub, they have some kind of premium voices they contracted, and best bonus is I can tap an AirPod and highlight the current paragraph.

audiblez has continued to get better! has a gui now. claudio.uk/posts/audiblez…

The answer I ended with is using the (brand new) Kokoro 82M model, which runs locally and sounds great. This script, audiblez, makes epub → wav easy, and then I package into mp4.

Yes. We have a major constitutional crisis. Americans did not fight and die to protect democracy so that the richest man in the world could single-handedly dismantle agencies that protect workers, consumers & children. Together, we can and will defeat Trump’s authoritarianism.