Kontext

"A Stoic Resurrection: Notes from the Journal of a Modern Stoic"

Reminder for today: be in one task at a time. Don’t dilute your attention. Wherever you are, whatever you do, be there, 100%.

Kontext looking for a job update: primal.net/e/nevent1qqswj…

You have access to more human knowledge now than at any time in known history. People used to have to travel their whole lives to pursue a fraction of what's available to us today. What are you doing with that opportunity? Can you use it to change the world for the better? 🪶

@lichthauch Science, God and Stoicism are not mutually exclusive

Every man that tries to figure out the world entirely on his own ends up building a small, stupid god to replace the one he rejected. it never fails. he drops God, picks up science or stoicism or some guy on the internet who read enough books to pass for a prophet, and within six months he's talking about cold showers and circadian rhythms with the same exact tone a priest uses on sunday. the need to worship doesn't go anywhere just because you decided you're too smart for it. it just finds smaller things to attach to, and smaller gods make smaller people. nobody quits God. they trade down.

Feel free to give The Basics of Yoga a read or listen: primal.net/a/naddr1qvzqqq…

I'd also definitely recommend this short video by @HarmonyCreates on the topic of theosis: youtube.com/watch?v=E2x2WT…

The thing I really like about my earlier writing is its unhinged rawness and innocence. Sure, the style hadn't developed much, the prose was weaker, vocabulary smaller, etc. I hadn't read or studied that much of anything (still haven't much, but a bit more for sure).

@millerman 100% Some of these people seem to overlook the fact that Maslow was acutally onto something with his hierarchy of needs...

I have to tell those of you who may have been brainwashed in an academic philosophy program or some other scenario that you don't need to hate or look down on money and the people who make it. One day you will need to take care of your friends and family, and you'll want to have money to travel, to enjoy nice things, to support causes you care about, to invest, to give you peace of mind, etc. It is not the most important thing in the world, but that doesn't make it unimportant. You can be "spiritual" and "moral" without being "poor" -- (and obviously you can have a lot of money and be spiritually and morally bankrupt, and unhappy). Plus, it may be that some of your professors who told you that money doesn't matter (if that's what they told you) certainly would not like to lose their six figure salaries, etc. etc. You don't have to want to be super wealthy. However, wanting to earn money, learning to manage it intelligently, and all of that, is not beneath your dignity or unworthy of you as an artist or thinker.

Synergy? Synchonicity? IDK. Whatever it is, it works. There's a thread, a line, a path. Follow it.

Also available via @stacker_news: stacker.news/items/1496842 Audio version via @fountain_app: fountain.fm/episode/uclVOo… Medium, Substack, etc. links coming later. #V4V 1st 🤠

New short essay: primal.net/e/naddr1qvzqqq…

Love is the default state. It takes no effort. Fear, hate, anger - these are the emotions that you must constantly feed in order for them to exist. Letting go of those emotions is to simply stop feeding them.

@thekylehuber Yo! I'm looking for a job, preferably in the Bitcoin / freedom tech space. I've posted some details about myself and what I can offer: primal.net/e/nevent1qqs8f…

I love working with bitcoiners. If you're a bitcoiner and content creator, especially an editor, I want to connect. Please reach out.

A poem. primal.net/a/naddr1qvzqqq…

"Bitcoin is not just money. It is, in a Jungian sense, a symbolic mirror; a structure that reflects back the ethical coherence, or incoherence, of its participants." ― @discoveringbtc

Just finished reading "The Spiral of Sovereignty: Bitcoin and the Recovery of Value" by @discoveringbtc primal.net/discoveringbit… Excellent piece. Another wonderful explanation as to why "what is money" is a deeply philosophical question. Reminded me of this meditation on freedom:

“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” ― Gospel of Thomas

GROWTH BEGINS WHERE COMFORT ENDS

if you know why, I want to follow you.