
Cristina Moon
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Cristina Moon
@cmoon
Social Tech / Strategy / Zen "Three Years on the Great Mountain: A Memoir of Zen & Fearlessness" out June 18.










The Great Athletic Softening The collective obsession with community-building, self-care, social validation, and a growing quest to make everyone happy all the time is ruining sports. Over the last few years adults have increasingly turned sports and athletics into a participation parade. We've created a bizarre parallel universe where everyone's an athlete, but nobody's competing. Observations on modern run clubs, amateur adult athletics, and a broader cultural shift away from the mechanism that has historically driven human achievement and progress: competition. Make Adults Competitive Again: link below







Last night, finished @cmoon's memoir of life at an O'ahu dojo that hones intense self-act(ualizat)ion via arts martial & courtly. Rare the read with such insight on zen's diverse ideas/ways; on Hawai'i's unique culture; and about a friend herself. #brava bookshop.org/p/books/three-…

One of my favorite things about criticism (reading it, writing it) is how it can enable coolness and clarity of thought. Began this review feeling surly at state of memoir/the career memoirist's shtick, finished it feeling something else entirely newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…







