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a message from a Moroccan friend, I am so charmed by how warm people in Morocco are—especially man-man interactions are v moving to me, a felt belonging, brotherhood unlike anything I encountered in EU/US (man-women interactions sometimes can be different though)

@maebichka interested, i may be in nyc soon

IF I THREW A DANCE PARTY IN NEW YORK CITY WOULD YOU COME

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@NathanpmYoung i am confused about agency vs. flow. Maybe a good question is: how agency can be flowy (or flow agentic )? somehow these two are often opposite in my system. And weirdly, going with the flow side of things, on average, opens better things to me. cc @catehall

I expect to find Cate Hall and Sasha Chapin's book useful. I have found their frames useful before. I guess best for people who don't care about agency rather than those who are always trying to be.

i read this article and made this meditation once, so update accordingly. I think I was able to contact something pure there, in the u-are-worthy-by-the-fact-of-just-existing space. I tried quite a lot of varied loving kindness meditation approaches, and now maybe i realize this one helps go into similar emotion space and avoid subtle forcing of loving feeling. I think the following bit in the explainer helped me. I almost want something of this fragment to be included in the meditation itself: A lot of loving-kindness practices are framed in terms of cultivating positive feelings, but Snyder explicitly described the practice as not cultivating anything, merely making contact with what’s already there. Someone might challenge this distinction - if you are repeatedly doing a practice that brings up positive feelings in you and making them more likely, how isn’t that cultivating a feeling? For me, the distinction is in what kind of mental move comes up when trying to do the practice. If I think that I am trying to cultivate a feeling, then that often makes me feel like I’m trying to grab at my mind to pull that feeling out, push it in the direction of that feeling, or somehow dig up the right kinds of sensations. But if I think that I’m just trying to notice or remember what’s already there, then it’s easier for me to recall a memory and just notice the quality that the memory already had, without trying to change it. This is important, because the right quality and the striving to feel it are opposed. The right experience does not involve trying to grab at it. It involves… just feeling the experience, without trying to do anything about it. One of the most valuable hints for meditation that I’ve ever heard was something that Jasen Murray mentioned just briefly (emphasis added): “People seem to have a difficult time describing how they relax these tensions. They often say things like “Relaxing this tension is not really a matter of ‘doing’ anything. It is the ‘doing’ that is the source of the tension. Let go of all doing.” There’s something to that, but it is easy to misinterpret. The confusion comes from the mistaken belief that the feeling of ‘effort’ or ‘control’ is produced by the processes responsible for generating the relevant behavior in the same way that the experience of color is produced by the processes responsible for sight. Those feelings are actually just the result of more attachment to sensations.”

@nickcammarata could u break down the claim "all emotions are contractions" into specific emotions? "negative" sure, but what about positive, for example "love"

starting to think there’s really only one emotion, and it’s contractive energy, which is why you can transmute any emotion to any other like the tibetans say, move it around your body like qi. appears as many things bc sensory clarity too low, the energy pixels coagulate

@NathanpmYoung I have a folder of bits eg. default rumination • It gives me life • you are typical minding

I need more content for my bits doc. What is your favourite bit?

don’t click this like button bc you may be sucked into my feed

3. The most excitable kids often end up becoming the most anxious adults. Anxiety can often be repressed excitement. Their caretakers shut their excitement down. And now they do it to themselves.

I have a crazy exploratory nature. Like quite convinced I am 📐📏⏳📐 >97% percentile. I’ve traveled a lot in my lajf. And I realized that I fulfilled something there. Rn I am staying in Morocco in one spot. It has incredible nature, ocean around but I could go to a lot more “Moroccan” spots, see the less European Morocco, sniff the most alien Moroccan bits—but something in me just allows me to stay. (I am close to Essaouira with supposedly the most incredible medina so temptation is strong) but I just stay bc I want focus, calmness, ocean, huge rock views, time and focus to work, write and do nothing meditation. My X doesn’t work and I want it to work so I will try sharing more personal stuff. Hi 👋 friend 💌

- Cruxiness slider (is this the actual disagreement, or a side issue) - Steelman mode: must restate the prior speaker’s point to their satisfaction before adding - Silence: timed silent reflection before anyone speaks - Questions only mode

Discussion app where everybody has different feedback sliders and modes to turn on. Sliders: - I think I understand the argument / where are you going with this. - Agree-disagree - Important-unimportant Modes, liberum veto (one person turns it on for everybody): - From now on, responses to other people / other people’s arguments are outlawed (punishment is being muted). State your own thoughts, beliefs “in vacuum” encouraged. Modes, majority vote: - Vote for who you want to hear speak next (multi-choice) What’s missing?

@jbdolg @samhinkie Thanks for the pointer Jack! And I would love to hear @samhinkie thoughts on Dig Text!

@pawsys @samhinkie suggested something similar once, but that was before LLM's were around. Neat to see it finally in action!

I just created Dig Text, a new writing standard, which allows you to read the shortest version first, and dig deeper only where it interests you. I thought about dig about ten years ago, lol, and now, with the help of Claude Code, I spent two weeks thinking it through and coding it. It’s still in BETA, so I’m gathering feedback, but I would love love if you try it and let me know what works and what doesn’t. Link in the comments!

the most important thing in art is to embody the state I am a “god’s” kid, my work is amazing, impactful, important and act, work like it. If some people won’t see it from the begging the work will become more clear and they eventually will

we are entering a world where everything will have an agent eg. the surface of my desk, the right leg of my desk, my plant, each key on my keyboard. it unleashes crazy capabilities of a more interconnected and mutually understood world, but also a horror of customizability where you want different instructions for each

slow boring inside feels good

not do social media dum-scrolling (following trances of other people so they have views and companies so they have ads-dollars)(it’s so much better to connect to the body, do slow movement, sencha, read w focus. slow connected inside feels better than quick disengaged outside)

I set @interaction to send me this question 3x a day and log my answers. It's two weeks in and I recommend installing this question in your life.