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alright I just wrote
Why Well-Trained Human Senses Are The Most Mathematically Rigorous Wellness Approach
over on my longform blog! this is a big roundup of lots of my worldviews. curious what yall think
today I met someone who's been programming for 25 years and specifically values "high-efficiency, low-tech" tech
tech that "gets people off of it, and back into the physical world"
and also "sustainable tech" - which anyone can easily fix, if it breaks
a friend who reads a lot offhandedly said
"yeah I liked the book! but it has some 'first novel syndrome' - the author is trying to make this book contain the entire world"
I think about this often
“self love” discourse is fine and great but I think the main thing it misses
is a real, deep soul need for attachments to trustworthy & relationally-skilled friends and *elders*.
even with all the self-love in the world: without wise teachers we are unnecessarily fumbling
OH MY GOD MY YEARNING FOR APPROVAL FROM CERTAIN PEOPLE IS A misplaced longing for being parented
the spark of 'I want them to like meeeee' is - so tender, and from that age so innocent.
how do I meet THAT unmet need
one thing I honestly do not understand is why there is not more serious scientific inquiry about “what happens after we die”
except for this one UVa prof with a database of 2.5k cases of kids who report memories of past lives
some of which are pretty unignorable
woah woah. my mythosomatics teacher (Josh Schrei) expects that in 10-20 years, we’ll see a cultural shift *away* from tech and phones, simply because the present state is “not somatically tenable”
or it’ll be similar to ‘fire’ which lives in ‘fireplaces’ and not elsewhere
this was extra interesting because she apparently worked at one of the now-big AI companies back in 2017, until she realized its values were the polar opposite of hers.
they're going for "low-efficiency, high-tech" whose technical workings are inscrutable to the average user
ooo I found an artist that draws turbulence and network patterns, I dig. not sure what exactly these are but they look math-backed in a way that freehand doodles often don't, and alive in a way math often doesn't
owen schuh
she recommended me these two blogs which I look forward to perusing:
"There's Hundred Rabbits; they live on a sailboat while doing "experiments on resilience and self-reliance through low-tech solutions." They rederived their entire tech stack from scratch when they found most
imo a lot of “desire to be impactful at high-scale,” or save the world or w/e
is a misplaced longing for ecstasy
and, ecstasy is 100% available at small scale, with the right singing and dancing and artistry among friends and beloveds
that connects to something cosmic, too