the calm before the storm it’s 4:58 in the morning, and section 2/1 of brian eno’s music for airports has just woken me. this is heaven. gentle minimal piano and angelic female voices, barely audible and yet for me a siren call: my morning pages await. next to me, the woman is sound asleep. [...]
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let’s make a deal a funny thing happened as i journeyed into my week of want, one of those bifurcations that shows the true meaning of infinity: i foolishly thought that framing questions of “what to do?” around what i want to do, rather than what i should do, or need to do, would [...]
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pushing the stone okay then. it’s a new month, and i was going to take a bit of a deepening from the theme of presence or sustainment, the ram energy, the krishna vishnu energy, by dipping into thankfulness, and using my morning pages as an opportunity to explore the depths of my [...]
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When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth becomes useless, and reason is powerless. herophilus 300 b.c. thanks to daniela haskara for the herophilus quote, and may i close the loop by saying that if you ain’t got reason, wealth, strength, art,or wisdom, you ain’t [...]
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rubber band the wrist okay then. complaint free world. rubber band the wrist and there we go. the big no of complaint the greatest block to the flow of passion is the big no of complaint. at its simplest we have the flow of yes and the dam of no. and the no is a [...]
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choice architecture in their book nudge, richard thaler and cass sunstein bring us the term choice architect, someone who creates a system to guide people in a particular direction of choice. my favorite example of a choice architect is the genius who came up with the idea of etching flies near the drains of urinals [...]
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