Moved to design the invisible + visible. Let's talk experimental theater + complexity work + contemplative practices + weird metaphysical stuff. She/her.
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My personal approach to effective altruism is meritmaxxing, and right now the ODF has a 2-for-1 special on dharma-per-dollar. If you're looking for good karma, it's an amazing deal
Yesterday I learned about the "photo-taking impairment effect" from @billardkarr, how taking a pic of an event or object reduces one's memory of it compared to simply observing it
Today I received this from my @WeCroakApp
"It is enough"
ALT At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. Toni Morrison
.@LeRoyDesCimes's brilliant thread reminds me exactly why this is one of my favorite shirts
ALT picture of my wearing a black shirt with white text on it that reads "hero & hero & hero & hero worship kills community"
In leaving small group conversations that you were actively part of, is it better to acknowledge that you're gonna wander off, or better to French exit?
57%Say you're going
43%French exit
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this great @dreamyweather thread articulates the general, & inevitable, phenomenon of "ppl leaving the broad top-of-funnel space to go hang out in more intimate spaces"
the very first time i heard abt this was yrs ago when i started going to NYC rat meetups and asked @yashkaf (a very famously rationalist New Yorker) if i'd see him there; he said he hadn't gone in years. at the time i didn't understand..what do you mean you don't go to meetups *for the specific thing you like* anymore and just hang out with friends [who you met at the meetups]??
still haunted by @exgenesis calling Hadestown "mid" and "for babies", after I shared it's my favorite musical which I've watched and cried three times to now
it's me, I'm a mid baby
brilliant essay on "chronically online" conversations:
"where strangers make willfully decontextualized moral judgments on other people’s lives [..] what all of these arguments have in common is that very few people engage in them in real life" vox.com/the-goods/23497207/c…
hello, it's Sunday and time for your next reread of Sasha Chapin's Deep Okayness.
thanks @garbledgarfield for the reminder 💞 open.substack.com/pub/sashac…
"It is the deactivation of the part of my mind that used to attack itself. It’s the closure of the self as an attack surface."
body scans: for years I'd get bored by this technique, assuming it "had" to be minute and thorough.
now I realize it can be a sweep of my body, scanning for any tension inadvertently held, before gently releasing it.
how funny to over-engineer body scans for myself for so long.
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7/x My research is neither done in a vacuum nor meant to be objective; it is shaped by my own experiences of migration, precarious work, lack, loss, and by the conviction that research only matters if it helps transform reality.
"'It is not that divorce reveals a more elemental aspect to a person’s character—although it certainly can—but that it is the only way to find out who we are in those moments of pain, loss, and shame that come after standing up in front of the people you trust and love the most'
Mlotek writes near the end, 'only to say later that you hadn’t known what you were doing.' I love a sentence like that: casual, but never cavalier, as mortifying as it is true." hunterharris.substack.com/p/…