Notes from this week: - the most joyful things in life are blissfully unquantifiable - your life can change drastically in a single day, the future is loose and serendipitous - style and taste can be stable regardless of location, but it takes time to develop either

the sudden anonymity of going somewhere new is jarring: you can be someone entirely new. but usually we don’t change much, realizing the self is a dynamic, environment-agnostic cluster of quirks, traits, and ways of being so deeply embedded in us that we’re not even aware of it.

Every skill you learn brings you one step closer to freedom.

into this idea of emotional genius

Many thoughtful people get destabilized by deep questions of science & philosophy - what are the implications for how to live life? Here, my 2 simplistic flowcharts that I created during home study units with my kids. Good news: no matter the answers, the To-Do item is same.

📢 Exciting News! 🚀 We're thrilled to announce our new project on "Building the Field for deliberately Developmental Spaces" in collaboration with @FetzerInstitute, Commonweal, and @EskäretFoundation! 🌟

The CEO of OpenAI hoping a movie about the man who made the literal worst thing on earth would inspire kids to be scientists tells you everything you need to know about OpenAI

Happening this Friday: clea.research.vub.be/clea-seminar-c…

I would love to see ALL of you there. It’s free and a SUPER delightful community of kind and bright people. It will be VERY chill, with more practice than theory and more us than me. ♥️

Clays vows at the altar: ‘ I see you’re wearing a dress there’

just people living in the moment … not a single research proposal or grant application in sight

The world is held together by those who largely don’t consider it, and occasionally transformed, for better or worse, by those who do

For every minute a co worker spends complaining to you at lunch you should get that time added on at the end of your break

‘Of the 40 leading economies, all of which agreed in the 2015 Paris Climate Accord to take all necessary actions to stop global heating below 1.5°C, not one nation is on track to do what they promised’ - climate action tracker

We're doing user research asking folks from "the space"(*) how they found it, what it is, what they need in terms of resources ... If you would like to be interviewed let us know 😄 (*) #metacrisis, #metamodern, #SecondRenaissance, #liminalweb ...

We need a revolution of the human spirit aimed at liberating our cognitive faculties and labor so we can explore ourselves creatively and explore consciousness itself.

Wow, finally serious headway has been made on deriving the periodic table of elements from underlying quantum mechanics: the first 50 elements are done, using a combination of simulations (quantum Monte Carlo) and new math tricks... It had always vexed me that we couldn't derive

< If the Cosmos is the unfolding of various kinds of organization in relation to other organizations, it is equally, then, at least under this view, the unfolding of various kinds of cycles in relation to other kinds of cycles. > * The Organizational Cosmos