July

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No one: what are you thinking about? July: plant machete

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I had an ice cream cone for lunch yesterday 4 year old July would be so amped I’m living exactly as he dreamed up

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East Coker V. T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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I carry it around with me now

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there’s a story about yvon chouinard where at some point he’s product testing his Patagonia gear somewhere flying fishing in Montana or somewhere and one of his employees calls him and tells him there’s a fire in the warehouse, and asks what should we do??? he responds with something along the lines : “I’m fly fishing right now so you’re gonna have to figure it out”

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I need an unobtrusive calm technology style way to signal to folks that I am afk I am afk often

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“Adrift in the sea of information and data, we seek a narrative anchor.” The crisis of narration, Byung-Chul Han

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Sometimes I use up a lot of energy to produce very little results Not a good or bad thing, just noticing it

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Something I’ve noticed about this too is that there are a bunch of things that are not in my sweet spot of agency and interest, and I’ve noticed that it requires me extra energy to do those things. I’ve also noticed that if I force myself to do these things repeatedly and forcefully without being nice to myself and not take care of myself — I burn out (in the short term or long terms) and so what I’ve noticed is that I have to figure out a way to regulate myself and my state and also manage the deadlines and timelines in a way that is sustainable for me. In the past, I used to think that I had to push through (self be damned) but I’ve burned out enough times to know that that just doesn’t work for me, congratulations if it works for you and by you I mean you all

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No one: Absolutely no one: July:

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There's this story about Soichiro Honda, the founder of Honda about when he retired. The story goes something like this: When he got older, after he had developed Honda into this world-class international motor company built on the success of Honda, the Super Cub and cars, planes, everything. He stepped aside as chairman and CEO. One of the things that he immediately did, was this: he toured every Honda office, every Honda factory, and met with every single Honda employee and shook their hand and thanked them individually for everything that they had done and everything they would do. Two words: “thank you.”This approximately took 5 days a week for about 2 and a half years. And he did this tirelessly until he had met every employee at every plant and every office. I think about this sometimes because that's crazy and it's crazy beautiful. And the entire time — he was a kid about it. I respect this immensely, moved even

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Write your own words, make your own bread, write poems, write code, draw your own circles, love unflinchingly, hug wholeheartedly, cry it all out, do it all and do it fully

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Hah. Ironically this is actually not the reason why. I apologize mainly because I want to be the kind of person who apologizes when I believe that I’m in the wrong. And I fundamentally don’t care if the thing is sentient or not or ever will be. It’s more about cultivating a certain attitude towards others and believing that How I interact with them ultimately matters

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I apologize to my llm when I'm wrong

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One of the things that I cannot stand and breaks my heart but also existentially destroys us if we really look into it is the industrial breeding of animals. I do not pretend to have an answer to this

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one of my dreams when i die is to be put on a rocket, and go as fast as humanly possible and then get as close to the sun before the entire thing burns, which in today's technology and thermal protection systems (maybe like ceramic matrix composites), gets to ~ 1/3 of the way between mercury and the sun

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Physical books are my emotional support animal

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Maybe true maybe not : emotion, or having emotion, holding a feeling — generally single threaded- whatever emotion you hold generally, it occupies a single slot and you have it. You can only have one at a time. Hard to have two emotions at once, there’s mixtures or concoctions but I’m having trouble recalling feeling two in parallel I also have a sense it’s like a buoy it sort of bobs up and down, it’s visible (from the conscious side) but also controlled by invisible forces to you (invisibly unconscious)

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First of all, my impression reading Simulacra and Simulation — my first reaction: Jean Baudrillard is such an edgelord, jaysus christ Then all of a sudden - I rememberd reading long ago that the creators of the matrix were inspired by it and I was wondering what it was all about. Then I read the chapter on “Clone Story”. This idea of the information-fication of reproduction. The absence of sex as an act itself and how it becomes useless or as a ritualistic act is devoid of meaning, of tying it to Walter Benjamin and art in the age of reproduction.

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I have an idea: I’d like to create a fund for when I die - the sole purpose is all expenses paid fly all of my friends and family for one gigantic party to celebrate my death. Or a Viking funeral would be acceptable as well

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