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San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2013
Reality is that which, when you look closer at it, rewards you with more detail
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we call it "follow the leader" not "lead the followers"
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Ability to sit still & not fidget while paying attention / getting work done is a costly fitness signal
Replying to @eigenrobot
living in my yard has made me more cognizant of the fact that the universe has a surprising amount of detail, and of the fact that it is easily overlooked if one is not paying attention it is the opposite of hyperreality and it is glorious in its own numinous way
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Mike Plotz (59/100 morning walks) retweeted
New plant which feels very computational
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make stupid axioms, get stupid results
Two ways to miscategorize: 1. put a thing in the wrong category 2. draw the wrong category around the things
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this made me chuckle, and I suspect that irl would have made me literally lol the bar is so much higher on the tl than out in the world – so easy to take a jaded view
Once in a blue screen, I see a bumper sticker that literally makes me laugh out loud. This is one of them.
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we're all wearing jade colored glasses
map != territory I am physics theory of mind … what else?
them: the harder it is to make a decision the less it matters which one you choose me: the cleverer an idea sounds the stupider it is in practice
Buridan’s ass is not about the paradox of choice It’s about symmetry breaking
Mike Plotz (59/100 morning walks) retweeted
well, it's finally here: The Path of Love, my book on loving kindness practice and the brahmavihārās ❤️ it's available in PDF, ePub, and MOBI for $0+ on Gumroad, + is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, so you can read, distribute, remix it freely tasshin.com/metta-book
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