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the content of a thought is the "I just need to …" the shape of a thought is noticing there is a sticky tangled ball of pain running around in your head and body you cannot resolve this through the contents the thought
I literally do not have a better pointer for this than 1. notice a thought 2. look at its shape 3. ?????!!
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started seeing massage reels and the way muscles keep shaking is incredibly surprising 1. reminds me of trauma release 2. wonder how it ties into vasocomputation
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biggest tragedy with vertical video is that it ruins the composition. like there's no space for context in the shot, nor movement
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introducing my aunt to substack and holy shit is their onboarding so annoying wayyyy too much bro
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oh... culture is mimesis
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the dao talks about this
During the six months I worked with my second training case in therapy school, my client found a girlfriend, got a job, and moved into his first apartment. On our last session together he gave me my favorite compliment: “I’m not sure you did anything.”
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honestly this makes the whole "ivy-league drop out ex-big tech now working at a startup and raising funds" script more legible
Btw people don’t want “anyone” for a job these days They want a rockstar person that is a stud with a good history that will take a DOWNGRADE for the role It sounds crazy but I s2g I have seen this so much
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I'm fascinated by the rise of frictionmaxxing as a response to a frictionless life. We engineer away inconvenience, only to discover that some of the friction we removed was part of what made life feel alive in the first place
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the default marketing advice is sell painkillers, which does work I'm curious what things would fall under catalysts
Replying to @nosilverv
nah not quite, maybe more like a catalyst, reducing activation energy. Concentration without sila is possible, but you're making it harder on yourself. Going with the flow of the moral universe is still highly advisable. People fight HARD when often less is more
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e.g. buying kitchen appliances, stocking the pantry, making a meal plan are all catalysts for healthy eating that make it easier what else is a catalyst
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typically use the browser for reading pdfs. had a big ass pdf that refused to open on Brave, so i downloaded sutrapdf and that thing is so lightweight fuck adobe pdf
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as much as I love linux, I'm too lazy to figure out how to use wine for gaming
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honestly surprising how you organically end up learning the history of a field if you care enough about it
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like modern body building is so young that we know Eugen Sandow and have photos of him, guy didn't have machines back then also TIL that plein air painting started getting popular in 1841 when they invented paint tubes
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the great: we finally got nested quote tweets! the bad: long tweets and everything around it kills readability the interesting: this is probably the first depth focused threading template
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minesweeper and sudoku are manual decompression through logical deduction
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this is how they made the tower of babel
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me: hmm, there's a lot of overlap between therapy methods. would be nice to have a framework that encompasses them all and allows for translation oh no this would be another framework
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tempo is such a strange thing speed things up, and you start to get flow. speed it up too much and you get panic and frustration instead slow things down and you get relaxation and tai chi. slow it down even more and you start to get boredom
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speaking for myself, I feel like this is a major part of avoidant attachment styles like why be with someone who makes me feel more lonely
it's funny how profound loneliness is something i've only ever felt when in dysfunctional connection with someone, never when truly alone
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honestly one thing I like about advertising is that it's sort of a scam filter like 1. they have enough money to spend on ads 2. advertising platforms have a ton of rules and legal oversight
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been reading a few more substacks and it feels slightly clearer why I don't write often because of my writing style and how it's different
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1. I want my writing to have a clear goal (e.g. explain this idea, how to use it, and fix common mistakes or gaps.) I don't want to have an exploration with tons of digression
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a surprising thing about being online is that if you post hard enough about one thing, you become the guy for that thing & you get a lot of benefit from that ppl tagging you in relevant posts, ppl seeking your opinion on the thing, & you can set up a coaching practice too
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not interested in setting up a coaching practice, but this is encouragement for myself and others to post more about what interests you
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