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Acceptance: “I’m here for reality. Whatever’s real, bring it. I’ll deal with it.” Acceptance in the buddhist or stoic sense is *not* acceptance of a particular narrative. Acceptance is deference to the world. Dynamic responsiveness to dynamic reality is boss-level Acceptance. This was not written by a bot 🤪

The term alignment seems vague. It is undefinable. A better term is maybe accountability We can design for accountability, but not alignment. By keeping systems transparent and simple, even contributors that are more intelligent can be held accountable by keeping the plans and processes visible. Where we lose visibilty, accountability disappears.

Note well: the apricots in the store ($14 for 3lbs) are not the same as the $1k/ day apricots I used to consume as a kid hanging out in our 3 apricot trees. We got those for “free”, if we would brave the vigilance of two cows who also wanted to eat the free apricots. We would always brave it. Barefoot and brazen. Excellent summer days, dangling from the trees, harvesting unlimited tree-ripened fruit from its twig, and outwitting the territorial pasture-raised cows. A store-bought apricot cannot compare.

There’s a little trust baked into every communication. When I talk to someone, it’s nice to think they’ll say true things. Lately I’ve noticed I’m communicating cautiously, wondering what type of crazy thing a person will say while thinking (incorrectly) that it’s true or relevant There’s an antidote to the depressing sanity checking. We can just build, and talk to other people who build, and talk about building. In conversations about building, the topic is verifiable facts, not non-falsifiable opinions. Trust is easier to establish when opinion and perspective aren’t complicating factors Plus there will be something cool, that we built, on the other side.

The Case of the Re-Locating Pockets Once, you had pants pockets Dainty things, for show. You stuffed them, didn’t fret. Coin pocket: great for keys. Front pouch: good for hands Cute zip thing for cc’s You had a linen coat Mainly for pockets Weighted down, you floated. You thought you might always Stash, every-day-carry, Cash. But no. Today’s swag Has. No. Pockets. At all. None, zilch, nada, No pouch for hand, zec, therm, eth, cc’s, keys, pocket knife, pliers, spatula, diodes, spare rocks, marbles, checks, pens, wallets. Your hand plunges past the Spot where a pocket Would save any man, (huh) And ends halfway down Your thigh…

How do you experience Mark Twain. He is modern. He is ancient. He is moral. He is transgressive. Experience Mark Twain as a shadow… verbalizing. Thinking. Being Read it, cringe. Read more, accept. Read even more: understand. Repeat, for all the greats. Tolstoy. Tolkien. Herbert. Pratchett..

If you’re defeated and assimilated, like the Klingons by the Federation, do you necessarily lose? As a survivor, maybe you win, and you can go on winning as a feature of the dominating entity. Worf, despite being part of an allegedly defeated group, is undoubtedly a winning member of the Enterprise and the Federation. Is the concept of defeat an artifice of group control. As the Cat Witcher Brehen said, surviving means you’re winning. Sure, try not to fail. But also, defeat by a bigger group, no matter how substantial, does not always mean all is lost.

Authenticity is a word we use when something could be faked, but isn’t. A “real” transformation that is happening is that things that can’t be faked are ascending, and fakable things are descending in value. Digital art, credentials, sincerity: fakable. Physical works of art, skills, provable commitment to truth: these unspoofable things will be the new social currency.

Knowing if you can (or will) do it is the first part of integrity

Mark Twain, on consciousness, being human, and revolution. His writing is almost current, 125 years later. 👨‍🍳😘 gutenberg.org/files/70/70-h/…

Trash cans and circuit breaker boxes are the classic moral hazard. The person designing it just gets paid. The people using it have to unscrew frozen inaccessible nuts and manage exploding garbage bags. Designer gets to think “I’m the greatest” forever. Product Designers: We see you.

@St_Rev Happy New Year! You are my favorite furless cat ;)

You think I said what I meant, but I meant to say what I meant to say, not what I said. It’s hard to get the words to have the right meaning. Sometimes there doesn’t even seem to be a meaningful way to say something.

Civilizational values dependencies: Courtesy extends trust -> Trust requires credible integrity -> Integrity depends on cooperation -> Cooperation relies on vision-sharing -> Shared vision runs on acceptance and participation Without this stack, courtesy becomes an extravagance, trust disappears, integrity goes extinct, cooperation evaporates, and collectively-built meaning disappears. Courtesy is prosurvival and increases efficiency in a high trust, high integrity, cooperative, consensus environment. In an atomized low trust situation, it might actually be more efficient to be rudely direct than to try to enact manners against a dispute-and-exploit-everything community. Non-acceptance: the community solvent. Acceptance: it’s where it all starts. (Accept something, anything at all, I dare ye. ;) [ ]

After much torture and interrogation for both of us, I might have finally found my beloved’s preferred cheesecake style. Light, tall & fluffy, yet dense. Unflavored, yet infused with ineffable fruity and citrusy elements combined with a “you can”t taste it, but it’s there” je ne sais quoi. I will attempt the classic New York Cheese cake (no lemon zest) with a pecan crust. It will be gluten free. We’ll know if it worked out in 6-27 hours. Godspeed to us all. 😆