amalgamous

Walking in nature, meditating & reading. Art a bit. Was tech entrepreneur, user researcher, & briefly a swiss chocolatier

[amalgamous @0xAmalgamous]

What's going on in the UK re: privacy is deeply concerning

[Signal @signalapp]

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://t.co/VdWe9uhi8p

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"We favor the sensational and the extremely visible. This affects the way we judge heroes. There is little room in our consciousness for heroes who do not deliver visible results—or those heroes who focus on process rather than results." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[amalgamous @0xAmalgamous]

Tropical heron spotted in UK for first time as more exotic birds arrive to thrill birdwatchers
https://t.co/7N5SeIGpEo #heron

[amalgamous @0xAmalgamous]

Last night's sky

[amalgamous @0xAmalgamous]

Carl Jung on avoidance

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Carl Jung on avoidance...

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

I use the words physical hygiene and emotional hygiene. We should pay equally important attention to the hygiene of our emotions. Physical hygiene keeps us physically fit — but full of anger, what use is that? Real hygiene is emotional: peaceful, compassionate emotion. That is the real inner hygiene.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Love isn't finding the perfect person, it's choosing to see what’s good and beautiful in an imperfect one.

[amalgamous @0xAmalgamous]

Strawberries are not berries but bananas are. I am as surprised as you

[Signal @signalapp]

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://t.co/VdWe9uhi8p

[amalgamous @0xAmalgamous]

@DylanoA4 Who ran out of breath before the end?

[jo johnson @josbjohnson]

your life doesn’t suck you’ve just been inside all day

[amalgamous @0xAmalgamous]

#meditation

[amalgamous @0xAmalgamous]

Returned to silent meditation this November. Almost everyday from 15-30 mins. 14 consecutive days yesterday

[amalgamous @0xAmalgamous]

154 consecutive days.

Introduced irregular morning sessions, usually an evening session follows too.

Recognised a meditative state engaging automatically throughout the day and the conscious ability to not allow feelings to become me https://t.co/YlcsSTdeeT #meditation

[amalgamous @0xAmalgamous]

Yesterday's silent meditation session lasted 1h29m31s

[amalgamous @0xAmalgamous]

@balajis

[amalgamous @0xAmalgamous]

It's in the trees

[amalgamous @0xAmalgamous]

Yesterday's evening walk

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.”

― Arthur C. Clarke

[amalgamous @0xAmalgamous]

I think about this often

[amalgamous @0xAmalgamous]

Il n'y a qu'un bonheur dans la vie, c'est d'aimer et d'être aimé

[amalgamous @0xAmalgamous]

+1

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Society was built to make money.

Indifferent to your health and sanity.

For example, we did not evolve to:
+ sit 10 hours a day
+ have our attention fractured 300 times daily
+ compare ourselves to millions of others
+ travel 9 time zones in 13 hours
+ tolerate sounds above 85 dB causing hearing loss
+ outsmart algorithms hijacking our reward system
+ breathe fine particulate air pollution
+ live under 16+ hrs of artificial light a day
+ have 3 courses of antibiotics before age 2
+ eat ultra-processed foods for 60% of daily calories
+ consume 17 teaspoons of added sugar a day

So if you're feeling down in the dumps, maybe fatigued, a little or a lot depressed, anxious, that's why.