Dean Larsen

wisdom patterns || wise mediums || What does it take to Thrive in these modern times?

[Harrison Schenck @FractionalList]

Subjects that should be mandatory in schools:

- Taxes
- Coding
- Cooking
- Insurance
- Weightlifting
- Self-defense
- Survival skills
- Social etiquette
- Public speaking
- Personal finance
- Car maintenance
- Basic home repair
- Stress management

What would you add?

[nora bateson @NoraBateson]

The internet needs a new vibe.

Not grumpy. Not sales. Not cats. Not food pics. Not polarizing.

#affectionforlife

[nora bateson @NoraBateson]

Ideas, phrasings, poetry, tones and textures of communication...

For years I have been trying, in my way, to add some probiotics to the epistemological digestive system that social media is.

It's not much. But it's something.
A little warmth.

[michael mezz @michaelmezz]

listen to her explain the Van Gogh soup protest.

she’s got a point, no?

[Dean Larsen @Deanthrive]

@anthilemoon @anthilemooon Yea I got caught out- they reached out about trading crypto

[Dean Larsen @Deanthrive]

We have limitations in the 2d / #web3 (screen) space #bretvictor we still fundamentally are disconnected from the “real world”, MR or BCI interfaces could get caught in the #immersivefallacy though thinking like #sandtalk #oralcultures might inspire a new medium

[Santi Younger @SantiYounger]

1/11🧵 Does Tana replace Obsidian? = No.
Does Tana replace Logseq? = Maybe.
Does Tana replace Roam? = Yes.
Does Tana replace Notion? = Definitely.

@tana_inc vs @obsdmd vs @logseq vs @RoamResearch vs @NotionHQ
🧵👇🧵

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

Maslow's pyramid sort of inverts at the top.

Once you've figured out most of your needs, the possibilities in your life should expand, not contract.

[Ruben Laukkonen @RubenLaukkonen]

I have a wild ambulance IV #ketamine story that I feel like I have to share. I told it to my students in a class on the plasticity of #consciousness and they insisted it needs to be public knowledge. So, somewhat apprehensibly, here it is. Strap in 📜:

[Visa is doing marketing consults (see pinned!) @visakanv]

putting a smartphone in everyone's hands set off the largest seismic activity in the history of humanity's collective nervous system. it's still ongoing and we are still dealing with the absolute clusterfuck of it all. nobody is "qualified" to "handle" this

[Elena Lake 🌿 @relic_radiation]

words are not our first language

[nora bateson @NoraBateson]

When my father died I learned that relationships continue to grow, shift & learn after death...The relationship does not end w death. Having experienced this I am noticing how I am in other relationships that will also continue after those beings are no longer physically w me.

[Viktor Zaunders @zaunders]

This amazing piece of socio-technical infrastructure is one of the things that exite me the most with @holochain. It is why building modular apps will work and why people will want to use them. It is the glue, the cooperative advantage that makes it work

https://t.co/ie2aEmLM57

[Kahlil Corazo 🧭 Explorations.ph @kcorazo]

GPT-3 is finally in Roam Depot!

My first run: it suggests some future features!
#1 AI-assisted search
#3 AI-assisted linking of blocks

Thanks @Lay_Bacc!

[Dean Larsen @Deanthrive]

https://t.co/Q0PLtgEhun

[Venkatesh Rao ☀️ @vgr]

Pie chart of humanity:

Generative and energized but in an insane alt reality: 42%

Some form of long-haul debilitating malaise: 23%

Cripplingly depressed reality-grounded: 15%

Too dumb to function: 12

Too smart to function: 5%

Deranged messiahs: 2%

Murderously psychotic: 1%

[Zohar Atkins @ZoharAtkins]

Belief has zero marginal cost while ritual observance does. This is one reason Christianity went viral and Judaism remained small. Christianity is like Software, Judaism like Hardware.

[Robin @codeOfRobin]

Imagine coming into this bum ass world and your parents give you OKRs and KPIs in a notion doc

[Rick Benger @rickbenger]

Maxims about community/thriving that I keep returning to:

1. most people need more people