This may seem like "woo woo" nonsense but if you want to alter the world around you, then you need to do this:
Everyday for the past 3 month I've written in cursive the story of my future self.
I write over and over that I already have the life I want want. More clients, more income, more success.
And guess what?
Everything I write freaking happens.
Do with this information what you want, but there is something powerful behind scripting your own future.
This may seem like "woo woo" nonsense but if you want to alter the world around you, then you need to do this:
Everyday for the past 3 month I've written in cursive the story of my future self.
I write over and over that I already have the life I want want. More clients, more income, more success.
And guess what?
Everything I write freaking happens.
Do with this information what you want, but there is something powerful behind scripting your own future.
@alexrmoskowitz i think reading this thinking about the humanities makes a lot of sense. You and I both have an idea of what 'pop science' means - oversimplification. But theres a lot of mystification in so many sectors of humanities fields that has to stop if they are to survive
Academics write for each other, not for people.
Steven Pinker has spent over four decades doing the opposite, and thinks current academic writing is "enormous wasted effort."
"There's an awful lot of brilliant work, really smart people in academia. Why are they doing it? Just to entertain each other? Taxpayers pay for it. It should be accessible. Why should I have to read a paragraph five or six times?
It gets under my skin when academics devote so much brainpower into the scholarship and then just blow off the essential task of letting the world know what you've done."
Open Reel Ensemble performs a trio piece on the Jigakkyu, a custom folk instrument that generates shimmering analog sounds by bowing magnetic tape stretched across bamboo frames, with playback controlled via reel-to-reel tape recorders, August 2025.
recently I saw an art exhibition that truly made me both laugh and cry: a retrospective of a painter I had never heard of before, Mexican surrealist Alfredo Castañeda (1938-2010). Every painting felt like an "instant classic," as if it had always been part of the canon
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@writersdawn@Romy_Holland@nxonecropolis probably the framing here is an issue. Will someone who wants to start a family but hasn't yet have those feelings? Probably. But is the answer to those feelings in all cases to have a family? Absolutely not. My point is, your feelings are incidental to the decision.
@Romy_Holland@nxonecropolis it shouldn't be your motivation at all. It shouldn't be a factor. I cannot overstate this enough - it should not be a factor in the decision. I take your point, but parenthood is a catastrophically bad example of what you're talking about and people WILL misinterpret this
@rainbowmackrel Knives and forks are the tools by which you sustain yourself. You don't want a relationship where you sustain each other. You want to help each other to sustain yourselves.
@rainbowmackrel if you can't stop ruminating about ur shit life then i recommend the mantra of 'wider, not deeper' ie. try to think more broadly instead of drilling down into things, its helping me to relax a bit. also find free bullshit to go do OR COME VISIT >:(
@Sauers_ @3ric5chnell @ciurkciruk It's an interesting idea. I don't know what a complete configuration of '(human) thought' would look like, but I don't think you could find it in any dictionary. Thought is an anthropocentric word, and maybe we will need a different one for AI - 'inference' isn't sufficient