Di /daɪ/

Moved to design the invisible + visible. Let's talk complexity work + contemplative practices + machine learning + weird metaphysical stuff. She/her.

[Di /daɪ/ @bardobabby]

Starting to think that perhaps the "secret" to meditation is to be ok with being bored...

[Di /daɪ/ @bardobabby]

@Criterion Is there any way to apply the Black Friday discount to gift subscriptions?
Currently when I select the gift option, the promo disappears.

[Jim Irving @arealjim]

My personal approach to effective altruism is meritmaxxing, and right now the ODF has a 2-for-1 special on dharma-per-dollar. If you're looking for good karma, it's an amazing deal

[Di /daɪ/ @bardobabby]

@babieswithb a dash of chili crisp oil / Lao Gan Ma and now you got yourself an ✨Asian✨ salad

[Di /daɪ/ @bardobabby]

When was the last time you experienced a first time? What was it?

[Di /daɪ/ @bardobabby]

@Memetic_Mystic Yₐy

[Di /daɪ/ @bardobabby]

The three closest approximations of ego death are meditation, psychedelics, and clown

[Di /daɪ/ @bardobabby]

@cxgonzalez @exgenesis hmm I dunno, heard he's a mid baby

[Di /daɪ/ @bardobabby]

@round I'd never seen this particular Hopper before, and I'm just stopped still by how moving this painting is. Thank you 🙏

[anita @neats29]

the surrender move is not “let go” it’s “let it take over for a second”

[Di /daɪ/ @bardobabby]

Yesterday I learned about the "photo-taking impairment effect" from @billardkarr, how taking a pic of an event or object reduces one's memory of it compared to simply observing it

Today I received this from my @WeCroakApp

"It is enough"

[Di /daɪ/ @bardobabby]

The art of facilitation, in a nutshell

[attentionmech @attentionmech]

People who speak for everyone's best interest, usually cut through bullshit.

People who speak for own self-interests, usually make things complicated.

[Di /daɪ/ @bardobabby]

.@LeRoyDesCimes's brilliant thread reminds me exactly why this is one of my favorite shirts

[Louise 🔸 @LeRoyDesCimes]

The ugly truth of community building is that its prized commodity is Cool People. You attract people by telling them Cool Person is coming to your thing, and don't you want a chance to gravitate in their orbit?

Which makes failure all too personal: you're just Not Cool Enough

[Di /daɪ/ @bardobabby]

In leaving small group conversations that you were actively part of, is it better to acknowledge that you're gonna wander off, or better to French exit?

[Di /daɪ/ @bardobabby]

The things you find cringe are the things you actually need to grow

[Maebичка @maebichka]

this great @dreamyweather thread articulates the general, & inevitable, phenomenon of "ppl leaving the broad top-of-funnel space to go hang out in more intimate spaces"

the very first time i heard abt this was yrs ago when i started going to NYC rat meetups and asked @yashkaf (a very famously rationalist New Yorker) if i'd see him there; he said he hadn't gone in years. at the time i didn't understand..what do you mean you don't go to meetups *for the specific thing you like* anymore and just hang out with friends [who you met at the meetups]??

[Di /daɪ/ @bardobabby]

@9chabard same energy

[Di /daɪ/ @bardobabby]

marketing works because we're a sucker for shiny heuristics

[Di /daɪ/ @bardobabby]

@michae1becker @nosilverv https://t.co/PtlHePMExB

[Cedar You @our_decay]

I like exercise names like “Romanian deadlift” or “Bulgarian split squat.” The addition of an Eastern European country adds a certain gravitas. I’m gonna invent something called the “Moldovan pushup”

[Di /daɪ/ @bardobabby]

still haunted by @exgenesis calling Hadestown "mid" and "for babies", after I shared it's my favorite musical which I've watched and cried three times to now

it's me, I'm a mid baby