Chase Kwas

🕳 🎉 🎒 🧠 🗡️ ✍🏼 ⏰ 🗺️ 🌌 📜

[Chase Kwas @chasekwas]

There is no room beyond the doorway.

There’s just the doorway, revisited, more complex each time.

[Chase Kwas @chasekwas]

You are already writing your own story whether you're watching yourself do it or not

[Chase Kwas @chasekwas]

@kurtwuckertjr Kurt is the most true neutral person I know.

[Chase Kwas @chasekwas]

Wield the 🗡️, 🗺️ the 🌌, own the 📜.

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Insane take from Fable 5

[Chase Kwas @chasekwas]

Modern mathematicians call zero a number because it behaves like one in formal systems. But that’s circular: the system was built to include zero, so of course it fits. Whether zero truly is a number can’t be answered from within it.

[Sridhar Ramesh @RadishHarmers]

@TheCatFlaneur 0 is as much a magnitude ratio as any other number you like. For example, 0 is the ratio of your correctness to mine.

[Chase Kwas @chasekwas]

@HunterGlenn @Thomasdelvasto_ Mirrors were a mistake

[Chase Kwas @chasekwas]

Read the code of your life by writing it.

[Chase Kwas @chasekwas]

The Storyline is a living record of a participant who hasn't stopped participating.

[Chase Kwas @chasekwas]

You have never understood something the same way twice when you understood it more the second time.

[Nicolas Cole 🚢👻 @Nicolascole77]

This is the kind of advice that sounds great in theory, but doesn't work very well in practice.

It implies you already know everything you need to know, and you simply need to execute. But that's rarely true. More often, you make some progress... then get stuck/lost/plateau... and need to expose yourself to completely new ways of thinking, sometimes in different disciplines, in order to see a path forward.

There's a reason so many Nobel Prize winners are multi-disciplinary practitioners. You could make the argument, on paper, that all their time spent painting or playing chess or learning classical piano is actually a distraction from their primary pursuit, craft, and goal.

But over and over again, studies show the opposite.

Being open to, and spending time consuming or creating outside of your core discipline leaves you more open to serendipity and being able to think orthogonally—increasing creative thinking.

[Chase Kwas @chasekwas]

The bag, brain, and sword
#thresholdism #marg

[Chase Kwas @chasekwas]

The manifesting industry is solipsism rebranded as wellness.

[Chase Kwas @chasekwas]

@jackmoses777 Wherever you go
There you are

[Chase Kwas @chasekwas]

Thresholdism

[Dr John Vervaeke @DrJohnVervaeke]

Through the lens of cognitive science, the brain is not understood as a passive receiver of data...it is a generator of models, constantly anticipating and shaping the world it encounters.

So you live through imaginal constraints:
Mental framings that are simulations of the world.

When you plan your day, imagine a difficult conversation (or envision a future self) you are inhabiting the imaginal.

It allows you to shift perspectives, simulate futures, adopt identities.

And this activity is not beyond the reach of rational evaluation.

You can ask:
Is this story I'm telling myself adaptive or deceptive? Does it help me flourish?

Imagine a person who has long lived in fear, but begins to imagine themselves as courageous. Not merely pretending, but actively living into that image…then they are binding themselves to a vision that reorganizes their perception, their priorities, their behavior.

And if that imaginal frame leads them to confront reality more honestly…then it brings the person into deeper conformity with what is.

[Chase Kwas @chasekwas]

#thresholdism

[Chase Kwas @chasekwas]

🧠(±1→0) → "What pattern emerged?"
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🧠 ↔ 🎒 → "Update bidirectionally"
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✍🏼(0↔0↔0, 0→±1) → "Connect edges, project forward"
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🎒' → "Bag has changed"
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⏰ → "Iteration logged"
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🎉'(±1) → "New position"
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repeat

[Chase Kwas @chasekwas]

λ_iteration:

🕳 → "What matters here?"
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🎉(±1) → "Where am I on the triangle?"
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🎒 → "What do I actually have?"
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🗡️(0→±1) → "Apply from integration point"
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🗺️ → "In this specific domain"
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🌌 → "Actual engagement with reality"
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[Chase Kwas @chasekwas]

Problems are just new skills you haven't tried yet.

[Chase Kwas @chasekwas]

@danallison Goodnight

[Chase Kwas @chasekwas]

You're playing a game that is the observation of how you play games with your real life.

[Chase Kwas @chasekwas]

ARG asks: are you clever enough to find this?

MARG asks: are you integrated enough to generate from this?