David Glass

Current obsessions: animals, learning, moving water, nonduality. Co-Finder of @junglelearning_ building at @fdotinc
Active on substack, not here for now

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I’m seeking to identify what’s meaningful and fulfilling for me in the pursuit of understanding myself and of gradually handcrafting an intentional existence

So, I’m starting a running list here to note each unique source of meaning as I experience it…

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@gabriela_trueba hyped

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@InfiniteJulian0 it's already been super fun seeing all the different ways people are using in these few days

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@InfiniteJulian0 anything for looove

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There is more to the Earth than humans
There is more to the universe than Earth
Why not use the age of the universe to count the years?

I will refer to this year as 13.8B-2026

For me this framing makes me feel a similar kind of awe as looking out at the ocean or the night sky

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2026 is an arbitrary year.

It's an anchor that creates an implicit feeling that everything is new and that things before 0 were less important.

Humans have anatomically been around for 300,000 years.

But to use 300k still contains a self centered blindness.

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@theRJIyer Love your reflection and commitment to that edge

It reminds me of something I heard last week: you're probably correct in how someone will interpret or initially react to something, but where people go wrong is in thinking they know how the person will feel after that

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One thing this makes me wonder is if this could be a wonderful role for education to play. We consume and create more than ever now. Creating a regular practice of critical feeling and thinking on what you actually like and resonate with could have mega lifelong impacts

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Banger Brian Eno interview "What is it that I really like? Being able to answer that is the most important question. We're being told probably about 12k times a day what we ought to like, what other people like, what some people would prefer that we like."
https://t.co/1WSSWQDE2G

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"you should pay attention to that. You should think why do I like that, what does that mean that I like that thing, what does that connect me to that is so important to me?"

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Still love me some good ole dirt, but able to feel more connected to concrete when I think of it this way. Like nature in weird clothes

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Random realization

I thought concrete was this lifeless inorganic stuff, but I think I was wrong

It's natural ingredients: gravel, sand, water, air, concrete (which is just limestone and clay). And then mixed & awkwardly applied in a uniform way

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Corpses become food for worms and the worms poop it back out, nourishing the soil which feeds the plants.

When a relationship/job/class/anything ends, it’s not a blank restart. Our past experiences become the fertilizer that shape our next actions and interpretations of reality.

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“Wherever there are decay and repose, there begins to be soil." There is harmony in the cycle of life. And harmony is beauty. Things grow from the dead.

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@juliapintar big on #5. Working on long term projects that I enjoy the day to day of but also making sure I'm experimenting on increasing the joy and playfulness on the parts that are boring or stressful

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@claudeai This slaps. Gonna go tinker some more now

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@danielbelfort Love it!!

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@jeffreyando Love the beginner's mindset

My take:
They aren't Ls in the sense of Losses. They are Ls in the sense of Learnings.
It's not that you lost. It's that you discovered a nuance. You built a better map of the land.

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My favorite way to take the doom out of doomscrolling recently is to pick a tweet I saw that struck a chord and write out what I agree vs disagree with about it

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It's funny how profound discoveries feel obvious once you discover them

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When I feel frustrated with the thing I'm working on (that beautiful design, a banger video, etc) it’s often bc I'm putting too much pressure on this specific attempt to succeed

Once I notice, I loosen my grip & find fun in trying something out & seeing what I can learn from it