Evan

anthology of experiences and vibes -- eng @Plaid 🇺🇲🇮🇩

[Evan @evan_limanto]

tired of scaling compute and storage, pivoting to scaling playfulness and taste

[Evan @evan_limanto]

a leaf turns orange, another day passes, and another follows suit 🍁

[Evan @evan_limanto]

made me think a lot about things in the world that exist at a depth beneath the superficial, like process knowledge, esoteric practices, undescribed subtexts, ineffable feelings, social dynamics

what a rich subtle and beautiful world out there, patiently waiting to be discovered

[Evan @evan_limanto]

recently learned about the japanese concept of kuuki wo yomu, or "reading the air" — usually used in the context of relationships but I broadly interpret it as honing a keen intuition for sensing the hidden, buried, and obfuscated

[Evan @evan_limanto]

racing a bike through central park at 25mph in the enclosing depths of a somber evening is the daring primordial chase of a prey through a dark forest that I never knew I needed

[Evan @evan_limanto]

jk maybe harvest moon and not stardew valley, i still like having capitalism's incessant march reaping profits and innovation

[Evan @evan_limanto]

if this microplastics thing is real do we all just slowly reverse ourselves back to the stardew valley agrarian lifestyle

[Evan @evan_limanto]

we spend an inordinate amount of time trawling through the noise of the modern information sphere and reasoning incrementally from personal experience instead of being pointed to the hidden trapdoor that allows teleporting to the final boss

[Evan @evan_limanto]

tragic how information dissemination patterns and social incentives in the modern age crowd out the consumption of Lindy knowledge, practical wisdom distilled over multiple millenia amidst turbulent societal changes

feels like the greeks and hindus figured a lot of life out a while back so maybe a life cheat code is to simply copy and extend them??

[Evan @evan_limanto]

seems apt to spend lots of time seeking out "masters" from unbroken lineages who could directly convey the authentic sort of yogic and socratic practices

[Evan @evan_limanto]

"We regard a piece of gold and a clump of clay or a beautiful person and an unattractive individual with the same even-temperedness." - the deeper dimension of yoga

sublime.

[Evan @evan_limanto]

favorite new term: phronesis

[Evan @evan_limanto]

you become a mega ditto with many mini dittos inside

[Evan @evan_limanto]

kegan's theory of development seems to be mostly about.. applying rationality and bayesian reasoning to all aspects of life?

[Evan @evan_limanto]

every day I wake up forgetting who I am and find myself needing to prompt engineer myself into existence and being

[Henrik Karlsson @phokarlsson]

When I had kid I realized having a narrower life can be richer than a life filled with variety and change

[Evan @evan_limanto]

haven't had so much fun gorging on a book in a while, until Babel by @kuangrf, which deeply satisfies various itches through splendidly woven themes— English culture, Oxford student life, teenage explorations of identity, depictions of a pre-Opium War world, philological nerdsnipes, dynamics of colonialism, magic, heartbreaks and deaths

[Evan @evan_limanto]

this gold piece never gets old
https://t.co/h0Rxvig1ia

[Evan @evan_limanto]

a problem with the consumption of tech-enabled media today - twitter, instagram, news: the medium insidiously suckers the consumer in, creating isolated mental contexts that subconsciously shifts their contextual awareness away from natural reality into artificial realities.

the boundaries between these realities fade, and hierarchies of value dissipate. it takes a lot of intentional effort to discern and assign relevance levels to influencer produced hype videos or click bait thought leader tweets.

you might counter, "why are artificial realities bad?". to the extent that technology advances over time, civilization will have persistent primitives to support the continuity of these artificial realities, such that they become "natural" over time.

we can treat digital technology as tools to be wielded towards certain outcomes, or as seamless extensions of our conscious experiences. everyone makes a decision on this at some point.

a pile of mumbo jumbo that's probably hackneyed at this point but feels eternally relevant, maybe this is the long-form vs short-form content argument idk

[François Chollet @fchollet]

In science and engineering, I feel like having a sense of aesthetics is dramatically more useful than being marginally more intelligent

[Evan @evan_limanto]

nothing beats a slow, sunny sunday with the sweet sounds of oldies like the beatles and eagles