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I like talking about Zen’s historical record
Oh my god, I love being alive right now. I just found a Chinese Mandarin course that focuses on comprehensible input instead of grammar (think how you learnt as a baby vs. how they tried to get you to learn french in school), I am incredibly excited.
April 20, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Oh my god, I love being alive right now. I just found a Chinese Mandarin course that focuses on comprehensible input instead of grammar (think how you learnt as a baby vs. how they tried to get you to learn french in school), I am incredibly excited.
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Zhaozhou's "Good thing not as good as NOTHING".
Shocking or easy to dismiss?
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Shocking or easy to dismiss?
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r/zen post of the week: 1-12-25 || Zhaozhou's Nice Things We Can't Have
#Post(s) in Question Post: The master was leaving the main hall when he saw a monk bowing to him. The master struck him with his stick. The monk said, "But bowing is a good thing’” The mas...
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January 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Zhaozhou's "Good thing not as good as NOTHING".
Shocking or easy to dismiss?
sites.libsyn.com/407831/1-12-...
Shocking or easy to dismiss?
sites.libsyn.com/407831/1-12-...
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Someone recently asked me what's the point of having two or three buttons on a tailored jacket if the bottom-most button isn't meant to be fastened? It's easier to understand style if you think of it in terms of social language, not purely as function. Let me give you some examples. 🧵
January 8, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Someone recently asked me what's the point of having two or three buttons on a tailored jacket if the bottom-most button isn't meant to be fastened? It's easier to understand style if you think of it in terms of social language, not purely as function. Let me give you some examples. 🧵
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Chomsky is famous for his phrase "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" as an example of a sentence that's grammatically correct but semantically nonsensical. Dress is a form of cultural communication and every aesthetic has its own "rules" to communicate ideas.
Rules, shmules
Like a lot of stuff in classic men's dress, the rule of "no white after Labor Day" is rooted in class dynamics during the early 20th century. Many questions can be answered by "what is the aesthetic?" and "who set the rules?" 🧵
December 31, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Chomsky is famous for his phrase "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" as an example of a sentence that's grammatically correct but semantically nonsensical. Dress is a form of cultural communication and every aesthetic has its own "rules" to communicate ideas.
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crazy story. Trump tried to overthrow the government of Venezuela, and the attempt was so crack brained that even the torturer Gina Haspel dragged her feet at the CIA www.wired.com/story/trump-...
The Untold Story of Trump's Failed Attempt to Overthrow Venezuela's President
A successful CIA hack of Venezuela's military payroll system, insider fights for spy agency resources, and messy opposition politics: A WIRED investigation reveals a secret Trump-era attempt to oust a...
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October 31, 2024 at 1:23 PM
crazy story. Trump tried to overthrow the government of Venezuela, and the attempt was so crack brained that even the torturer Gina Haspel dragged her feet at the CIA www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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sincere answer:
food not bombs
soup kitchens
your local church's similar efforts
I know many people will say "that's not the same" but when you start doing it, you learn that it *is* the same. once you're doing that work it will significantly change not just how you feel, but how you see things.
food not bombs
soup kitchens
your local church's similar efforts
I know many people will say "that's not the same" but when you start doing it, you learn that it *is* the same. once you're doing that work it will significantly change not just how you feel, but how you see things.
October 26, 2024 at 9:24 PM
sincere answer:
food not bombs
soup kitchens
your local church's similar efforts
I know many people will say "that's not the same" but when you start doing it, you learn that it *is* the same. once you're doing that work it will significantly change not just how you feel, but how you see things.
food not bombs
soup kitchens
your local church's similar efforts
I know many people will say "that's not the same" but when you start doing it, you learn that it *is* the same. once you're doing that work it will significantly change not just how you feel, but how you see things.
I think it’s very interesting that these approaches presuppose you already know you are having a thought that doesn’t align with reality when you choose to move away from it. So why’d you have it in the first place?
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/th...
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/th...
Is Mental Flexibility the Key to Mental Health?
Rigid thinking may be a key driver of mental health conditions—and a key intervention point for treatment.
www.psychologytoday.com
October 24, 2024 at 1:43 AM
I think it’s very interesting that these approaches presuppose you already know you are having a thought that doesn’t align with reality when you choose to move away from it. So why’d you have it in the first place?
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/th...
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/th...
The Default Mode Network is crucial for creativity, episodic memory and metacognition, but if engaged with excessively can be correlated with anxiety and depression.
Activities like meditation, exercise and psychedelics may help, but people can overdo those too.
psilolab.co/articles/how...
Activities like meditation, exercise and psychedelics may help, but people can overdo those too.
psilolab.co/articles/how...
How to Turn off Default Mode Network: Exercise, Meditation, Psychedelics
The most widely studied of these RSNs is the default mode network or DMN. Learn about DMN and how it works.
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October 22, 2024 at 6:31 PM
The Default Mode Network is crucial for creativity, episodic memory and metacognition, but if engaged with excessively can be correlated with anxiety and depression.
Activities like meditation, exercise and psychedelics may help, but people can overdo those too.
psilolab.co/articles/how...
Activities like meditation, exercise and psychedelics may help, but people can overdo those too.
psilolab.co/articles/how...
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For the New York TImes, I wrote about the tyranny of the "for you" algorithm and how apps like Bluesky that provide algorithmic choice are what we need for a better future. (gift link):
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/o...
Opinion | The TikTokification of Social Media May Finally Be Its Undoing
A case involving TikTok may have opened the door to holding platforms liable for the damage they cause.
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2024 at 11:01 AM
For the New York TImes, I wrote about the tyranny of the "for you" algorithm and how apps like Bluesky that provide algorithmic choice are what we need for a better future. (gift link):
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/o...
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Zen Masters say you can’t be fixed because you’ve never been broken in the first place.
If someone is trying to convince you that you are broken, they are probably trying to sell you something.
If someone is trying to convince you that you are broken, they are probably trying to sell you something.
October 5, 2024 at 11:13 PM
Zen Masters say you can’t be fixed because you’ve never been broken in the first place.
If someone is trying to convince you that you are broken, they are probably trying to sell you something.
If someone is trying to convince you that you are broken, they are probably trying to sell you something.
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