Is this the Internet?
As I’m learning Adobe Illustrator I am confident asserting a theory of the underlying “skill set being exercised” in both visual “art” and being good at playing music I’ve understood for years (via jazz training) that really what you’re good at when you’re actually good at music is your ear aka listening . Playing an instrument is secondary/flows from that. And voila I in fact can play multiple…
This is a premise It goes hand-in-hand with the idea that illness recognized as illness tends to resolve We get taught frameworks that “we’re usually healthy” and that “being sick” is just a little “dip in the road” and then we “get back to normal” (with the help of things like medicine) Ya no All of us are quite ill You won’t be able to reason about what you’re observing as far as people’s…
This is very related to the mistake of thinking that things are physically spatial that aren’t First, “non-sagginess”: When someone is actually connected to reality, they get a lot of energy from doing so. It’s characteristic of reality that your interactions with it are very “rich” and enjoyable Whereas if a person thinks they’re interacting with reality but in fact are putting their energy into…
This is called a “logic flex” We have the idea that illness recognized as illness tends to resolve And so the converse of that idea is that “illness not recognized as illness doesn’t (necessarily) tend to resolve” We also have the idea that illness is the accumulation of unprocessed sh** So combining those two ideas (by in a math-y sense “substituting” that definition of illness into the first…
This is an exploration of a pattern that I’ve only vaguely come across in whatever languages (but may well be a known named thing?) that I’ll call the “fully populated collection” pattern, in the context of a Rust code-base Also a bit of a tutorial on Rust procedural macros , being applied to this pattern-exploration So we’ll start with the conceptual exploration but if you prefer you can jump…
This one is based more on “feel”/observation than straight-up logic It seems like a lot of things that people do are based on the underlying mistake/fallacy of thinking that they’re in some kind of “narrow”/small space When in fact reality is very very very spacious I think that thinking that the good is the absence of the bad is based on this mistake because it’s like you’re thinking that you’re…
Analysis as an “angle”/”activity”: Light-hearted. But that’s not a negative definition (ie “light-heartedness” doesn’t mean the absence of certain tones/”heaviness”, think of it more like a song with a light-hearted tone) The thing that that’s calling out is that people can start “weighing down” the activity (with what might be called “self-seriousness”) anytime you’d be thinking/talking about…
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I remember when this one “jumped out at me”. In Colorado in 2013 I was sitting around playing music with Elise and she said something like “I want this one to be like raw/stripped down” and I immediately saw what she didn’t understand about “how that works” In that specific case, the thing I could tell from how she intoned what she said was that she was thinking that “raw/stripped-down-ness” is…
In my opinion “respect” = “treating things as though they’re real” Life tends to punish you for not “showing respect” in that sense It does not reward random self-indulgent sh** Why do people do random self-indulgent sh**? Clearly it’s some form of illness Here the idea/mechanism that comes to mind is that storytelling is often the culprit