Word Soup is a web-log by Sebastian Ruf.
I’m in a process of letting go of a lot of habits related to people pleasing (or at least I hope I am, I’ll have to check back in a few months). One of the big ones is this desire to always say yes. That if I’m not always agreeing I will not have the love that I want. As soon as I saw that as a pattern of mine, I immediately started thinking about improv theater. Improv has been so transformative…
I went on my first meditation retreat in September (at the beautiful Wonderwell Mountain Refuge). It was a Buddhist retreat and I took it as a chance to dive into some further reading on Buddhism while I was there.
I’ve been practicing Tai Chi for over a decade and I’ve been having a strange problem for the last year or so. I’ve spent a lot of time building awareness in places like my feet and core (the bubbling well and Dan Tien, if you want to be technical).
You don’t have to blow up your life to be serious about change. This is the phrase that came to me a few days after reading another great post from Adam Mastroianni’s Experimental History.
I’m trying something new with my habit tracking. I, like so many others, find it easiest to set up daily habit tracking. It’s a simple expectation, just do the thing every day. Don’t let yourself miss more than one day, go go.
I’ve been thinking a lot about an idea from a post of Adam Mastroianni’s excellent substack Experimental History. He introduces the difference between diploma problems, which you can finish after enough work, and tooth-brushing problems, which require a little bit of work every day.
I’ve been obsessed with this clip from Limmy’s Show:
We Have Made Science!
I have a bad habit of reading to deal with anxiety so when I became a manager late last year I read like 13 management books in 6 weeks to prepare/sooth myself. This is a space for me to share the notes I took, I’m slowly transferring/rewriting the full set of notes from elsewhere.
I’ve been reflecting on the kind of writer I am after re-reading Venkatesh Rao’s Tips for Advanced Writing while gathering my list of writing resources. Rao separates writers into thinking-first writers (who care about the ideas) and writing-first writers (who care about the beauty of the language).