# open mind (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover open mind. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Climate Con: CO₂, Pollution, Power and the Politics of Going Green](https://openmindcollective.substack.com/p/the-climate-con-co-pollution-power) _2026-08-29 · The Open Mind Collective · The Open Mind Collective_ Climate changes. CO₂ is essential to life. Pollution is real. But are we being asked to sacrifice freedom and prosperity for policies that may achieve far less than we're promised? ## [Consider Trying a New Approach](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/consider-trying-new-approach.html) _2026-08-29 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ Sometimes success requires persistence and hard work. Sometimes an ingenious new approach is needed. Or it may be time for a whole new beginning. Think, and choose wisely whether to try harder or to try something new. The very nature of the world is constant change. You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it; then the assumptions on which you based your plan change - they always do. The… ## [Don't Expect People to be Logical](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/dont-expect-people-to-be-logical.html) _2026-08-28 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgment of the intellect is only part of the truth. - Carl Jung Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later. - Bono When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. - Dale Carnegie Humans do have an amazing… ## [Globe Earth and Flat Earth: A Comparative Investigation](https://openmindcollective.substack.com/p/globe-earth-and-flat-earth-a-comparative) _2026-08-27 · The Open Mind Collective · The Open Mind Collective_ Two competing models, the evidence behind them, and the question of how we decide what we know ## [Kindness is the quality that makes human life worth living](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/kindness-is-quality-that-makes-human.html) _2026-08-27 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ Kindness is perhaps the most essential quality of being fully human. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. - Joseph Joubert My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. - Dalai Lama Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. - Lao Tzu Kindness is the quality that… ## [The Myth of the "Self-Made Man"](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/the-myth-of-self-made-man.html) _2026-08-26 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. - Thurgood Marshall Ingratitude often hides behind a mask of independence or self-sufficiency. An assertion of being "self-made" is a rejection of God, one's ancestors, and society. Your Genes, Place of Birth, and Upbringing are God's Gift to You. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Those who have succeeded at anything and don't… ## [The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/the-ultimate-court-of-appeal-is.html) _2026-08-25 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. - Carl Sagan The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority. - Thomas Huxley What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on. - Jacques Yves Cousteau The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for… ## [Be Gentle, Be Generous](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/be-gentle-be-generous.html) _2026-08-24 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ In a gentle way, you can shake the world. - Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be generous; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. - Lao… ## [Our Vision is Biased by What We Expect to See or Fear to See](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/our-vision-is-biased-by-what-we-expect.html) _2026-08-23 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ Choose the World You See, and See the World You Choose. You have a choice about the perspective you take on life. See tragedy, and the world is tragic - see beauty, and the world is beautiful. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - John Lubbock It all… ## [Don't trust until trust is earned](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/dont-trust-until-trust-is-earned.html) _2026-08-22 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ It is wonderful to have Faith, but don't confuse trust with being gullible. Balance trust with conscious thought. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough. - Frank Crane Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. - African Proverb Trust yourself, then you will know how to live. - Johann Wolfgang von… ## [Ship everywhere from one CLI (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZTenNroLOfOf) _2026-08-22 · **Sponsored**_ One codebase, hosted runners, encrypted credentials, and automated submissions across stores ## [Be Patient and Gentle](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/be-patient-and-gentle.html) _2026-08-21 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it. - Lao Tzu Choose your battles wisely. While your core principles and your life goals are important, most of what you let upset you is not worth an argument or lost sleep. Take Lao Tzu's advice and become softer and more flexible. Patience, persistence, and perseverance. A little more each day, a little better each day. -… ## [The Challenge is to Become Your Greatest Self](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/the-challenge-is-to-become-your.html) _2026-08-20 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ Only when life is difficult, are we challenged to become our greatest selves. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Fall seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese Proverb It is not because life is difficult that we do not dare. Life is difficult because we do not dare. - Seneca All things at first appear difficult. - Chinese proverb Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty, remember that… ## [Open Mind, Clean Hands, Loving Heart](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/open-mind-clean-hands-loving-heart.html) _2026-08-19 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones. - Publilius Syrus You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do. - Anthony J. D'Angelo Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. - George Bernard Shaw Today's affirmation: I approach life with an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie… ## [Brainwashed? How Might You Know?](https://openmindcollective.substack.com/p/brainwashed-how-might-you-know) _2026-08-18 · The Open Mind Collective · The Open Mind Collective_ Opening your mind to the stories, assumptions and perspectives that shape what you believe ## [Life operates in subtleties rather than in absolutes](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/life-operates-in-subtleties-rather-than.html) _2026-08-18 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable. - George S. Patton Life only appears complicated when one is worrying. Relax, and life becomes simple again. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time. - Joan D. Vinge The curious paradox is that… ## [Trust the Science](https://openmindcollective.substack.com/p/trust-the-science) _2026-08-17 · The Open Mind Collective · The Open Mind Collective_ “Trust the science,” they say. ## [Seek Balance In All Things](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/seek-balance-in-all-things.html) _2026-08-17 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die. - Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 We have an obligation to live in harmony with God's creation. - Bruce Babbitt One has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself. - Jessye Norman A time for everything: a time to relax and a time to be busy, a time to frolic… ## [Viruses: What Do We Really Know?](https://openmindcollective.substack.com/p/viruses-what-do-we-really-know) _2026-08-16 · The Open Mind Collective · The Open Mind Collective_ Viruses, germ theory, terrain theory and the financial interests behind modern medical consensus ## [What Shape Is Our Earth?](https://openmindcollective.substack.com/p/flat-earth-globe-earth-does-it-really) _2026-08-16 · The Open Mind Collective · The Open Mind Collective_ Challenging the accepted globe model, exploring the flat-Earth argument and asking how much we can establish for ourselves ## [Man does not live to produce bread](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/man-does-not-live-to-produce-bread.html) _2026-08-16 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose. - Leonardo da Vinci All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. - Martin Luther King, Jr. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker. - Helen Keller Everything that is really great and… ## [International money transfers (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/DkWLcsaYzOy6) _2026-08-16 · **Sponsored**_ Send money to other countries and manage multi‑currency balances online. ## [Be at Peace with Nature](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/be-at-peace-with-nature.html) _2026-08-15 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. - Marcus Aurelius What is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? - Albert Camus Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. - Thomas Merton The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each… ## [THINK about new ideas, rather than either blindly rejecting or accepting them](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/think-about-new-ideas-rather-than.html) _2026-08-14 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ What is my purpose in sending these Daily Quotes and Inspirations, as I have been doing since 2008? Some of these messages are intended to provide a small measure of comfort, but most of these messages are intended to challenge my readers to deeper thinking. Short quotations/aphorisms are by their nature incomplete, and almost always present only one side of an issue. Long-time readers will also… ## [Ask Deeper Questions](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/ask-deeper-questions.html) _2026-08-13 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out. - Paul Kagame The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers. - Brian Greene Those who can see value only in tradition,... deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances. - Stephen Bayley In science the important thing is to… ## [Life is Complex. Don't Expect Easy Answers](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/life-is-complex-dont-expect-easy-answers.html) _2026-08-12 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ Willingly accept the complexity and the contradictions of life. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie You didn't get stamped out of a mold. You aren't a "black person" or a "white person," a "fat person" or a "skinny person," a "bad person" or a "good person." You are a highly complex human being with emotions, beliefs, capabilities. Each day you face challenges to your health, relationships, finances, and… ## [RSV](https://openmindcollective.substack.com/p/rsv) _2026-08-11 · The Open Mind Collective · The Open Mind Collective_ The RSV Vaccine: Ingredients, Actual Risk Reduction, Safety Evidence, Financial Incentives and What We Still Don’t Know ## [Review Your Daily Habits. Are They Supporting You?](https://blog.jlhuie.com/2026/08/review-your-daily-habits-are-they.html) _2026-08-11 · Unknown · Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes_ Is today the day to stop doing what doesn't inspire you, but has become a habit? Is today the day to begin new projects and a new way of life that truly inspires you? Are your habits moving you toward your life goals? Or are they keeping you stuck in place? - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the… ## [Digital Package Waste, Brand Visibility, and The Principle of Least AI](https://ingosteinke.substack.com/p/digital-package-waste-brand-visibility) _2026-08-06 · Ingo Steinke · Ingo Steinke, Creative Web Developer_ What do AI and travelling on a budget have in common? ## [COVID-19 Vaccination and Gastrointestinal Health: What Does the Scientific Literature Show?](https://openmindcollective.substack.com/p/covid-19-vaccination-and-gastrointestinal) _2026-07-06 · The Open Mind Collective · The Open Mind Collective_ Exploring the published evidence, emerging research and supportive approaches ## [Absences](https://ingosteinke.substack.com/p/absences) _2026-05-26 · Ingo Steinke · Ingo Steinke, Creative Web Developer_ Struggling to find the right words to recommend two unlikely books, Nelio Biedermann’s Lázár and Mia Couto’s The Cartographer of Absences, and what to expect from upcoming Open Mind Culture blog posts ## [Open Mind Cultures and the Future of my Substack Newsletter](https://ingosteinke.substack.com/p/open-mind-cultures-and-the-future) _2026-05-19 · Ingo Steinke · Ingo Steinke, Creative Web Developer_ I found a draft for a post where I wanted to share links and quotes and recommendations of reputable sources from New York City and elsewhere, including The New Yorker Mag, The New York Times, Washington Post, Verge/WIRED/Huffpost/whatever and The Open Mind Mag - and, last but not least, Open Mind Culture, my own blog. ## [Earn crypto for idle GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7rxs5ljDq6F4) _2026-05-19 · **Sponsored**_ Run one CLI, host Qwen/Llama/Mistral, and earn BTC, ETH, SOL, or USDC ## [Maybe the Body Doesn’t Keep the Score After All](https://openmindcollective.substack.com/p/maybe-the-body-doesnt-keep-the-score) _2026-05-16 · The Open Mind Collective · The Open Mind Collective_ A new neuroscience perspective on trauma suggests the brain may be predicting danger — not storing pain in the body forever. ## [Nicotine: The Molecule We Were Told to Fear](https://openmindcollective.substack.com/p/nicotine-the-molecule-we-were-told) _2026-05-16 · The Open Mind Collective · The Open Mind Collective_ Separating nicotine, tobacco, smoke and industrial cigarettes in a debate that has become far more nuanced than many realise ## [Why I Will No Longer Vaccinate Myself, My Family, or My Animals](https://openmindcollective.substack.com/p/why-i-will-no-longer-vaccinate-myself) _2026-05-05 · The Open Mind Collective · The Open Mind Collective_ A personal decision shaped by lived experience, risk evaluation, and a willingness to question routine care ## [Edward Jenner Revisited](https://openmindcollective.substack.com/p/edward-jenner-revisited) _2026-05-04 · The Open Mind Collective · The Open Mind Collective_ How Accurate Is the Mainstream Story? ## [Berlin Mags and Stacks, Cutesified Foxes and Neon Neukölln Photography](https://ingosteinke.substack.com/p/berlin-mags-and-stacks-cutesified) _2026-04-21 · Ingo Steinke · Ingo Steinke, Creative Web Developer_ Cutesification of the fox in pop culture, a real fox on crowded street in Berlin, and recommended blogs and newsletters for those getting tired of German press and social media. ## [Information Intoxication, Phone Under Water and other (un)pleasant Spring Surprises](https://ingosteinke.substack.com/p/information-intoxication-phone-under) _2026-03-12 · Ingo Steinke · Ingo Steinke, Creative Web Developer_ Beyond the Hype: Navigating Information Intoxication, the Craft of Web Colors, and the Resilience of Low-Waste Tech. ## [Pseudo-deep Indie Films and Books before Berlinale 2026](https://ingosteinke.substack.com/p/pseudo-deep-indie-films-and-books) _2026-02-10 · Ingo Steinke · Ingo Steinke, Creative Web Developer_ Mixed feelings and deception after disappointing films and books and decaying Western values looking for positive inspiration and sunshine in a world that needs de-icing ## [Accessibility Hushing and Fashion Week Diversity](https://ingosteinke.substack.com/p/accessibility-hushing-and-berlin) _2026-02-03 · Ingo Steinke · Ingo Steinke, Creative Web Developer_ Not excited about mainstream events like Fashion Week, Berlinale or Gallery Weekend? Discover exciting side events! In my blog: what's accessibility hushing? ## [2026 Trend Spotting beyond the Obvious](https://ingosteinke.substack.com/p/2026-trend-spotting-beyond-the-obvious) _2025-11-21 · Ingo Steinke · Ingo Steinke, Creative Web Developer_ Anticipating upcoming tech trends and color palettes for web design and web development in 2026: Astro, Accessibility, and irrelevant color trends? ## [Autumn in New York, Long Distance Flights and a Slight Second "Culture Shock"](https://ingosteinke.substack.com/p/autumn-in-new-york) _2025-10-27 · Ingo Steinke · Ingo Steinke, Creative Web Developer_ Trying to fall for fall in New York — travel impressions and thoughts about being a German in New York and why there's an alligator in the middle of the platform. ## [Back to Cool, Fractals, Second Hand September and is it still Summer?](https://ingosteinke.substack.com/p/back-to-cool-fractals-second-hand) _2025-09-17 · Ingo Steinke · Ingo Steinke, Creative Web Developer_ Notes about revisiting Fractals, React, reading recommendations, hot days at the lake and cool campaigns in Second Hand September 2025