Tips for a longer life
Lots of people focus on living an objectively longer life by eating well and exercising. But just as important is living a *subjectively* longer life, no gym required.
Maete-Space
When people gather for a shared interest they use meet-up to coordinate and have events, they are in meet-space and they are in social meet-up mode. And it’s also true that when humans of flesh and bone gather together the congregation occurs in so-called meat-space, as opposed to the cyber, the digital space we usually […]
The Sensemaker Workshop
Here’s a PSA for my new project in London: a retail venue entirely dedicated to coming together to discuss ideas in convivial surroundings. It’s called the Sensemaker Workshop. Sensemaking is the activity of making sense of life, ourselves and the world. The frameworks and assumptions we use about the world shape how we can understand […]
Book Review: Impro by Keith Johnstone
Keith Johnstone’s classic is applicable to much more than theatre work…
Escaping the tyranny of the ‘no new ideas’ myth
I was reminded recently that a few years ago I chose to reject the maxim that there are no new ideas to be had. This truism comes in a variety of forms. I remember hearing it most often when it comes to stories. Apparently humans are all basically alike and any story about humans has […]
Philosophy labels
Crisis I have this problem where I get up in the morning or go to bed and worry about what I’m doing with my life or what I like or what my purpose is. It happens really regularly, it pops up in my diary all the time when I review it. This is particularly […]
Philosophy of tool use
Causal Direction It has taken me a very long time to come to a fruitful understanding of tools. It was when I watched my artist housemate use a pen with a needle taped to the end in order to poke holes in clay that it finally fell into place. Tools are things that someone invented to […]
Crap Criticisms Of Elon Musk
I find criticisms of Elon Musk to be really annoying. They normally lie along two lines: Elon Musk is really mean and pushes workers too hard Elon Musk’s companies are not very profitable/they miss his crazy targets These criticisms are expressed in a sort of triumphant way, as if to say, “Checkmate! You cannot escape […]
The Future Of Sexuality
(cross posted from my personal blog) Sexuality In The Past Sexuality in the Anglo and European West for some recent previous generations was a simple affair. In the Victorian worldview, when categorising things was the preoccupation, the population was divided into two categories, men and women. If a person (a subject), founds themselves to be […]
More Strategies For Body Pleasure Management
This post is an investigation into the concept of pleasure or enjoyment as it relates to Kahnemans concept of the experiencing self and the remembering self. It is posted on this blog in the spirit of sharing strategies for pleasure, as mentioned by Sarah Perry in her essay Body Pleasure: I think that the best […]
Primer: Systems Don’t Work
At topical moments in time, I have been comparing my views on things to those around me. This serves to hold up a mirror to the way I think about things, compared to the way others think about things. In most cases I used to think the way other people do, but now, somehow, I […]
Emotionally Dealing With Cheaters
It’s time for some emotional maturity when it comes to cheaters in systems.
Polyamory as stage 4 bridge
Required reading This post uses a key framework: Chapman’s version of Robert Kegan’s theories of emotional, cognitive and social development, it is summarised here. This post is in dialogue with, and an expansion on, Chapman’s recent post about moving through stages 3, 4 and 5 in modern society (and the lack of support for it) here. […]
Community Units
Community Units It is important to have solutions to human life that are of the appropriate size and scale. Additionally, some solutions are only appropriate for one scale and some for another. Most save the world solutions I hear are brilliant for their context, and I think the hardest part of all is envisioning mechanisms […]
Cross+Pollination Zine
I made a thing! Yay! Amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it… it’s about the benefits rationalists and feminists could gain if they learned from each other. CrossPolli Issue 1
The Lazy One Is Well Prepared
“The lazy one is well prepared” – a proverb I’ve enjoyed contemplating. It means that taking small actions in the present allows for greater laziness in the future. Truly lazy people optimise their life for overall idleness, inactivity or in my case, flexibility. Laziness all the time does not foster opportunities for future laziness: money/food/shelter/goods […]
Life Isn’t Hard
In numerous ways, I have come to observe that people think something is more worthwhile if it is difficult to achieve, or even more strangely, if it is painful to achieve. Additionally, if ‘the norm’ is to do one type of thing and someone comes up with an easier thing that achieves broadly the same […]
