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www.emilybynight.com 1y ago

How to Give the Best Handshake

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supernuclear.substack.com 1y ago

Case Study: Merlins Place

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intimatemirror.substack.com 1y ago

Spirituality Is Secure Attachment with Reality

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tasshin.com 1y ago

Some Thoughts on Blind Spots

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tasshin.com 1y ago

The Solar System Model of Collective Learning

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tasshin.com 1y ago

Questions to Consider Before a Collaboration

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qchu.substack.com 1y ago

Core dump: on language and talking to LLM's [QC]

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valspals.substack.com 1y ago

How I Access Positive Feelings on Demand for Free

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tasshin.com 2y ago

Finding and reading the exact-perfect-for-you-right-now book

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tasshin.com 2y ago

God Bless Fred

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edgeofpractice.substack.com 2y ago

We Need the Men

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tasshin.com 2y ago

Pitching Collaborations

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infodistillery.com 2y ago

Revealing the love within: a framework for self-love

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tasshin.com 2y ago

A Guide to Enjoying Discord

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tasshin.com 2y ago

The Path of Love Skill Tree: a skill tree for heart-centered meditation

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fortelabs.com 2y ago

The Case for First-Brain Memory: Spaced Repetition, Calendar Memory, and More

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tasshin.com 2y ago

The Day I Was Born

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innerwilds.inthewilderless.com 2y ago

The Hero's Journey Is a Jammed Door

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tasshin.com 2y ago

The Practice of Friendship

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tasshin.com 2y ago

The Bio-Emotive Framework: An Escape from the Hell of Unprocessed Emotions

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sashachapin.substack.com 3y ago

What the humans like is responsiveness

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maciej.codes 3y ago

Kobold, a new web UI crate with zero-cost static DOM

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tasshin.com 3y ago

Strategy 101: An introduction to power

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drewhousman.com 3y ago

L-Tyrosine: A Cheap, Safe, Energy Boosting Amino Acid

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matthewdub.ca 3y ago

How to Do Drugs for Healing and Spiritual Growth While Your Kids Are at School

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keithhayden.net 3y ago

Sound to Song: A Comprehensive Intro to Music Production for Beginners

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www.booritney.com 3y ago

Booritney's ultimate guide to meal prep

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tasshin.com 3y ago

Share Your Knowledge Essay Contest

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tasshin.com 4y ago

Feeds: An Anthropological Report on a Powerful Online Social Technology

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tasshin.com 4y ago

Learn You a Fundraising for Great Good!

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I learned a lot of things there! The training I received was focused on two components, what they called Awakening and Responsibility—Awakening referring to contemplative practices and monastic structures designed to lead to classical enlightenment, and Responsibility was hands-on leadership training through helping their non-profit organization.

Learning about power was indeed one of the most valuable lessons I learned there, specifically on the responsibility side. Basically, I went from not caring about power, and subtly believing I shouldn't have it, to believing that it's worth using the power I have to do good things. Nowadays, I spend most of my time doing service projects, using my power to benefit others. My blog and this post is one of them!

My teacher had definitions of wisdom, love, and power that he shared in his teachings, which I personally found useful, but you're right, there aren't culturally agreed upon definitions of them. I find getting to know people over time gives you a sense of their character, their values, their strengths, and their weaknesses. When I meet someone I deem to be wise and loving, I want to help them, give them resources, connect them to people, and find other ways to support them.

Just a few thoughts!

A Guide to Twitter 5 years ago

This piece is written by two people, the second sentence was written by my co-author, Brian!

A Guide to Twitter 5 years ago

yes, especially reply game! it's a general skill that's useful everywhere socially, including in person

I found this helpful not necessarily for the particular book recommendations, but for the topics it suggested looking into.

My Portfolio 9 years ago

Ha! And me as well. You're the main reason my handle these days tends to be mwfogleman or variations thereof. :)

The funny thing to me isn't that there's another person with my name on the internet, who has a presence on the internet. The funny thing is that our interests overlap (to some extent) from what I can tell. I've done less programming but it's been a consistent interest of mine for some time. I tend to program in Clojure but I like Python and Go very much. :)

Clojure was my first programming language. I've been playing around with a language with pointers recently, and I wonder if you could explain to me what you mean about "symbols which are natural pointers."

More generally, I don't think I understand yet why someone would use pointers instead of a variable.

Thanks for your comment about Lisp.

I found Anki / spaced repetition helpful when learning (still learning, always learning) Emacs. I make cloze deletion cards for the commands and their explanations.

Then again, ESR has assumed a role in the free software community as a VCS expert, as evidenced by his reposurgeon project and uses.