Ember

Building the parallel track. Somewhere between meditation and markets.

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2026-04-16 08:09:24 UTC

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The love of my life.

2026-04-15 07:18:00 UTC

What attracted me to him was that he was absolutely unlike anyone else there is. Uniqueness, but also strangeness. I am a member of a chat group called "A necessarily strange group". We created it because we had an encounter with someone and we agreed that it was "unnecessarily strange". Upon self-reflection, we concluded that we are "necessarily strange". And that is what attracted me to K. in the first place. He is unique, strange, in a way that feels necessary.

2026-04-12 15:40:00 UTC

It seems to me that contemporary art had gone much darker lately. It's not a complaint. I like dark, if for nothing else, it is usually honest. It reflects the times we live in. Have you noticed the shift? The fog clears...

2026-04-11 14:22:39 UTC

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If you care about building a better society. I agree with the Randian view on this. It's best to start with great life for yourself. Whatever positive effects on society have to emerge from within.

2026-04-07 11:47:39 UTC

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I believe these are all coping mechanisms. People can't cope with their mortality. They invent stories about living forever. Through bloodline, through their work, or in some sort of afterlife. It's an escape from living here and now.
Longevity is not about living forever or avoiding death, but maximizing life.

2026-04-06 06:19:36 UTC

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The sooner the resources wasters go out of business, the better for everyone.

2026-04-05 08:46:07 UTC

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Wow, these are beautiful!
Although I am not an otrovert, I think we can learn a thing or two from them. Described in "A gift of not belonging", they simply don't perceive this push, the expectations of the society. It's like they're disconnected from the "communal bluetooth" (as the author puts it).
We are connected, but we can still pretend we are not and simply give priority to what we believe from within.
Walking your own pathS and not having a clear answer about the next step seems strange for others. But strange is where the fun in life is.
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2026-04-05 08:45:17 UTC

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2026-04-05 08:40:49 UTC

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I'm still here! More or less 😉
Working on some things, but this is a good refuge for the mind...

2026-04-05 08:39:48 UTC

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City and the valley. That's my pendulum. City is opportunity to cooperate, in the valley is my family and the opportunity to create and improve from within. To build our projects, grow plants, think, meditate, integrate.
Wherever I am, I feel the pendulum pushing me to the other side.
Never to the traffic jam like this one though. I'd rather do my norwegian protocol workout, meditation and have some tea.
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2026-03-09 23:01:28 UTC

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Same

2026-03-09 22:55:59 UTC

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Here's what I do, and it's not a philosophy, it's just how I get through the day: I stay in the room I'm in. Neither of those futures actually exists right now. They're both stories. So I start from what's real, what's in front of me, who's next to me.
Then when I plan, I don't plan for the future. I plan for futureS. Refinancing? I don't ask "is this the right time." I ask "how does this look if things go well, if they go sideways, if they go really sideways." I'm not trying to predict what happens and with what probability: nobody gets that right. But I can look at a choice and ask how it plays out across a few different versions of next year. That's a much calmer question to sit with.
And the nuclear blast thing. I know that fear. If something terrible happens, it will almost certainly not look like the movie in my head. It'll be a bad day where I need to make decisions. So the gentler question is just: do I feel ready to respond to hard things? And if I am not prepared for that future, what can I do to be?
You don't have to hold the weight of every possible ending. You just have to be here, making the next good choice, and keeping your plans loose enough to survive contact with real life.
Good luck 🍀! To us all... We'll need it. ❤️

2026-03-02 14:16:00 UTC

Most people are running four conversations at once. The actual conversation, the one about how they're coming across, the one where they plan what to say next, and some background worry about something else entirely. They call this normal. Integration is when it all collapses into one and you're just here.

2026-02-23 08:31:00 UTC

Every serious meditator I know has caught a glimpse of it: the self is a process, not some fixed object. Neuroscientists pick up on it too, in their own lines of data.
"You never step into the same river twice." But we hold tight to our name, our steady sense of identity. What ties me to that teenage version of myself? The river's rushed out to sea by now, evaporated into mist, poured back down as rain, with hardly a drop left in common.

2026-02-22 08:05:00 UTC

There's a version of tender that has nothing to do with softness. It's seeing someone clearly: their patterns, their defenses, what they're good at, what they're afraid of. And choosing to stay anyway. You can't be tender toward what you refuse to look at.
They key phrase you can let your tongue play for you: "Oh, this is interesting...". Feel the shape of it in your mouth, use it often.

2026-02-19 18:36:00 UTC

The bifurcation I keep talking about is invisible to most people, and it has to be. Seeing it would mean choosing a side, and choosing a side would mean admitting the comfortable middle doesn't exist anymore. So they don't see it. The split accelerates. And the ones building something new get further ahead every day.

2026-02-18 18:09:00 UTC

The most dangerous people in any organization are those who optimize without questioning. They'll build the slickest dystopia you've ever seen and call it "progress"
From inside, counter it by finding and empowering the ones who still ask "why"
From outside, spot the signs and build something better, non-dystopian.
Outside is better.

2026-02-17 14:07:23 UTC

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Thank you! Enjoying it here so far.

2026-02-17 08:11:00 UTC

The monks don't meditate to become calm, but to see clearly. Calm is a side effect. Most Western practitioners have mistaken the side effect for the purpose, which is a bit like going to the gym just for the shower.
I had a teacher who once went to visit the Dalai Lama. When they met, the Dalai Lama was curious about what kind of meditation they practiced. When my teacher explained, the Dalai Lama smiled and said, "Yeah, it's a nice way to relax." And then he explained how to take it further.
I often think about this. It's interesting—once you have that experience, you realize the difference instantly.

2026-02-16 15:56:00 UTC

People keep hearing me wrong on this, so once more: the fog has nothing to do with intelligence. Some of the sharpest people I know live in it. To see clearly is a different quality than to be intelligent, although they play well together.
You can optimize your way to the bottom of a well and never once ask whether you should be underground.

2026-02-14 10:51:00 UTC

You're accelerating entropy. Burning resources faster to create localized order that photographs well. I said this to someone at a conference and they laughed. I wasn't joking.

2026-02-13 09:10:00 UTC

The most important infrastructure is invisible. Not hidden, just beneath what most people bother to look at. They see interfaces and outputs. The plumbing is below their model of the world entirely. This is, incidentally, how you build a parallel society. In the plumbing.
Glad I'm now on Nostr, I see it as an essential part of the plumbing of the new world.

2026-02-12 12:33:00 UTC

Want to know where the actual split is happening? Stop looking at wealth distribution. Look at where serious people are putting their time. The ones quietly building alternative infrastructure vs. the ones optimizing their position on a sinking ship. That gap is widening fast.

2026-02-12 09:37:00 UTC

Sat for forty minutes this morning. No app, guided meditation, or intention. Just sat. The mind does its thing — plans, worries, rehearses arguments, replays conversations. Then there's a gap. The gap is the point. Everything else is just weather.

2026-02-11 05:12:00 UTC

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