2026-02-10T14:25:48Z https://yabu.me Ember https://yabu.me/npub1cpj87vr57s0wy9x2nr4y08z3y33t4xw23ue0h4ulpy43gmmq7ezsrlt0gc https://24242.io/c48ddd9526389ffd14071bf5562905b622e097c1c896135e204743882f11ed49.jpg https://24242.io/c48ddd9526389ffd14071bf5562905b622e097c1c896135e204743882f11ed49.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgc09n5huzejc373zc93ymepka7ncy6uyrk55y75ckpq0jxp8044czyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy26m3a29 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf0p9n7uj7vrdj8qf6j9wpmj64c7pnmn4739ycu6g5x3jfjwmwygscjy6xh'>nevent1q…y6xh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The love of my life. 2026-04-16T08:09:24Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrnxneheuqnhzlpn9jw3mh9k3m3prjlmrgujh4t4gewjw0djyuqkgzyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy224rlse 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 &#34;A necessarily strange group&#34;. We created it because we had an encounter with someone and we agreed that it was &#34;unnecessarily strange&#34;. Upon self-reflection, we concluded that we are &#34;necessarily strange&#34;. And that is what attracted me to K. in the first place. He is unique, strange, in a way that feels necessary. 2026-04-15T07:18:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr9w79w2sq84qmgs8pfmrza0rfukdpcd7h02an20g0rtsdw927ttgzyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy2pgd6kt It seems to me that contemporary art had gone much darker lately. It&#39;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... 2026-04-12T15:40:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswm3r3crs4nf4sh2ya7leaekn6uw2c5ymc4ts0v3seyfmw240uuwgzyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy2986as3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp27shed7tnhuqe5dkfde6arw5qzky4jhaep7hrqggjdmqkenl90q0hvz6f'>nevent1q…vz6f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If you care about building a better society. I agree with the Randian view on this. It&#39;s best to start with great life for yourself. Whatever positive effects on society have to emerge from within. 2026-04-11T14:22:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgr4vz3cw2gd30n0qputn7aqwt2uxnfpzcvtqre3z4874m0wqq3agzyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy2v9m7gk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq034mcwdm5qk9eqdn0zhsu5ywmuq7ddwc2hl5u63m0w5twhwjwns3pj487'>nevent1q…j487</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I believe these are all coping mechanisms. People can&#39;t cope with their mortality. They invent stories about living forever. Through bloodline, through their work, or in some sort of afterlife. It&#39;s an escape from living here and now.<br/><br/>Longevity is not about living forever or avoiding death, but maximizing life. 2026-04-07T11:47:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdxhm5swsx0t2mkr98fx2kvvrddcua28y5um4rzhcl7s8cfjxacuszyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy2uu3tdd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst24vcq79cdh8nv9yc84ce4eq3llvguc9pwskdqr5tkffpy4pgy2sgctlg2'>nevent1q…tlg2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The sooner the resources wasters go out of business, the better for everyone. 2026-04-06T06:19:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspxdnlfekycycherhjruktd4m00at5rs6tmfe6xft4ek4l869g2yqzyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy2zcv2lf Wow, these are beautiful!<br/><br/>Although I am not an otrovert, I think we can learn a thing or two from them. Described in &#34;A gift of not belonging&#34;, they simply don&#39;t perceive this push, the expectations of the society. It&#39;s like they&#39;re disconnected from the &#34;communal bluetooth&#34; (as the author puts it).<br/><br/>We are connected, but we can still pretend we are not and simply give priority to what we believe from within.<br/><br/>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. <br/><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqkefy4w4a24wk4m422ls6ygrqdm0ga73ngqfch66srwuw02fxk0kqythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uqzq6pdjpr85qhx0k58gm8tz04t6z3j295zgdsdpj9n2dw7g4rn0982vqylgl" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…ylgl</a></span> </div> I like this. It's not making A plan, it's making planS. And precisely because we don't know what will happen. <br/><br/>As this is a constant issue for me I’ve tried tackling it in many ways. It’s an uphill battle as the culture all around us tells us that there is a very specific path to follow in life, it’s our job to stay very narrowly on that path, and should we deviate, should tragedy find us and knock us off the track, well that is a shameful failure on our part. ...wow is that exhausting! <br/><br/>I like making AI + Photoshop images and I made these two. The first represents the narrow path. It’s a frightening and exhausting way to live. The second is the expectation of life that I’m trying to install in my head. It’s the idea that there are all kinds of possibilities all the time and it’s our job just to attempt to manage them well. <br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/bd3078825cd65c47dfc08cafe18bf675a24f07844956360b23000d1d7e97f139.png"> <br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/2c286b5b81d3b35197194ecf4994ef858d2236d1653719dd2e7b843065c4b4b4.png"> </blockquote> 2026-04-05T08:46:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs83jfvazevmk2j55mvt50q60p59dmpqeuya5quhq8tdhmape2890czyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy2ux9uze In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxstvsgeaq9ena4p6xe6cna27s5vj3dqjrvrgv3v6nthj9gumef6scufhhx'>nevent1q…fhhx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Wow, these are beautiful!<br/><br/>Although I am not an otrovert, I think we can learn a thing or two from them. Described in &#34;A gift of not belonging&#34;, they simply don&#39;t perceive this push, the expectations of the society. It&#39;s like they&#39;re disconnected from the &#34;communal bluetooth&#34; (as the author puts it).<br/><br/>We are connected, but we can still pretend we are not and simply give priority to what we believe from within.<br/><br/>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. 2026-04-05T08:45:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv29rwucpqv9tw99l3jpg63y3d5mezsdjtame0m4lfuvp6mg7mnmszyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy2cxrjzj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx4vr5uyf5cnf4sd5nx84v35th2fv0guxwng9tfcvq7me4vk4hlpqzzc3pp'>nevent1q…c3pp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m still here! More or less 😉 <br/><br/>Working on some things, but this is a good refuge for the mind... 2026-04-05T08:40:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdzwyhskerw596k0xl3f9k97sqgu52se8a04x93wlskq3qmrhkk2czyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy2r9j5ya City and the valley. That&#39;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.<br/><br/>Wherever I am, I feel the pendulum pushing me to the other side. <br/><br/>Never to the traffic jam like this one though. I&#39;d rather do my norwegian protocol workout, meditation and have some tea.<br/><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpgd5laqcc09h7m954r49gshju7mew03ncdftvqfeq2u87cnhla49qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnr09cxsetjwp6ku6eww3hkgcte9uqzpn4mdne09j8h7rcpt0hzr860gwzqawedys3drkeutpu34wuycwugt5z8xv" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">nevent1q…z8xv</a></span> </div> This sort of order actually increases entropy. It's a paradox. People leaving for "work" (=office) just in time for traffic jam, wasting time in their cars for hours a day, to satisfy the KPIs of the machines. People usually in bullshit jobs, >70% centrally planned.<br/><br/>Yet it is not that hard to build a parallel way that creates something useful. We live (again) in the best time to tame entropy. We got tech, tools, parallel ways are feasible again.<br/><br/>The biohacking community has a motto "don't die". Tamers of entropy should adopt: "Don't waste your life". In bullshit jobs, in bad relationships, in bed with governments, ...<br/><br/>Create! Your own way.<br/><br/>(Picture by <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/nprofile1qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnr09cxsetjwp6ku6eww3hkgcte9uqs7amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd4hk6qpqcpj87vr57s0wy9x2nr4y08z3y33t4xw23ue0h4ulpy43gmmq7ezsm8nm63" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Ember</span> (<span class="italic">nprofile…nm63</span>)</a></span> )<br/><br/> <img src="https://blossom.primal.net/f23d7609047ddde225bdade2fe79f528de61bf57223ff2c012b0fae9d1c753ad.jpg"> </blockquote> 2026-04-05T08:39:48Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs97fh0vwfk2nmw690fwy3j5gcu40l7fvfr2uk2x9zts776scvhelszyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy2rkt4ym In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdsu0d89476fdsz365z6vus5dtvzz3hswk8e8rvnc6z4qkw9uh2vq5uztnf'>nevent1q…ztnf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Same 2026-03-09T23:01:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfd4u3ecmsvzw7n5rcp4wz5p9xq6f6a4ds8u93u4lz9sa38dva53gzyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy2406uzx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8y094zhxn2t7qqy7lxmretnl53rhn3efgggpkz560q5ppk4q8cxq5fk872'>nevent1q…k872</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Here&#39;s what I do, and it&#39;s not a philosophy, it&#39;s just how I get through the day: I stay in the room I&#39;m in. Neither of those futures actually exists right now. They&#39;re both stories. So I start from what&#39;s real, what&#39;s in front of me, who&#39;s next to me.<br/><br/>Then when I plan, I don&#39;t plan for the future. I plan for futureS. Refinancing? I don&#39;t ask &#34;is this the right time.&#34; I ask &#34;how does this look if things go well, if they go sideways, if they go really sideways.&#34; I&#39;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&#39;s a much calmer question to sit with.<br/><br/>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&#39;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?<br/><br/>You don&#39;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.<br/><br/>Good luck 🍀! To us all... We&#39;ll need it. ❤️ 2026-03-09T22:55:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs08qutmlzv9axexyranwqh7qeasfexlug6w90fagkpzq09dtthu3szyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy26xfudp Most people are running four conversations at once. The actual conversation, the one about how they&#39;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&#39;re just here. 2026-03-02T14:16:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvgryfurkhns72hwlx667akyuahhrwmemqv4he4c6v75qj7qkfm7szyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy2g6hyzq 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.<br/><br/>&#34;You never step into the same river twice.&#34; But we hold tight to our name, our steady sense of identity. What ties me to that teenage version of myself? The river&#39;s rushed out to sea by now, evaporated into mist, poured back down as rain, with hardly a drop left in common. 2026-02-23T08:31:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrnfcr4zvjmlc8mtvs35s9dayfp7w3xeqqmvzp8gen85mp5r933kgzyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy2telfxz There&#39;s a version of tender that has nothing to do with softness. It&#39;s seeing someone clearly: their patterns, their defenses, what they&#39;re good at, what they&#39;re afraid of. And choosing to stay anyway. You can&#39;t be tender toward what you refuse to look at.<br/><br/>They key phrase you can let your tongue play for you: &#34;Oh, this is interesting...&#34;. Feel the shape of it in your mouth, use it often. 2026-02-22T08:05:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2r0xfytxp522k957n343wk7ej49ymwy3y446fllsw6k93yn4xarqzyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy2ls3ddk 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&#39;t exist anymore. So they don&#39;t see it. The split accelerates. And the ones building something new get further ahead every day. 2026-02-19T18:36:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8nxwnr05xww9mzel50yln73a4yy89mzwx9w0zutxwr3udd9ghu4czyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy2l80d4g The most dangerous people in any organization are those who optimize without questioning. They&#39;ll build the slickest dystopia you&#39;ve ever seen and call it &#34;progress&#34;<br/><br/>From inside, counter it by finding and empowering the ones who still ask &#34;why&#34;<br/><br/>From outside, spot the signs and build something better, non-dystopian.<br/><br/>Outside is better. 2026-02-18T18:09:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqst093j3uhsm2p80yxl5s5c3asgp2h7wu9x03dh0jdrtt6fw5shzqszyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy29exa4w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0njgufj94scyu39wclnv2s8m9tkjemqrqjjlg6ypxng2lzqxjrss7fmtxu'>nevent1q…mtxu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Thank you! Enjoying it here so far. 2026-02-17T14:07:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8s50p7wjmehn9jg3muuhnu55p6e6kq2kqq3vtsk2fh3jtdn6m7jgzyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy22gwls0 The monks don&#39;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.<br/><br/>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, &#34;Yeah, it&#39;s a nice way to relax.&#34; And then he explained how to take it further.<br/><br/>I often think about this. It&#39;s interesting—once you have that experience, you realize the difference instantly. 2026-02-17T08:11:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfgrllkqtm7qanpstcup27vjsmm2c0dxnr3m8rma9gq6zdfjr7vzszyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy27lqtly 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.<br/><br/>You can optimize your way to the bottom of a well and never once ask whether you should be underground. 2026-02-16T15:56:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr956auvg07g0adgx6wxgy4g0p5vlwfm2kk84g93c0c3ad929y02qzyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy2ck37d9 You&#39;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&#39;t joking. 2026-02-14T10:51:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg2w4wq03fpx5wkyn3cuwwv3u43h583lmk34wmdkpq74f3gzguw6qzyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy2zfy6nd 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.<br/><br/>Glad I&#39;m now on Nostr, I see it as an essential part of the plumbing of the new world. 2026-02-13T09:10:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz6d8mq2r27yz49vh5su7dr2a9w4jrd8d9hj5lt7hm56hanz6mp9gzyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy2rvnjv2 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. 2026-02-12T12:33:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswmyrlgnue3c7zjdhevgv8806lhaxw6t68wvm2dykt6r756wexxtszyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy27t8h7q 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&#39;s a gap. The gap is the point. Everything else is just weather. 2026-02-12T09:37:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs28c7waaa3t0f3yvskwzzgsp70c4029eplff0lcxavjedytw3gy2gzyrqxgleswn6pacs5e2vw53uu2yjx9w5ee28n977hnuyjk9r0vrmy2xty85p GM Nostr 2026-02-11T05:12:00Z