" @nopranablem.com is the first person i call when things go wrong. and when things go right."

hello bluesky!

hello

scientists, tapping the flask: we’ve made it. we’ve finally made it, ladies and gentlemen. we have achieved the perfect song

oh no i forgot to surrender to reality again

hey so idk if you got the memo but we're so back, actually

just do the right thing bro. i promise bro just literally do the right thing and everything else will follow. bro cmon just do the right thing bro

Contemplating "energy" as a perceptual quality that can change in ~meditation Still mostly view it in a conventional sense, drowsy ∈ low energy, lively ∈ high energy But getting crisper on phenomenology, it seems more like "total amount of attention/salience in perception"?

ya boi on that opposite grindset -- less exercise, less meditation, more eating food for the sake of quelling unpleasant emotions (fully aware), staying up & waking up later and i dont feel as great!!!!

there's nothing wrong with you there just hasn't been an interface with The System that lets you stay true to your values AND contribute and you've rightly recognized that the tradeoffs you would have to make (or have made) aren't ideal this is the feeling that drives civilization forward

so much zelda. sooo muuuchh zelda

thinking about that one amazing flowing IRL convo i had with @loopholekid.com and @chrisd.bsky.social gooood tiiiiimes!

sauna sangha. saungha.

but i'm going to be so over

in my "make number go up" era (thinking about growth marketing & bizzhhniiishh)

these are the kinda memes we're on now you gotta catch up

You're optimizing to maximize your pleasure over one lifetime, I'm optimizing to minimize all beings' suffering over infinite lifetimes, we are not the same but actually we are the same it's complicated well actually it's simple it just appears complicated you know what just forget I said anything

gn

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in my getting serious and building era

wake up! it's the first of the month

pasture-raised productivity

Mr President -- a second croissant has hit my stomach

aight who painted the sky yesterday

calico cat floating on orange creamsicle

i like the wu you walkin if you walkin my wei

taking a trip to samsara, hmu if you need anything?

i didnt know what virtue ethics was exactly and then i watched one video about it and hey apparently i've been a virtue ethicist this whole time

i just watched Beef and wow hey anyone wanna do some brahmavihara practice?

Thinking about "free agent"/strategy/independent work again and reminded I want to read more of @tomcritchlow.com https://tomcritchlow.com/strategy/

my currently reading (though 90% is just Opening the Heart of Compassion)

"bad" shitposting is Goodharted it asks for engagement first, is often coupled with irony & sarcasm, and only concerns itself with its signal-to-noise ratio second. it may taste good but is ultimately nutritionally deficient

blue sky but make it gn

fifth jhana memes for infinitely spacious teens

mudita monday tanha tuesday wu wei wednesday tathagata thursday four noble truths friday samadhi saturday samsara sunday

It's Wu Wei Wednesday! What Wei are you gonna Wu today?

good morning bsky, are you On It today?

Learned about Sufi whirling dervishes

you wouldnt retweet a mushroom

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bloooshkchai

Am I being prompt engineered rn?

who knew your life’s phenomenology would entail almost completely of looking at a computer

today is pregaming my taxes with a long walk under the texas sun and a 40min meditation

such a strange thing, seeing the spirals of small decisions, yours and others, rippling backwards from their onset - shaping the life you continue to live 'how did i get here?' you may ask - as if it were at once not inevitable and the future not still within your telling

Selamat pagi!

selamat malam

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