Not sure who said it first, but it needs to be said again:

One doesn’t get good at something by not doing it.

The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have, the goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.

Simon Sinek in his evergreen TED talk “start with why” m.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Zo...

James O’Malley writes about the balance between comfort and community and the reboot of his covid-drowned social life.

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-might...

Call for inspiration:
Have you ever felt stuck in a rut? No idea what’s next in life and no starting point? Isolated yourself to the point that you don’t dare calling others for fear of rejection - but still haunted by the nagging feeling that something needs to happen?

How did you get out of it?

When life plays you a hard curveball, or when you feel you lost, it’s easy to give in, and give up. Suffering, complaining, projecting, analysis paralysis, the whole nine yards. For years. Decades even. Strong, all-consuming feelings.

Today I change. I commit to leaning into it.

#65: You will prevent yourself from even having thoughts that could lower your status. Avoid blocking yourself off just so people keep thinking you’re cool.

www.lesswrong.com/posts/7hFeMW...

The world can be beautiful and mysterious and wonderful and scary all at the same time.

Please note - @kollagesquare.bsky.social did *not* endorse this DPN holder; this is all my shenanigans 😌

As a middle-aged white woman I buried the last of those when I turned 40 😑

#KnitSky 🧶

Finally someone (Yasha Mounk) took a hard look at the World Happiness Report.

It only bases on one metric: the Cantril Ladder, that is, the country-wide average to the question “on which step (0-10) of an imaginary ladder do you rate your life right now”.

It does not consider affect(!)

Michael Ashcroft in “the appropriate amount of effort is zero” writes about how many of us have over time distorted our perception of how much effort is required for an activity.

expandingawareness.org/blog/the-app...