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Paul
@envisionedaphorism.bsky.social
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Just looking to write and share. I write novels, stories, poems, aphorisms and more. I think I'll also post some writing games as well. Glad you're reading.
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A simple trick for changing Us v Them into team thinking. Also some practical advice for leaders of teams.

#academicsky #gardenpic #garden #team #leadership

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Turn Them into Team for a Better Us
Even for just a moment of consideration can change a whole perspective
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November 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Rain, wind, cold, gray skies. A typical November day. Our rose doing its best to still bring joy to the world. #bloomscrolling #flowers #rose #november #knockoutrose
November 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Thanks for sharing and Happy Thinking!

#academicsky #booksky #bookrec #Kindness #emapthy

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The Path Toward a Good Life is Paved with Bricks of Kindness
Permission to be a good person from Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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(If it pleases you, then please share)
If you are able to love, then you are able to peace. If you have peace, then love will be next door. Read more:

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#academicky #love #peace #gardensky for the picture! @merriam-webster.com #worldpeaceday
If You Take the Side of Peace, Love will be Your Neighbor: Part 2
Peace as a verb and being a person of love.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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#academicsky #peace #justice #ethics #blogsky #gardenpicture
If You Take the Side of Peace, Love will be Your Neighbor: Part 1
World leaders should focus on justice plans rather than peace plans because with justice people will find peace.
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October 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Being indifferent isn't an excuse not to do the work.

#academicsky #stoic #ethics #thought #substack

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The Complexity of Stoicism in a Broken World
Practically, Stoicism comes down to the analysis of indifference.
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October 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Resharing an old post because of the news of Joel Mokry win of the Nobel Prize in Economics about institutions.

#academicsky #philosophy #economics #equal
Institutions May Disappoint Us, but They are Key in Living our Best Individual Lives
When our institutions let us down, we must remember personal responsibility to build them better as time goes on.
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October 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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#academicsky #booksky #bannedbooks #readsky
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Book Neglect is the Twin of Book Banning
We should never wait for books to be banned to read them
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October 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Thought I would share while they are announcing winners. #academicsky #nobelprize #substack
Nobel Prize and Striving for Betterment
The Nobel Prize is a testament that humanity is good.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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#academicsky #booksky @jonathanjarry.bsky.social #reading @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social @readingprideuk.bsky.social @therightsfactory.bsky.social @readbookpage.bsky.social
How to Read More (Share to help solve the reading crisis)
Children read when adults read, and reading promotes self and society.
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October 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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#academicsky #booksky #foodsky #reflection
Fadi Kattan’s Cookbook Bethlehem is a Journey to the Soul of Humanity
Reading cookbooks as literature allows you to unlock cultural awareness and love through food.
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September 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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#acsdemicsky #readersky #freedomwriters #garden #time
All Investment is Time and Time is Endlessly Finite
Once we see time as the center of progress, then progress becomes simple.
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September 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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#booksky #books #garden #bookshop #academicsky
For the Love of Books
Social Benevolence’s Bookshop.org first book list
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September 15, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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#academicsky @marchofdimes.org #instituion #cdc #govnerment @fwcollaborative.bsky.social @politico.com
Institutions May Disappoint Us, but They are Key in Living our Best Individual Lives
When our institutions let us down, we must remember personal responsibility to build them better as time goes on.
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September 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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#academicsky #humble #morality #philosophy #culture #peace
Humility as a Cause of Moral Action
Being humble allows our actions to inspire others.
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September 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Our lives are vessals for communication, so we must choose to share the good.
August 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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#garden #growth #decay #flower #bee
The Theory of Decay and The Growth Mindset
Our intentions allow decay and growth to be powerful tools to make the world better
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August 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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#academicsky #identity
Claiming Identity by Sharing Knowledge
We have the ability to also claim an identity of action rather than only an identity that is given.
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August 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Read about my visit to the @nobelprize.bsky.social museum in #stockholm . #Academicsky #writingcommunity #Philsky #Philmind #lit

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Nobel Prize and Striving for Betterment
The Nobel Prize is a testament that humanity is good.
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August 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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#fiction #story #flash #flashfiction #allegory
Returning to Humanity: Part 1
Something while I’m away: a flash story part one
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July 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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#jsa #mindfulness #philsky #academicsky #signalboost #kindness
Atonement and Sympathy Grow Relationships
Two steps before forgiveness, atonement and sympathy are powerful places to start and live.
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July 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Check out my latest post on my reading of @karenhao.bsky.social 's book #emnpireofai. @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social #AI #AGI #Booksky #philsky #Academicsky #JSA
Karen Hao Analyzes AI’s Human Capital in Empire of AI
Technology has always had a human impact, we must choose how AI changes the world.
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July 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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#philsky #academicsky #signalboost
A Nostalgia for Change: We have a choice to do good
Understanding nostalgia not as a burden, but as the force for self improved good.
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July 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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#booksky #litfic #jsa #philsky #Academicsky #signalboost
Joyce Carol Oats and Novel Patriarchy
Joyce Carol Oats writes with sympathy to illuminate patriarchal injustice
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July 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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#kindness #culture #love #bethechange #poltics #politicsofkindness #philosophy #aphorism #thoughtoftheday #charity #cultureofkindness
Creating Change Convinces More People than Trying to Convince Them
Creating the change you want to see in the world changes the world itself.
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June 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM