Psynaesthesia

Customize. Re-invent. Access

August 07, 2022 14:02 - 9 minutes - 8.44 MB

Customisation is key to finding out what works for you. The modern algorithms will suggest to you that it knows what rest is. The trends on Instagram will tell you it knows what you'll enjoy. Maybe you won't find what you are looking for there unless you know what you are looking for and how do you want it to be.

Salvaging kindness part 2 : why measure it?

November 04, 2021 19:37 - 7 minutes - 7.3 MB

We measure kindness, but what is the utility of it. Is the way we measure it worth the analytic strain?

Salvaging kindness from its hobbesian critique

November 04, 2021 18:56 - 5 minutes - 4.81 MB

Man is not nasty evil or brutish. Humankind is a revolution onto itself.

Art gives every no one everything

July 12, 2021 17:44 - 6 minutes - 5.66 MB

I've had five lifetimes. With every new form of art, get another one. I am reincarnated without having to die. Let me show you how.

Are we part of cohorts or communities?

July 04, 2021 16:03 - 10 minutes - 9.76 MB

Cohorts are not communities. Let's figure out what they are and how best we can maintain or make one.

Barriers to having a hobby

May 08, 2021 20:44 - 9 minutes - 8.74 MB

We see hobbies as a distraction. Well what isn't a distraction. Lets explore the cultural origins of this inability to find oneself a hobby.

Guilt in the time of a pandemic

May 05, 2021 06:06 - 9 minutes - 8.78 MB

Understand the origin of guilt. Understand the connection between grief and guilt. Understand the mixed bag that helplessness entails. Understand where you are right now.

Spin your environment around

April 19, 2021 20:27 - 8 minutes - 7.96 MB

Profiting from the patterns of your environment.

A sailing ship

March 07, 2021 18:25 - 12 minutes - 5.84 MB

Who is the ship? Who is a good sailor. How can I sail? What are the different ways of sailing?

The structure of the online world

December 26, 2020 19:30 - 8 minutes - 7.86 MB

The online world imposes a structure of its own. An unnatural one. It's time for us to re-make a structure that works for us.

My take on Rumi

October 08, 2020 21:33 - 8 minutes - 3.9 MB

This is my understanding of the phrase unself yourself. It's a culmination of my meditations on the idea of "tat tvam asi", "the universe is you".

Choice vs compulsion

September 30, 2020 18:56 - 4 minutes - 2.42 MB

Our routines and schedules must be a choice and must remain so. They must not become compulsions. To know the difference tune in.

What does "do your best mean"?

August 12, 2020 15:17 - 7 minutes - 3.78 MB

This episode is about exploring the different narratives that have made this one overarching picture of what doing your best should look like.

Personhood and social responsibility

July 31, 2020 16:53 - 8 minutes - 4.38 MB

We've got be a person before a person with any responsibility towards anything. The I must not lose itself in the - I do this and this.

When change hits you

July 29, 2020 15:47 - 5 minutes - 4.77 MB

Nostalgia is not a perennial river. Change is. Change nourishes us. We draw from it a new lesson everyday and grow.

The achievement loop

July 25, 2020 09:48 - 10 minutes - 9.99 MB

The loop I am going to talk about makes life about milestones and takes the fun out of living.

The structures of our days

June 26, 2020 09:08 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MB

Discipline is not rigidity, not anti life. It is freedom.

It's okay not to have answers

June 14, 2020 13:45 - 11 minutes - 32.2 MB

We all grow to hate an I don't know when it comes to moral or existential questions. We look at a question as something that creates disequilibrium. That's not true. It's assuming wrong answers that must create so. Questions must be experienced. It leads to a fundamental process of living : exploration, even if you don't find an answer.

Awareness is not a want but a need.

June 02, 2020 13:35 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MB

Awareness has become a social facade but not a personal need. Awareness about social issues has been about a matter of convinience not a matter of priority. It needs to be a priority if we want to really retain the right to complain about the world we live in.

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