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  • I was often called selfish when all I wanted to do was enjoy something for myself

    I was often called selfish when all I wanted to do was enjoy something for myself

    Keywords: Everyday Life , Life Updates

    I understand peace comes from within (I could be wrong) and getting the peace I desire is going to take a lot of work. Being more mindful and intentional with my words and actions, forgiving myself for past decisions I’ve made, allowing myself grace, and allowing myself time to heal. Creating a safe place for myself to grow and evolve as a person. It’s not going to happen overnight however going back to things I enjoy, creating new habits as simple as they are, have brought a level of peace and calm to my life I think I was searching for. Life is already hard as it is but finding the little things that make us happy or what we enjoy makes it better. This is a lesson I am learning, not being afraid to do what I want to do and not being afraid of trying. Just do, just doing whatever I want with no fear and regrets. I wrote this post because I’ve been grappling with different aspects of my life lately, and this was an area that took a hit the most. I wanted to share with you some of the little things (I may have mentioned in the past) I have been doing to create a more peaceful environment for myself. If you have made it to the end of the post, thank you, thank you for allowing me to share a bit of myself, and thank you for the support.

    https://softpastelslife.com/2023/06/19/searching-for-peace
  • Sparring for Literacy

    Sparring for Literacy

    It’s time for another installment in our “Golden Rule” series. Today I want to talk about sparring for literacy. You might also think of this as iteratively bouncing ideas off of each other, a sort of turn-taking approach to testing out hypotheses — which is not taking place in modern educational institutions and / or research settings:

    These old-fashioned educational institutions mostly (nearly universally) still consider mere publication to be the end game rather as simply a starting point to get the ball rolling in endless and ongoing games of information and communication. These more and more ancient institutions are failing societies by allowing infantile (and incoherent or even completely meaningless) marketplaces to function as arbiters of success and / or failure.

    https://socio.business.blog/2023/12/02/about-technological-limitations-of-the-publishing-model-as-an-information-and-communications-technology

    As in Woody Allen’s “Vicky Christina Barcelona” (2008), so we too need to test out what we want, don’t want, which direction we turn toward or away from, and so on. The publishing model is inadequate to the task of figuring out answers to such questions on an ongoing basis. We need ongoing information and communication feedback loops, rather than a one-way publishing industry.

    Therefore, the Golden Rule of sparring with one another applies — we ought to spar with one another the way we expect our partners to spar with us. Thereby we train each other as we also train ourselves to communicate and inform each other, with one another, for one another and also in order to continually further develop and improve our information and communications technologies.

  • I want my own interests to be represented here as well as the interests of others

    I want my own interests to be represented here as well as the interests of others

    Over the past several weeks, I have been wracking my brain over something I consider very peculiar. It’s very far from being a clear idea, but I have at least created a first attempt of circumscribing it and maybe even describing it in a passable, yet perhaps not fully adequate way. Here’s an excerpt:

    Keywords: freezine , common , community , engage , engaged , engagement , engaging , language , linguistic community , obscurity , participation , people , shared , unique selling proposition , USP

    We ought not to celebrate our unique individuality as much as we should stand in awe, wonder and amazement if and whenever we feel we are able to come to a common understanding, to reach agreement, to collaborate and help each other.

    Obscurity is an issue we all have to deal with | FREELY BE :: Free Media Associations (remediary.com)

    I have shown the article to a number of people, but all of them reacted negatively to it. This is very disappointing. I think the main reason why there was such unified negativity is that the issue is very, very complex … and even more than that — I allowed other (current events) issues to color my essay (for example: the past couple weeks of the debates over the 2020 presidential election in the USA).

    The approach I describe in the above article is unconventional. If it were conventional, it wouldn’t really make any sense to mention it at all (or at least not any more than mentioning what I ate for breakfast). I believe this approach to business (and in particular: to marketing) may very well be far more effective at creating a much better world … and I want a much better world.

    So that is why I have mentioned it here! 😉

  • I was preoccupied with wanting to know how the 300 was really justified, if these guys could make the same thing for so little

    I was preoccupied with wanting to know how the 300 was really justified, if these guys could make the same thing for so little

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    They all notoriously use brutally cheap labor in Asia, and all over the world, really. Most of it’s probably black market and pretty much human trafficking, but it’s astounding that I’m paying 70€ and someone else is actually paying 500 for jackets that are only making a very few rich people richer.

    https://twominds293192599.wordpress.com/2020/11/20/what-do-i-know-its-just-a-jacket