Links
Athole McLauchlan in NoTosh: Eight metaphors to understand what you feel in the context of a transition. I’m thinking about this too, as I transition from a year of healing, a simpler life, and pursuits that had their roots in my childhood. A modified version of Sitting quietly and alone on the dock of the bay, watching the sunset and the tide roll away appeals to me: sunrise instead of a sunset. [[_Personal Development]]
Manuel Moreale explores "what even is a community?" The definition he begins with resonates Communities may share a sense of place. Indigenous cultures know this intuitively, and the modern ones seem to treat it like fish ‘think’ about water. Whether a physical location or a digital space, having roots matters. [[_Community 🧑‍🤝‍🧑]]
Recommended by Kevin Kelly to watch this conversation at a Long Now seminar: What the Dying Teaches the Living by Frank Ostaseski. [[_Personal Development]]
May be interesting to JJ?
A “long conversation” is a new format for a conference. Two speakers begin a conversation on stage. After 15 minutes one of the two speakers is replaced by a new speaker and the conversation continues, and every 15 minutes for the next 8 hours a speaker is swapped out. (Each speaker converses for 30 minutes.) The day is engaging, unpredictable, passionate, diverse, informative, and entertaining. It’s a format invented by Long Now Foundation that is worth stealing.
Podcasts
Tim Ferris in conversation with Derek Sivers and Kevin Kelly in a double podcast.
Quotes
Don’t just stand there with your hair turning gray,
soon enough the seas will sink your little island.
So while there is still the illusion of time,
set out for another shore.
No sense packing a bag.
You won’t be able to lift it into your boat.
Give away all your collections.
Take only new seeds and an old stick.
Send out some prayers on the wind before you sail.
Don’t be afraid.
Someone knows you’re coming.
An extra fish has been salted.
–Mona (Sono) Santacroce (1928 – 1995)
Quoted by Frank Ostaseski in his Long Now talk What the Dying Teach The Living