[Social media doesn't have the equivalent of an open workspace where you can see people's process. Those who stop publishing become invisible. Those who publish constantly are prominent.]
[Social media doesn't have the equivalent of an open workspace where you can see people's process. Those who stop publishing become invisible. Those who publish constantly are prominent.]
I can listen to myself. I can acknowledge my own pain more precisely than most people. I have the time and flexibility to be present.
[It is possible to validate every note if it resolves.]
Set an example for other people by openly talking about your insecurities without feeling weighed down by then - to be aware of them, to speak about them with detachment, to share them without being dominated. Set an example that there is no shame in doing that or need to feel like you might be rejected.
What can we normalize with our actions?
Tell people who you are.
Try to recognize and affirm the unique qualities of each person you meet.
The opposite of insecurity is to be comfortable with yourself, your attitudes, your way of thinking - to exist as you are without justification.
Pay less attention to the stories and more to intuition, shorten the gap between feeling and acting.
violence can be functional to the interests of Washington and big capital, as it weakens popular capacity to rebel against hyper-exploitation, extractivism and quotidian oppression.
Love never expects anything in return / Love knows only giving / Giving and giving / Without even waiting for a thank you
Attachment to a specific outcome blinds you to all the other ones.
We must make it so that every search is worth doing and every link is worth clicking on.
If videoconferencing is compared to a plane trip, what's the distance travelled? Is the plane full or not? In what year was it built? On the other hand, how long does the videoconference take? Does it happen over a wired or a wireless access network? Do you use a laptop or a high-end telepresence system? When you're streaming music, do you listen to a song once or twenty times? If you buy a DVD, do you go to the store by car or by bike? How long is the trip? Do you only buy the DVD or do you also shop for other stuff?
One important difference between online and offline services is the role of time. Online, energy use increases with the time of the activity. If you read two articles instead of one article on a digital news site, you consume more energy. But if you buy a newspaper, the energy use is independent of the number of articles you read. A newspaper could even be read by two people so that energy use per person is halved.
A sensitivity analysis generates very different conclusions from the ones that are usually presented. For example: streaming a music album over the internet 27 times can use more energy than the manufacturing and transportation of its CD equivalent. 25 Or, reading a digital newspaper on a desktop PC uses more energy than reading a paper version from the moment the reading length exceeds one hour and a quarter, taking the view that the newspaper is read by one person. 26 Or, in the earlier mentioned study about the energy advantage of videoconferencing, reducing the international participant's travel distance from 5,000 to 333 km makes travelling in person more energy efficient than videoconferencing when a high-end telepresence system is used. Similarly, if the online conference takes not 5 but 75 hours, it's more energy efficient to fly 5,000 km.
Even the biggest problems in the world are just tiny problems stuck together.
Cooking is a performance: it's about adapting, not playback from memory.
Shyness about making mistakes robs others of perspective. Shyness about telling your story prevents the discovery of ideas and possibilities.
Offering is a way to make an experience non-exclusionary.
A comportment which, like furniture, is useful but not interesting or fun.
The engineering mindset of placing elements together because they are nearby vs the human mindset of the right place at the right time.
A feed full of demos, via positiva.
[Hydroelectricity and nuclear are considered green, but not often distinguished as centralized, as opposed to wind and solar which are decentralized. What are the consequences of losing a dam or a reactor versus a turbine or panel?]