#life-design — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #life-design, aggregated by home.social.
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There’s a quiet moment when success stops feeling like success.
Do you push harder—or pause and rethink everything?
https://medium.com/p/d22c2aaf262d
#DeepThinking #LifeDesign #Mindfulness #Growth #Emberhart -
There’s a quiet moment when success stops feeling like success.
Do you push harder—or pause and rethink everything?
https://medium.com/p/d22c2aaf262d
#DeepThinking #LifeDesign #Mindfulness #Growth #Emberhart -
There’s a quiet moment when success stops feeling like success.
Do you push harder—or pause and rethink everything?
https://medium.com/p/d22c2aaf262d
#DeepThinking #LifeDesign #Mindfulness #Growth #Emberhart -
There’s a quiet moment when success stops feeling like success.
Do you push harder—or pause and rethink everything?
https://medium.com/p/d22c2aaf262d
#DeepThinking #LifeDesign #Mindfulness #Growth #Emberhart -
How does a 360‑degree change in your life sound?
https://de320.isrefer.com/go/UNTHINKABLE/Stuartn/
#MindsetShift #NewDirection #LifeDesign #SmallSteps #ThinkandGrowEducation #RayBehan #UNTHINKABLE #Workshop -
Habits are not magic. They are learned responses to recurring cues. What cues in your life are shaping you today?
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7447622025264951299
#HabitFormation #LifeDesign #AtomicHabits #EmberhartPodcast #BehaviorPatterns #PersonalDevelopment -
Motivation is overrated. Environment shapes behavior far more. What small changes can make good habits automatic?
https://www.emberhart.com/podcast/
#PodcastLearning #BehaviorChange #EmberhartPodcast #SystemsOverWillpower #LifeDesign #HabitScience -
Micro‑Adjustments The Art of Responding Without Overreacting
Micro adjustments are small, intentional shifts that help you respond without slipping into overreaction. By noticing quiet signals early and choosing proportionate actions, you preserve energy, build steadiness, and create meaningful change through tiny, sustainable moves. Small hinges really do swing big doors. -
Micro‑Adjustments The Art of Responding Without Overreacting
Micro adjustments are small, intentional shifts that help you respond without slipping into overreaction. By noticing quiet signals early and choosing proportionate actions, you preserve energy, build steadiness, and create meaningful change through tiny, sustainable moves. Small hinges really do swing big doors. -
Micro‑Adjustments The Art of Responding Without Overreacting
Micro adjustments are small, intentional shifts that help you respond without slipping into overreaction. By noticing quiet signals early and choosing proportionate actions, you preserve energy, build steadiness, and create meaningful change through tiny, sustainable moves. Small hinges really do swing big doors. -
People keep messaging to make sure I’m safe in Cambodia, but that’s only half the story. I’m sitting in a big apartment in the centre of Siem Reap, English everywhere, opportunities opening up, and a life that actually works. There’s a reason expats stay. I’m thriving.
https://whothefami.substack.com/p/thriving-in-siem-reap-why-cambodia
#CambodiaLife #ExpatPerspective #CreativeNonfiction #SlowTravel #LifeDesign
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People keep messaging to make sure I’m safe in Cambodia, but that’s only half the story. I’m sitting in a big apartment in the centre of Siem Reap, English everywhere, opportunities opening up, and a life that actually works. There’s a reason expats stay. I’m thriving.
https://whothefami.substack.com/p/thriving-in-siem-reap-why-cambodia
#CambodiaLife #ExpatPerspective #CreativeNonfiction #SlowTravel #LifeDesign
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People keep messaging to make sure I’m safe in Cambodia, but that’s only half the story. I’m sitting in a big apartment in the centre of Siem Reap, English everywhere, opportunities opening up, and a life that actually works. There’s a reason expats stay. I’m thriving.
https://whothefami.substack.com/p/thriving-in-siem-reap-why-cambodia
#CambodiaLife #ExpatPerspective #CreativeNonfiction #SlowTravel #LifeDesign
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People keep messaging to make sure I’m safe in Cambodia, but that’s only half the story. I’m sitting in a big apartment in the centre of Siem Reap, English everywhere, opportunities opening up, and a life that actually works. There’s a reason expats stay. I’m thriving.
https://whothefami.substack.com/p/thriving-in-siem-reap-why-cambodia
#CambodiaLife #ExpatPerspective #CreativeNonfiction #SlowTravel #LifeDesign
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New rules don’t change your life until they change your calendar.
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#NewRules #LifeDesign #Habits #Boundaries #PersonalGrowth #ThinkandGrowEducation #RayBehan #Meditation #Writing -
New rules don’t change your life until they change your calendar.
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#NewRules #LifeDesign #Habits #Boundaries #PersonalGrowth #ThinkandGrowEducation #RayBehan #Meditation #Writing -
New rules don’t change your life until they change your calendar.
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#NewRules #LifeDesign #Habits #Boundaries #PersonalGrowth #ThinkandGrowEducation #RayBehan #Meditation #Writing -
New rules don’t change your life until they change your calendar.
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#NewRules #LifeDesign #Habits #Boundaries #PersonalGrowth #ThinkandGrowEducation #RayBehan #Meditation #Writing -
People take money so seriously — careers, titles, lifelong stress.
I took a different route: Bitcoin as the motorbike, Asia as the side street.
My days are simple now: coffee, writing, meditation, conversations, space.
No rush. No pretending. Just flow.
Life feels easier when you stop sitting in traffic and take the risk.https://whothefami.substack.com/p/do-you-need-to-be-serious-about-making
#slowliving #writinglife #bitcoin #expatlife #digitalnomad #minimalism #lifedesign #flowstate #substack #independentwriter
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People take money so seriously — careers, titles, lifelong stress.
I took a different route: Bitcoin as the motorbike, Asia as the side street.
My days are simple now: coffee, writing, meditation, conversations, space.
No rush. No pretending. Just flow.
Life feels easier when you stop sitting in traffic and take the risk.https://whothefami.substack.com/p/do-you-need-to-be-serious-about-making
#slowliving #writinglife #bitcoin #expatlife #digitalnomad #minimalism #lifedesign #flowstate #substack #independentwriter
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People take money so seriously — careers, titles, lifelong stress.
I took a different route: Bitcoin as the motorbike, Asia as the side street.
My days are simple now: coffee, writing, meditation, conversations, space.
No rush. No pretending. Just flow.
Life feels easier when you stop sitting in traffic and take the risk.https://whothefami.substack.com/p/do-you-need-to-be-serious-about-making
#slowliving #writinglife #bitcoin #expatlife #digitalnomad #minimalism #lifedesign #flowstate #substack #independentwriter
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People take money so seriously — careers, titles, lifelong stress.
I took a different route: Bitcoin as the motorbike, Asia as the side street.
My days are simple now: coffee, writing, meditation, conversations, space.
No rush. No pretending. Just flow.
Life feels easier when you stop sitting in traffic and take the risk.https://whothefami.substack.com/p/do-you-need-to-be-serious-about-making
#slowliving #writinglife #bitcoin #expatlife #digitalnomad #minimalism #lifedesign #flowstate #substack #independentwriter
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Question worth sitting with:
How many of your daily actions are actual choices — and how many are just reactions to the same time, place, and routine? https://youtu.be/YaqLE837zgg
#SelfAwareness #IntentionalLiving #MentalModels #LifeDesign #Clarity #AtomicHabits #EmberhartPodcast -
Thoughts become choices.
Choices become habits.
Habits become your life.
Start where it all begins.
#MindsetMatters #LifeDesign -
Thoughts become choices.
Choices become habits.
Habits become your life.
Start where it all begins.
#MindsetMatters #LifeDesign -
Thoughts become choices.
Choices become habits.
Habits become your life.
Start where it all begins.
#MindsetMatters #LifeDesign -
When you align your actions with your values, life feels lighter, clearer, and more meaningful.
That’s real success.
#LifeDesign #Authenticity -
When you align your actions with your values, life feels lighter, clearer, and more meaningful.
That’s real success.
#LifeDesign #Authenticity -
When you align your actions with your values, life feels lighter, clearer, and more meaningful.
That’s real success.
#LifeDesign #Authenticity -
Don’t chase balance—chase alignment.
When your values match your goals, everything speeds up.
#LifeDesign #HighPerformance -
Don’t chase balance—chase alignment.
When your values match your goals, everything speeds up.
#LifeDesign #HighPerformance -
Don’t chase balance—chase alignment.
When your values match your goals, everything speeds up.
#LifeDesign #HighPerformance -
Unleash Smile 2/10 Joseph began with The Ultimate Success Formula — five steps that apply to anything you want in life: know your outcome, know your reasons why, take massive action, notice what you’re getting, and change your approach. 🎯
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💡 Unleash Within 2/10
Life runs on patterns. The secret?
1️⃣ Recognize them
2️⃣ Use them
3️⃣ Create your own
When you master life’s patterns, you stop reacting and start shaping your destiny.
#LifeDesign #MindsetMatters #PersonalEvolution #LifeOfPurpose -
You Unstoppable 5/10 Perspective shapes your path. 🔭 The meaning you assign to each experience determines how far you’ll go.
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Did you know One Community's complete social media strategy is also open source, replicable, and globally collaborative? Here's our page about how to replicate, modify, and contribute to it.
https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/open-source-social-media-strategy/
#PurposeDriven #WorkLifeBalance #MeaningfulLiving #Motivation #Wellbeing #MindfulLiving #PersonalGrowth #LifeDesign #IntentionalLiving #Inspiration
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Did you know One Community's complete social media strategy is also open source, replicable, and globally collaborative? Here's our page about how to replicate, modify, and contribute to it.
https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/open-source-social-media-strategy/
#PurposeDriven #WorkLifeBalance #MeaningfulLiving #Motivation #Wellbeing #MindfulLiving #PersonalGrowth #LifeDesign #IntentionalLiving #Inspiration
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Did you know One Community's complete social media strategy is also open source, replicable, and globally collaborative? Here's our page about how to replicate, modify, and contribute to it.
https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/open-source-social-media-strategy/
#PurposeDriven #WorkLifeBalance #MeaningfulLiving #Motivation #Wellbeing #MindfulLiving #PersonalGrowth #LifeDesign #IntentionalLiving #Inspiration
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Did you know One Community's complete social media strategy is also open source, replicable, and globally collaborative? Here's our page about how to replicate, modify, and contribute to it.
https://www.onecommunityglobal.org/open-source-social-media-strategy/
#PurposeDriven #WorkLifeBalance #MeaningfulLiving #Motivation #Wellbeing #MindfulLiving #PersonalGrowth #LifeDesign #IntentionalLiving #Inspiration
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Inventing Positivity 3/10 This practice isn’t just about noticing good things—it’s about understanding the choices, efforts, and circumstances that make them possible. 🔍 #Reflection #IntentionalLiving #LifeDesign #LifeOfPurpose
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What if success wasn’t what you achieve, but what you choose to notice each night? 🌙 New video: how 3 simple reflections reshape tomorrow.
Watch: https://youtu.be/bKSIrrzj9-U
#Mindfulness #PersonalGrowth #LifeDesign #PositiveThinking #Leadership #EmberhartPodcast #FutureHer -
What if success wasn’t what you achieve, but what you choose to notice each night? 🌙 New video: how 3 simple reflections reshape tomorrow.
Watch: https://youtu.be/bKSIrrzj9-U
#Mindfulness #PersonalGrowth #LifeDesign #PositiveThinking #Leadership #EmberhartPodcast #FutureHer -
What if success wasn’t what you achieve, but what you choose to notice each night? 🌙 New video: how 3 simple reflections reshape tomorrow.
Watch: https://youtu.be/bKSIrrzj9-U
#Mindfulness #PersonalGrowth #LifeDesign #PositiveThinking #Leadership #EmberhartPodcast #FutureHer -
Real Talk on Relocating—The Good, the Not-So-Great, and Tips to Crush Your Next Chapter
Want details? Watch my latest YouTube video [https://youtu.be/EIXYEIJdKog].
#Relocation #LifeAfter40 #CareerChange #MidlifeTransition #Coaching #PersonalGrowth #MoveForward #CareerAdvice #LifeDesign
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Success isn’t about more—it’s about matching your wants to your needs. What’s one thing you’ve let go of that brought peace? #Minimalism #Simplicity #Fulfilment #Selfawareness #SuccessMindset #IntentionalLiving #LifeDesign #MentalWealth #MindfulSuccess #Success #Leadership #PersonalGrowth #Clarity #Joy #SanjayKMohindroo #MeaningfulLife
https://medium.com/@mohindroo.sanjay66/you-have-succeeded-in-life-when-all-you-really-want-is-only-what-you-really-need-d5749af896ce -
Hack, Hacky, Hacker
A few days ago I wrote about the beauty of great documentation; this is the evil twin post.
The spectrum of meaning across the words hack, hacky, and hacker form a horseshoe when thinking about postures toward life. On either ends are the most difficult options. Being either a hack or a hacker requires dedication and both approaches narrow your world. Being hacky, taking imperfect shortcuts, in the world is immensely satisfying. It is play disguised as problem solving.
Fox by Arnold Peter Weisz Kubincan. Original public domain image from Web umeniaA successful hack takes tremendous effort and dedication just to pretend to be great at something. Humans are great at spotting and discarding hacks. It takes a true master to fool a large enough population and build financial columns under the smoke. Being a hack is constant desperation, there is no play. It is no way to live.
On the other end of the same horseshoe as the hack, is hacking. Here, you are actually achieving something difficult enough to require mastery. “Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.” says Richard Stallman. Now, I’m all for the playful, the difficult, and the useful, but not the “or not”. At minimum hacking should be in service of a prank. Doing things just because is like felling a tree in a forest when no one is around. At least a jump scare is a sine qua non (the dictionary is working :P).
Most systems, especially computers are designed by people for people like you and me who are neither very bright nor very invested in the thing. We want to not have the problem. You can always walk away but that is neither fun, nor useful, and certainly not hard. My favored way is to take the Nakatomi Tunnel through problems. Be hacky. Try enough approaches, push buttons that may do the thing you want until the alignment is just so and you slip through. Effectiveness here = solving many real-world problems quickly while preserving playful momentum.
I want to draw a distinction here from the oversubscribed idea of jugaad. Jugaad was once framed as creative improvisation. It is not. I do not care for jugaad. To make something substandard and expect people to accept it is no way to be in the world. Build good stuff, be hacky route through the small issues.
A hacky mindset is a foxy mindset and not just in the Hendrix way. The Hedgehog and the Fox is a great essay by Isaiah Berlin where he talks about the two kinds of people in the world. Hedgehogs, are great at one big thing. Foxes are mediocre at many things. Foxes thrive on lateral moves and opportunistic shortcuts, you know, hackiness. The hacky, foxy approach to life is more my style.
Breadth, speed, and joy beat fakery and fixation every time
#Business #Creativity #foxVsHedgehog #hackerCulture #Hacking #hackyMindset #IsaiahBerlin #Leadership #lifeDesign #NakatomiTunnel #philosophy #playfulProductivity #problemSolving #RichardStallman #shortcuts #techPhilosophy
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Hack, Hacky, Hacker
A few days ago I wrote about the beauty of great documentation; this is the evil twin post.
The spectrum of meaning across the words hack, hacky, and hacker form a horseshoe when thinking about postures toward life. On either ends are the most difficult options. Being either a hack or a hacker requires dedication and both approaches narrow your world. Being hacky, taking imperfect shortcuts, in the world is immensely satisfying. It is play disguised as problem solving.
Fox by Arnold Peter Weisz Kubincan. Original public domain image from Web umeniaA successful hack takes tremendous effort and dedication just to pretend to be great at something. Humans are great at spotting and discarding hacks. It takes a true master to fool a large enough population and build financial columns under the smoke. Being a hack is constant desperation, there is no play. It is no way to live.
On the other end of the same horseshoe as the hack, is hacking. Here, you are actually achieving something difficult enough to require mastery. “Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.” says Richard Stallman. Now, I’m all for the playful, the difficult, and the useful, but not the “or not”. At minimum hacking should be in service of a prank. Doing things just because is like felling a tree in a forest when no one is around. At least a jump scare is a sine qua non (the dictionary is working :P).
Most systems, especially computers are designed by people for people like you and me who are neither very bright nor very invested in the thing. We want to not have the problem. You can always walk away but that is neither fun, nor useful, and certainly not hard. My favored way is to take the Nakatomi Tunnel through problems. Be hacky. Try enough approaches, push buttons that may do the thing you want until the alignment is just so and you slip through. Effectiveness here = solving many real-world problems quickly while preserving playful momentum.
I want to draw a distinction here from the oversubscribed idea of jugaad. Jugaad was once framed as creative improvisation. It is not. I do not care for jugaad. To make something substandard and expect people to accept it is no way to be in the world. Build good stuff, be hacky route through the small issues.
A hacky mindset is a foxy mindset and not just in the Hendrix way. The Hedgehog and the Fox is a great essay by Isaiah Berlin where he talks about the two kinds of people in the world. Hedgehogs, are great at one big thing. Foxes are mediocre at many things. Foxes thrive on lateral moves and opportunistic shortcuts, you know, hackiness. The hacky, foxy approach to life is more my style.
Breadth, speed, and joy beat fakery and fixation every time
#Business #Creativity #foxVsHedgehog #hackerCulture #Hacking #hackyMindset #IsaiahBerlin #Leadership #lifeDesign #NakatomiTunnel #philosophy #playfulProductivity #problemSolving #RichardStallman #shortcuts #techPhilosophy
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Hack, Hacky, Hacker
A few days ago I wrote about the beauty of great documentation; this is the evil twin post.
The spectrum of meaning across the words hack, hacky, and hacker form a horseshoe when thinking about postures toward life. On either ends are the most difficult options. Being either a hack or a hacker requires dedication and both approaches narrow your world. Being hacky, taking imperfect shortcuts, in the world is immensely satisfying. It is play disguised as problem solving.
Fox by Arnold Peter Weisz Kubincan. Original public domain image from Web umeniaA successful hack takes tremendous effort and dedication just to pretend to be great at something. Humans are great at spotting and discarding hacks. It takes a true master to fool a large enough population and build financial columns under the smoke. Being a hack is constant desperation, there is no play. It is no way to live.
On the other end of the same horseshoe as the hack, is hacking. Here, you are actually achieving something difficult enough to require mastery. “Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.” says Richard Stallman. Now, I’m all for the playful, the difficult, and the useful, but not the “or not”. At minimum hacking should be in service of a prank. Doing things just because is like felling a tree in a forest when no one is around. At least a jump scare is a sine qua non (the dictionary is working :P).
Most systems, especially computers are designed by people for people like you and me who are neither very bright nor very invested in the thing. We want to not have the problem. You can always walk away but that is neither fun, nor useful, and certainly not hard. My favored way is to take the Nakatomi Tunnel through problems. Be hacky. Try enough approaches, push buttons that may do the thing you want until the alignment is just so and you slip through. Effectiveness here = solving many real-world problems quickly while preserving playful momentum.
I want to draw a distinction here from the oversubscribed idea of jugaad. Jugaad was once framed as creative improvisation. It is not. I do not care for jugaad. To make something substandard and expect people to accept it is no way to be in the world. Build good stuff, be hacky route through the small issues.
A hacky mindset is a foxy mindset and not just in the Hendrix way. The Hedgehog and the Fox is a great essay by Isaiah Berlin where he talks about the two kinds of people in the world. Hedgehogs, are great at one big thing. Foxes are mediocre at many things. Foxes thrive on lateral moves and opportunistic shortcuts, you know, hackiness. The hacky, foxy approach to life is more my style.
Breadth, speed, and joy beat fakery and fixation every time
#Business #Creativity #foxVsHedgehog #hackerCulture #Hacking #hackyMindset #IsaiahBerlin #Leadership #lifeDesign #NakatomiTunnel #philosophy #playfulProductivity #problemSolving #RichardStallman #shortcuts #techPhilosophy
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The Plato Plateau
This post started off as a joke. I was attempting to snow clone the Peter Principle for philosophy. It led to a longer thread of thoughts. But first, the snow clone:
The Plato Plateau: People philosophize to the level of their anxiety.
Smoking farmer with branches by Kono Bairei (1844-1895). Digitally enhanced from our own original 1913 edition of Barei Gakan.- Anxiety is the realization that you have absolute choice over life – Kierkegaard. Anxiety, in this context is not nervousness. It is a positive thing when harnesses. We harness it everyday.
- Anxiety is a generative. Anxiety creates identity by locating stable places to launch exploration.
- Action, exploration, and anxiety are a motor. Anxiety → exploration → action → refreshed identity. Inaction leads to identity death
- Realizing you are radically free to choose can also lead to a forest of perceived signals. These can be an overwhelming inbox or simply overloaded ambition.
- When anxiety overwhelms it becomes difficult to tell signal from noise.
- Tools like GTD crash anxiety. When overwhelmed, GTD works well. When there is too little anxiety identity becomes ephemeral.
- GTD isn’t a means to nirvana: GTD integrates 10k, 30k foot views to reintroduce future anxiety.
- When your identity is smeared across too many anxieties you declare anxiety bankruptcy and crash your identity in some safe spot. Journals, sabbaticals, quitting.
- Like the parable of the rock soup, vaporized anxiety needs a place to condense onto. Ideally something disposable but sufficient to let your identity create an “ordered world of meaning”
- Life examination occurs with identity crashes. Philosophy provides just enough of a toehold in the abstract to spur action in the actual.
- Philosophy is a way to spur action absent anxiety/identity. We pick the philosophy depending on the degree of identity loss.
- Philosophy can be broadly sorted as:
- Survival – laws and tactics oriented
- Social Cohesion- harmony, virtue ethics, etiquette
- Systems level order – algorithms and protocols oriented
- Self Knowledge and Meaning – reflecting on existing and consciousness
- Meta-systems – theorizes about theories
- Most scientists and builders work best at level 3 systems level order. Going lower, i-ii, for environmental crises and higher, iv-v, for internal crises.
- Complexity of selected philosophy is not superiority. A rung’s usefulness matches your identity state and environment, not some civilizational high score.
- Philosophy as Periodic Maintenance: Crashing and philosophy sampling are maintenance actions on the place called identity.
#action #anxiety #Business #existentialAnxiety #existentialism #exploration #GTD #identity #Kierkegaard #lifeDesign #mentalModels #personalDevelopment #PeterPrinciple #philosophy #PlatoPlateau #productivity #selfImprovement #stoicism #systemsThinking
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The Plato Plateau
This post started off as a joke. I was attempting to snow clone the Peter Principle for philosophy. It led to a longer thread of thoughts. But first, the snow clone:
The Plato Plateau: People philosophize to the level of their anxiety.
Smoking farmer with branches by Kono Bairei (1844-1895). Digitally enhanced from our own original 1913 edition of Barei Gakan.- Anxiety is the realization that you have absolute choice over life – Kierkegaard. Anxiety, in this context is not nervousness. It is a positive thing when harnesses. We harness it everyday.
- Anxiety is a generative. Anxiety creates identity by locating stable places to launch exploration.
- Action, exploration, and anxiety are a motor. Anxiety → exploration → action → refreshed identity. Inaction leads to identity death
- Realizing you are radically free to choose can also lead to a forest of perceived signals. These can be an overwhelming inbox or simply overloaded ambition.
- When anxiety overwhelms it becomes difficult to tell signal from noise.
- Tools like GTD crash anxiety. When overwhelmed, GTD works well. When there is too little anxiety identity becomes ephemeral.
- GTD isn’t a means to nirvana: GTD integrates 10k, 30k foot views to reintroduce future anxiety.
- When your identity is smeared across too many anxieties you declare anxiety bankruptcy and crash your identity in some safe spot. Journals, sabbaticals, quitting.
- Like the parable of the rock soup, vaporized anxiety needs a place to condense onto. Ideally something disposable but sufficient to let your identity create an “ordered world of meaning”
- Life examination occurs with identity crashes. Philosophy provides just enough of a toehold in the abstract to spur action in the actual.
- Philosophy is a way to spur action absent anxiety/identity. We pick the philosophy depending on the degree of identity loss.
- Philosophy can be broadly sorted as:
- Survival – laws and tactics oriented
- Social Cohesion- harmony, virtue ethics, etiquette
- Systems level order – algorithms and protocols oriented
- Self Knowledge and Meaning – reflecting on existing and consciousness
- Meta-systems – theorizes about theories
- Most scientists and builders work best at level 3 systems level order. Going lower, i-ii, for environmental crises and higher, iv-v, for internal crises.
- Complexity of selected philosophy is not superiority. A rung’s usefulness matches your identity state and environment, not some civilizational high score.
- Philosophy as Periodic Maintenance: Crashing and philosophy sampling are maintenance actions on the place called identity.
#action #anxiety #Business #existentialAnxiety #existentialism #exploration #GTD #identity #Kierkegaard #lifeDesign #mentalModels #personalDevelopment #PeterPrinciple #philosophy #PlatoPlateau #productivity #selfImprovement #stoicism #systemsThinking
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The Plato Plateau
This post started off as a joke. I was attempting to snow clone the Peter Principle for philosophy. It led to a longer thread of thoughts. But first, the snow clone:
The Plato Plateau: People philosophize to the level of their anxiety.
Smoking farmer with branches by Kono Bairei (1844-1895). Digitally enhanced from our own original 1913 edition of Barei Gakan.- Anxiety is the realization that you have absolute choice over life – Kierkegaard. Anxiety, in this context is not nervousness. It is a positive thing when harnesses. We harness it everyday.
- Anxiety is a generative. Anxiety creates identity by locating stable places to launch exploration.
- Action, exploration, and anxiety are a motor. Anxiety → exploration → action → refreshed identity. Inaction leads to identity death
- Realizing you are radically free to choose can also lead to a forest of perceived signals. These can be an overwhelming inbox or simply overloaded ambition.
- When anxiety overwhelms it becomes difficult to tell signal from noise.
- Tools like GTD crash anxiety. When overwhelmed, GTD works well. When there is too little anxiety identity becomes ephemeral.
- GTD isn’t a means to nirvana: GTD integrates 10k, 30k foot views to reintroduce future anxiety.
- When your identity is smeared across too many anxieties you declare anxiety bankruptcy and crash your identity in some safe spot. Journals, sabbaticals, quitting.
- Like the parable of the rock soup, vaporized anxiety needs a place to condense onto. Ideally something disposable but sufficient to let your identity create an “ordered world of meaning”
- Life examination occurs with identity crashes. Philosophy provides just enough of a toehold in the abstract to spur action in the actual.
- Philosophy is a way to spur action absent anxiety/identity. We pick the philosophy depending on the degree of identity loss.
- Philosophy can be broadly sorted as:
- Survival – laws and tactics oriented
- Social Cohesion- harmony, virtue ethics, etiquette
- Systems level order – algorithms and protocols oriented
- Self Knowledge and Meaning – reflecting on existing and consciousness
- Meta-systems – theorizes about theories
- Most scientists and builders work best at level 3 systems level order. Going lower, i-ii, for environmental crises and higher, iv-v, for internal crises.
- Complexity of selected philosophy is not superiority. A rung’s usefulness matches your identity state and environment, not some civilizational high score.
- Philosophy as Periodic Maintenance: Crashing and philosophy sampling are maintenance actions on the place called identity.
#action #anxiety #Business #existentialAnxiety #existentialism #exploration #GTD #identity #Kierkegaard #lifeDesign #mentalModels #personalDevelopment #PeterPrinciple #philosophy #PlatoPlateau #productivity #selfImprovement #stoicism #systemsThinking
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The Plato Plateau
This post started off as a joke. I was attempting to snow clone the Peter Principle for philosophy. It led to a longer thread of thoughts. But first, the snow clone:
The Plato Plateau: People philosophize to the level of their anxiety.
Smoking farmer with branches by Kono Bairei (1844-1895). Digitally enhanced from our own original 1913 edition of Barei Gakan.- Anxiety is the realization that you have absolute choice over life – Kierkegaard. Anxiety, in this context is not nervousness. It is a positive thing when harnesses. We harness it everyday.
- Anxiety is a generative. Anxiety creates identity by locating stable places to launch exploration.
- Action, exploration, and anxiety are a motor. Anxiety → exploration → action → refreshed identity. Inaction leads to identity death
- Realizing you are radically free to choose can also lead to a forest of perceived signals. These can be an overwhelming inbox or simply overloaded ambition.
- When anxiety overwhelms it becomes difficult to tell signal from noise.
- Tools like GTD crash anxiety. When overwhelmed, GTD works well. When there is too little anxiety identity becomes ephemeral.
- GTD isn’t a means to nirvana: GTD integrates 10k, 30k foot views to reintroduce future anxiety.
- When your identity is smeared across too many anxieties you declare anxiety bankruptcy and crash your identity in some safe spot. Journals, sabbaticals, quitting.
- Like the parable of the rock soup, vaporized anxiety needs a place to condense onto. Ideally something disposable but sufficient to let your identity create an “ordered world of meaning”
- Life examination occurs with identity crashes. Philosophy provides just enough of a toehold in the abstract to spur action in the actual.
- Philosophy is a way to spur action absent anxiety/identity. We pick the philosophy depending on the degree of identity loss.
- Philosophy can be broadly sorted as:
- Survival – laws and tactics oriented
- Social Cohesion- harmony, virtue ethics, etiquette
- Systems level order – algorithms and protocols oriented
- Self Knowledge and Meaning – reflecting on existing and consciousness
- Meta-systems – theorizes about theories
- Most scientists and builders work best at level 3 systems level order. Going lower, i-ii, for environmental crises and higher, iv-v, for internal crises.
- Complexity of selected philosophy is not superiority. A rung’s usefulness matches your identity state and environment, not some civilizational high score.
- Philosophy as Periodic Maintenance: Crashing and philosophy sampling are maintenance actions on the place called identity.
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🔹 Build systems to handle life’s chaos.
🔹 Automate the mundane for peace.
🔹 Ambition doesn’t mean sacrificing contentment.#automation #productivity #lifedesign #peaceofmind #contentment #aicommunity
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🔹 Build systems to handle life’s chaos.
🔹 Automate the mundane for peace.
🔹 Ambition doesn’t mean sacrificing contentment.#automation #productivity #lifedesign #peaceofmind #contentment #aicommunity