#spontaneity — Public Fediverse posts

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

And always, in our highly regularised way of life, [the modern man] is obsessed by thoughts of the morrow. Of all the precepts in the Gospels the one that Christians have most neglected is the commandment to take no thought for the morrow. If a man is prudent, thought for the morrow will lead him to save; if he is imprudent, it will make him apprehensive of being unable to pay his debts. In either case the moment loses its savour. Everything is organised, nothing is spontaneous.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-09), “The Role of Individuality,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 3, BBC Radio

More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/843…

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dreaming… a random bit

** in the ending of The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenges from WordPress, here’s your Sunday Weekly Photo Prompt: travel **

medicine buddha mantra: Tayata Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Radza Samudgate Soha

health, wealth, and prosperity: Om Vasudhare Svaha

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workshop

dreaming… a random bit

** in the ending of The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenges from WordPress, here’s your Sunday Weekly Photo Prompt: travel **

medicine buddha mantra: Tayata Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Radza Samudgate Soha

health, wealth, and prosperity: Om Vasudhare Svaha

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A quotation from Emerson

   A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his.
   In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

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A quotation from Emerson

   A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his.
   In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #emerson #ralphwaldoemerson #belief #believeinyourself #confidence #creativity #ego #genius #humility #idea #opinion #originality #pride #selfappreciation #selfapproval #selfbetrayal #selfcensorship #selfconfidence #selfconsciousness #selfcriticism #selfdefeating #selfdeprecating #selfeffacing #selfesteem #selfjudgment #selfquestioning #selfreproach #selfsabotage #selftrust #spontaneity #trustyourself

@vonfriedland

Vielleicht ist das zum einen ebenso so eine kulturelle Frage, wie auch der persönlichen Vorlieben?

Kulturell, weil es in anderen Regionen dieser Erde durchaus tradiert ist, spontanen, unangekündigten Besuch erfreut einzulassen, wohingegen es in Deutschland schon als grobe Ungehörigkeit gilt, auch nur um 29 Uhr anzurufen.

Was persönliche Vorlieben angeht, so kenne ich um Freund:innenkreis Menschen die sich tatsächlich über spontanen Besuch freuen.

Psychologisch finde ich die Ablehnung spannend: Unangekündigter Besuch unterbricht die kontrollierte Alltagsordnung und viele Menschen, ich ebenfalls, haben ein Bedürfnis nach Kontrolle über Zeit und soziale Interaktion. Spontaner Besuch wird dann als Eingriff in die persönliche Autonomie erlebt.

#autonomie #besuch #spontaneity #Spontanität #unangekundigt #sonntag

@vonfriedland

Vielleicht ist das zum einen ebenso so eine kulturelle Frage, wie auch der persönlichen Vorlieben?

Kulturell, weil es in anderen Regionen dieser Erde durchaus tradiert ist, spontanen, unangekündigten Besuch erfreut einzulassen, wohingegen es in Deutschland schon als grobe Ungehörigkeit gilt, auch nur um 29 Uhr anzurufen.

Was persönliche Vorlieben angeht, so kenne ich um Freund:innenkreis Menschen die sich tatsächlich über spontanen Besuch freuen.

Psychologisch finde ich die Ablehnung spannend: Unangekündigter Besuch unterbricht die kontrollierte Alltagsordnung und viele Menschen, ich ebenfalls, haben ein Bedürfnis nach Kontrolle über Zeit und soziale Interaktion. Spontaner Besuch wird dann als Eingriff in die persönliche Autonomie erlebt.

#autonomie #besuch #spontaneity #Spontanität #unangekundigt #sonntag

Stop over-planning and start living. Leave the phone and follow your curiosity. #Spontaneity #Disconnect #Adventure

https://artsincubator.ca/motivation/real-world-spontaneity.html

Understanding Trade: Beyond Tariffs and Goods

https://chandrasekarsn.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/understanding-trade-beyond-tariffs-and-goods/

🤔 Ah yes, another riveting exploration into the soul of software companies, where predictability is king and #spontaneity is the court jester. 📈 Remember folks, #efficiency is just a minor casualty in the war for #transparency, because who needs #adaptability when you have an endless spreadsheet of metrics? 🙃
https://www.seangoedecke.com/seeing-like-a-software-company/ #softwarecompanies #metrics #HackerNews #ngated

🤔 Ah yes, another riveting exploration into the soul of software companies, where predictability is king and #spontaneity is the court jester. 📈 Remember folks, #efficiency is just a minor casualty in the war for #transparency, because who needs #adaptability when you have an endless spreadsheet of metrics? 🙃
https://www.seangoedecke.com/seeing-like-a-software-company/ #softwarecompanies #metrics #HackerNews #ngated

#Chán #Buddhism in #China emerged through dynamic interaction with #Daoism and #Confucianism. #Daoist concepts like #spontaneity, non-action, and receptivity shaped Chán’s style and practice, while Confucianism influenced #ethics and social structure. In this post, we briefly examine, who Chán remained distinctly Buddhist, yet deeply adapted to Chinese thought:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-07-12-chan_vs_daoism/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

#Chán #Buddhism in #China emerged through dynamic interaction with #Daoism and #Confucianism. #Daoist concepts like #spontaneity, non-action, and receptivity shaped Chán’s style and practice, while Confucianism influenced #ethics and social structure. In this post, we briefly examine, who Chán remained distinctly Buddhist, yet deeply adapted to Chinese thought:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-07-12-chan_vs_daoism/

#WeekendStories #Buddhism

Embrace the uncertainty

Ever since Werner Heisenberg formulated the uncertainty principle, physics has been grappling with the unsettling realization that the universe does not function like clockwork—a metaphor Newton introduced and which held sway for centuries. In a world where predictability and uncertainty intertwine, interpretations range from die-hard determinists, who reject quantum events despite the mounting evidence, to more esoteric merchants of doubt who exploit the ambiguity.

If Werner Heisenberg […]

https://bjoern.brembs.net/2025/07/embrace-the-uncertainty/

📸 Capturing the beauty of spontaneity! 🌸

The laughter, the dreamy gazes, books under their arms, and the energy of those who’ve just finished school: photographing young girls on the street in these moments is pure magic. ✨ Each shot tells a unique story, a moment of freedom and lightness. 🏫💫
What’s your favorite moment to capture? 📷 Share in the comments! ⬇️
#Photography #Moments #Spontaneity #Youth #Street #School #AuthenticBeauty #milano #italy #italia #fotografia #love #instagram

This summer, the St. Kitts Tourism Authority invites travelers to experience “Summer Unscripted” — a call to embrace #spontaneity and discover #StKitts on their own terms. https://www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article/fly-from-charlotte-new-york-miami-atlanta-newark-toronto-and-london-to-st-kitts-and-unlock-a-summer-of-spontaneous-exploration/

@fedivideo

46:06 "The next time I see you remind me not to talk with you, will you?

This is the spirit of #spontaneity and #improvisation. They were testing stuff out and to me it's obvious that here they were testing things and this is also sort of an in-joke between actors. Maybe not but at least it gave me an impression of that it might be something like that. One actor thinking the other actor's #creativity was too #mundane and responded.

Then they decided to keep it in!

#GOLDEN!

It is pure fantasy to think that you could have done things differently or lived your life any other way.

This dream of an imagined past feeds an equally unhelpful delusion of the future in which you consciously learn and strive to change ‘yourself’ and do things differently.

All of these behaviours and activities happen, of course, but not as the result of conscious so-called will but automatically and spontaneously from our unconscious.

We do what we do when we do it whatever our conscious awareness may declare to the contrary.

Our thoughts and ideas are the least of us. Always late to the party that’s already in full swing, uninvited yet full of their own self importance and righteousness. Taking credit for everything and responsibility for nothing.

#awareness #change #consciousness #delusion #fantasy #freeWill #future #mind #past #responsibility #spontaneity #unconsciousness

The #Spontaneity landing page is live! Sign up to the early access list to be first in line to get access to the beta, help shape the direction of the app, and get exclusive launch day perks!

https://TrySpontaneity.app

#ADHD #Neurodiversity #BuildInPublic #SoloDev

💡 #Spontaneity landing page in progress, but coming soon! #ADHD #Neurodiversity #BuildInPublic #IndieDev

💡 #Spontaneity landing page in progress, but coming soon! #ADHD #Neurodiversity #BuildInPublic #IndieDev

I bought a domain for the app and am in the process of setting up a landing page. Once I can redefine the MVP features I’ll be able to write some copy for the landing page, which will have a signup form for anyone that wants to stay up to date on when the app will enter beta & launch!

#Spontaneity #ADHD #Neurodiversity #BuildInPublic

This weekend I’ll be focused on redefining the MVP. I’m very excited by the new ideas I came away with, but need to prioritize what belongs in the MVP and what can be iterated towards post launch.

#Spontaneity #ADHD #Neurodiversity #BuildInPublic

The responses:

- validated the main app idea & some of the features I have planned for post launch
- made me rethink exactly what the MVP will look like
- as usual with user feedback, there was one question whose response was overwhelmingly not what I expected!

#Spontaneity #ADHD #Neurodiversity #BuildInPublic

The feedback I got several days ago was SO helpful. I’m supremely grateful for those that participated in the questionnaire I posted, thank you all! It’s a great problem that I surpassed the typeform free account response limit and had to upgrade my account.

#Spontaneity #ADHD #Neurodiversity #BuildInPublic

I like to buy flowers for my wife. If I set a fixed reminder to do this on the 1st of every month, it can feel scripted, which takes away from the gesture.

With #Spontaneity, I can set a rolling reminder to buy flowers sometime within the next month, keeping it feeling thoughtful and genuine. When that task is marked completed, then the next reminder is calculated within the following month (with a buffer ensuring two reminders don’t happen too close together).

#ADHD #Neurodiversity

I like to buy flowers for my wife. If I set a fixed reminder to do this on the 1st of every month, it can feel scripted, which takes away from the gesture.

With #Spontaneity, I can set a rolling reminder to buy flowers sometime within the next month, keeping it feeling thoughtful and genuine. When that task is marked completed, then the next reminder is calculated within the following month (with a buffer ensuring two reminders don’t happen too close together).

#ADHD #Neurodiversity

If you have #ADHD like me, you know that if it’s not written down, it might as well not exist. But no one wants to feel like just another task on a todo list. That’s why I’m building #Spontaneity for flexible, spontaneous reminders — gentle nudges that keep things thoughtful.

#Neurodiversity

Supporting both my custom spontaneous reminders and traditional reminders has been a bit of a challenge as far as the UI goes. I have a few ideas for how to move forward, but would love your thoughts. If you’re willing to take a quick survey to share your feedback on some key features for Spontaneity, help shape the app, and be considered for the beta I’d be immensely grateful:

https://3imnqhflufo.typeform.com/to/ugcamYY5

#ADHD #Neurodiversity #BuildInPublic #Spontaneity

The last few days I’ve primarily been working on the user flow, the UI, and the Supabase edge function for creating reminders. Spontaneous reminders will be the secret sauce that I'm sure will take iterations of tweaking to get right.

#Spontaneity #adhd #buildinpublic #reactnative

I've gotten some basic theming working, so the app appearance will change based on a toggle on the settings page. I'm not set on the color combinations for either light or dark mode, but I'm glad to have the toggle working for now!

Today I also learned about a Shopify package that would’ve handled this, but now I know for next time.

#Spontaneity #BuildInPublic #ADHD #ReactNative

Here's a start:

1. Landing page setup ✅
2. Signup via email & signup/login via Apple working via Supabase ✅
3. Reminders being pulled via Supabase db ✅
4. Actually cheered out loud and sent my wife a text with the success message when I created the first reminder through the app’s UI 🕺

#Spontaneity #BuildInPublic #ADHD #IndieDev #ReactNative

Here's a start:

1. Landing page setup ✅
2. Signup via email & signup/login via Apple working via Supabase ✅
3. Reminders being pulled via Supabase db ✅
4. Actually cheered out loud and sent my wife a text with the success message when I created the first reminder through the app’s UI 🕺

#Spontaneity #BuildInPublic #ADHD #IndieDev #ReactNative

Hey everyone! It's been 10 days since my last #Spontaneity update, but I'll be sharing plenty this weekend. Here's some highlights:

The good: Made huge strides in development. The app is really taking shape!

The bad: I maaaaaay have neglected the marketing & communcations side a bit. Oops.

Balancing a full-time job, family life, and app development (planning, coding, and marketing) is challenging. Fellow devs, how do you manage it all?

#BuildInPublic #ADHD #IndieDev #ReactNative

Hey everyone! It's been 10 days since my last #Spontaneity update, but I'll be sharing plenty this weekend. Here's some highlights:

The good: Made huge strides in development. The app is really taking shape!

The bad: I maaaaaay have neglected the marketing & communcations side a bit. Oops.

Balancing a full-time job, family life, and app development (planning, coding, and marketing) is challenging. Fellow devs, how do you manage it all?

#BuildInPublic #ADHD #IndieDev #ReactNative

🚀 Spontaneity Update 2 🚀

Excited to share the latest progress on Spontaneity, my productivity app for individuals with ADHD!

✨ Expanded scope with new features
✨ Data schema set, frontend development in progress
✨ Sneak peek of the home screen
✨ Balancing launch with personal life (baby due in January!)

Check out the full update here: https://hyperfocus.dev/posts/spontaneity-public-post-2/

Your feedback means the world to me!

#BuildInPublic #ADHD #IndieDev #Productivity #Spontaneity #ReactNative

🚀 Spontaneity Update 2 🚀

Excited to share the latest progress on Spontaneity, my productivity app for individuals with ADHD!

✨ Expanded scope with new features
✨ Data schema set, frontend development in progress
✨ Sneak peek of the home screen
✨ Balancing launch with personal life (baby due in January!)

Check out the full update here: https://hyperfocus.dev/posts/spontaneity-public-post-2/

Your feedback means the world to me!

#BuildInPublic #ADHD #IndieDev #Productivity #Spontaneity #ReactNative

I'll be drafting up a new blog post going into all the progress made this week in the upcoming days. I don't believe I shared the last blog post here, so if you want to follow along here it is:

https://hyperfocus.dev/posts/spontaneity-public-post-1/

#Spontaneity #ReactNative #indiedev #buildinpublic

I'll be drafting up a new blog post going into all the progress made this week in the upcoming days. I don't believe I shared the last blog post here, so if you want to follow along here it is:

https://hyperfocus.dev/posts/spontaneity-public-post-1/

#Spontaneity #ReactNative #indiedev #buildinpublic

Getting the calendar and reminder list to stay in sync, whether you click the calendar or scroll the list, was challenging. It also had to default to today on the reminder list. It took me almost a full day of on-and-off work to figure it out. The animation still needs smoothing out, but I already have an idea for that and have documented it to revisit later.

#indiedev #buildinpublic #ReactNative #Spontaneity

Getting the calendar and reminder list to stay in sync, whether you click the calendar or scroll the list, was challenging. It also had to default to today on the reminder list. It took me almost a full day of on-and-off work to figure it out. The animation still needs smoothing out, but I already have an idea for that and have documented it to revisit later.

#indiedev #buildinpublic #ReactNative #Spontaneity

Here’s a sneak peak of the home screen so far. It’s important to note I still have to finalize the brand color way, but I’m happy with the progress made so far.
#Spontaneity #indiedev #buildinpublic #ReactNative

Here’s a sneak peak of the home screen so far. It’s important to note I still have to finalize the brand color way, but I’m happy with the progress made so far.
#Spontaneity #indiedev #buildinpublic #ReactNative

I initialized the project using what ended up being a pretty great repo with a CLI setting up #ReactNative with Expo, Typescript, NativeWind, and Supabase for the backend: https://github.com/roninoss/create-expo-stack

#Spontaneity #indiedev #buildinpublic

I initialized the project using what ended up being a pretty great repo with a CLI setting up #ReactNative with Expo, Typescript, NativeWind, and Supabase for the backend: https://github.com/roninoss/create-expo-stack

#Spontaneity #indiedev #buildinpublic

Got my data schema to a decent place, decent enough to get the frontend started. You can view it here: https://dbdiagram.io/d/66f0b150a0828f8aa6ade1c6

#Spontaneity #indiedev #buildinpublic #ReactNative

Got my data schema to a decent place, decent enough to get the frontend started. You can view it here: https://dbdiagram.io/d/66f0b150a0828f8aa6ade1c6

#Spontaneity #indiedev #buildinpublic #ReactNative

Another hectic week! I've been deep in #Spontaneity the past few days and what I'm planning for the initial launch. I'm happy to say I've made enough progress to feel good about expanding the scope for launch.

As far as setting a date for the launch, I have 2 things I'm taking into consideration:

1. My son is due to be born in January
2. I don't want to launch right before he's born and then be unable to provide the app with the support it needs.

#indiedev #buildinpublic #ReactNative

Another hectic week! I've been deep in #Spontaneity the past few days and what I'm planning for the initial launch. I'm happy to say I've made enough progress to feel good about expanding the scope for launch.

As far as setting a date for the launch, I have 2 things I'm taking into consideration:

1. My son is due to be born in January
2. I don't want to launch right before he's born and then be unable to provide the app with the support it needs.

#indiedev #buildinpublic #ReactNative

"In photography you have to make a tremendous effort not to repeat. Because the camera repeats and repeats and repeats. So you have to be strong and inventive and believe in something that you can change in it." [at 01:11]

Robert Frank (1924- 2019). The alchemist photographer who melts the spontanous and anarchic element into the documentary tradition.

A sympathetic and moving TV portrait of the man, by Gerald Fox (2004).

https://archive.org/details/rfrankLHCH

#RobertFrank #Photography #spontaneity #art