Extremists fail and fall because the path requires balance.
It is inspiring that even when a person may be deeply flawed, they can still rise above all the frictions and misunderstandings of their day, to display moments of grace and greatness.
I love the tech revolution that has happened during my lifetime ❤️
Presumably the “GAMAM” tech companies don’t want to use the obvious anagram “GAMMA”, because of connotations with third-rate radioactive decay?
Generals at totalitarian rallies look like clowns.
Autocrats twist the rightful love of community into grotesque, violent delusion.
Contorted minds create hell on earth.
Non-fungible performances interest me. I’m thinking of issuing a few.
Kierkegaard’s romance with Regine Olsen would make a good dramatisation.
Ferocity and love as a combination captivates people, especially when sincere.
It’s this order at the moment: Writing, Performance (Acting/Singing), Music, Art, Tech. I’m enjoying engaging in all these areas.
Viral videos and images are fun in small doses, but the drug can become addictive and unfulfilling. I prefer to read articles on news aggregator apps or Twitter, wary of the incentives and angles that people take, like a historian might be when viewing secondary sources.
TikTok is like aimlessly switching on the television and flicking channels. Instagram is an extension of reality tv. Facebook is a legacy platform, originally designed for sharing updates with friends and family, though messaging apps are probably better for this now.
YouTube is a great library of videos that should be actively searched rather than passively received, as my feed is now gunked up with spam. Twitter can be interesting to read, after filtering out the crappy posts and comments.
Invest where people who know what they are doing put their own capital. Or better still, invest in them. If you believe in what they are doing and you believe in them, then you have found the perfect combination.
Products and services improve when the providers are also keen users.
Trying to look older would mean experience is valued over the skin-deep.
Schools teach children to fit into a uniform.
Inflexibility often manifests in people who believe that whatever they think determines external reality.
Doing nothing isn’t preferable.
Notice. Are you able to describe the person you just talked to? Or the room you were just in? Or even the object in your hand? Do you notice what you are doing?
To be offended is to be wrong. Nasty behaviour thrown in your direction isn’t condoned, you might choose to respond, but why should their words actually harm you?
Many thirst in the desert of shiny things.
The accumulation effect of small moments can be enormous.
The challenge is to release what is within you, uncorrupted by falsity and lies.
Regardless of whether you think you are succeeding or failing, you must not ease up, in any respect, because events always happen.
For sure it is smart to learn from the experience of others, but the lessons can be more thoroughly learnt if you make the mistakes yourself.
I love that moment of bafflement when a person is looking at you and thinking “what the?” It usually ends in either awkward or full laughter.
If nervous or stressed about doing something, say to yourself “I’ll be dead soon” and do it anyway.
I think psychopaths don’t understand that threats have no effect on people who are truly pissed off. There is no room for fear when a person is angered, only destruction.
An empowered society creates and innovates. Empowered authoritarians corrupt and suffocate.
Work journals help elucidate what is happening and why.
An important question to ask one’s own thoughts is, “Who is talking?” Now you know, do you want to let that voice speak? A human does not have one identity, or set of impulses.
My logic reasons that I should be Agnostic, but belief in “God” is embedded in me, even though I can’t define what that word means.
Fall in love with doing. Love to do and you will have the energy to do it.
Comfort is for snoozing not moving.
Freedom provides the opportunity to create.
Curiosity initiates understanding and invention.
What do you have to say? Experience. Think and write. Then say, entertainingly.
Art happens when imagination and reality are one.
Difference has a cost and the highest return.
An algorithm, a method, is enormously powerful when perfectly applied.
I sincerely hope we are able to spread humanity rather than psychopathy onto other planets.
Twitter can be an opportunity to read more.
If I write something, I can also read the text on video and include in the tweet. I could use hashtag logic such as #H1C0S1T1 to index the content of Human World – where H = Human World (Novel), C = Chapter, S = Section (Thread), T = Tweet.
Random Thoughts:
Bravery is a smile in extreme adversity. Faith is the understanding that this light will prevail.
If there is advanced alien life out there, they would probably have the technology to hide themselves from us and would probably be watching us. Whether they would want to intervene, I have no idea.
The main utility of social media platforms:
I used to grumble about wind turbines but now I’ve changed my mind. In my mind they’ve become monuments standing tall in all weather against humanity’s primitive past. It doesn’t matter how cloudy the skies, the arms will turn.
A debate is just gladiatorial spectacle, but a discussion should be a real-time exchange of thinking, with new ideas developed together as an outcome. Written bullet points provide more time for the receiver to think through the issues.
For me at least, the television has been replaced for news and entertainment by phone apps. The zombification factor is lower if there is more interaction and dynamic content.
Anyone who likes me has excellent taste.
Rob Walker 