oooh what a gem on a Friday: A guy decides to document his proof that AI can influence the physical world because his buddy provoked him. proofofcorn.com/story - I hope he pulls through with it

So many people struggle with ADHD today, the CDC says 11.4% if children are affected. Why are there no dedicated education institutions for those?

How can we avoid the ongoing stigmatization and start emphasizing the extreme strengths of these minds and provide them the tools they need to thrive?

Don’t accept evil in your life

#MLKDay

Here's a Turkish proverb, this comes right after my incredulous citing the pope.

"Kaçan balık büyük olur"
or
"The uncaught fish are always the biggest".

Ask my why I'm so riddled with quotes these days. I guess it's about my ongoing re-e-VALUE-ation process, setting new values. See above.

There is always leverage. There is always something that will make change a must and not a should. Change is never a matter of ability, it’s always a matter of strong enough reasons, of motive.

-Tony Robbins in the DOAC podcast interview.

Man, I’ll have to listen to this again, this is good

If you have any kind of business that deals with customers, read this!

"When someone says they hate your product with a burning passion" open.substack.com/pub/lulu/p/r...

For anyone going through stuff, this one hit me where I needed it:

You are not what happened to you. You are how you chose to handle it.

I admire the choice of the past tense in the second half.

Thoughts are not truths.

Not sure who said it first, but it needs to be said again:

One doesn’t get good at something by not doing it.

The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have, the goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.

Simon Sinek in his evergreen TED talk “start with why” m.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Zo...

James O’Malley writes about the balance between comfort and community and the reboot of his covid-drowned social life.

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-might...

Call for inspiration:
Have you ever felt stuck in a rut? No idea what’s next in life and no starting point? Isolated yourself to the point that you don’t dare calling others for fear of rejection - but still haunted by the nagging feeling that something needs to happen?

How did you get out of it?

When life plays you a hard curveball, or when you feel you lost, it’s easy to give in, and give up. Suffering, complaining, projecting, analysis paralysis, the whole nine yards. For years. Decades even. Strong, all-consuming feelings.

Today I change. I commit to leaning into it.

#65: You will prevent yourself from even having thoughts that could lower your status. Avoid blocking yourself off just so people keep thinking you’re cool.

www.lesswrong.com/posts/7hFeMW...

The world can be beautiful and mysterious and wonderful and scary all at the same time.

Please note - @kollagesquare.bsky.social did *not* endorse this DPN holder; this is all my shenanigans 😌

As a middle-aged white woman I buried the last of those when I turned 40 😑

#KnitSky 🧶

Finally someone (Yasha Mounk) took a hard look at the World Happiness Report.

It only bases on one metric: the Cantril Ladder, that is, the country-wide average to the question “on which step (0-10) of an imaginary ladder do you rate your life right now”.

It does not consider affect(!)

Michael Ashcroft in “the appropriate amount of effort is zero” writes about how many of us have over time distorted our perception of how much effort is required for an activity.

expandingawareness.org/blog/the-app...