Gathering thoughts…
A world of little thoughts.
“Acho que vocês deveriam sonhar a terra, pois ela tem coração e respira.” —- Davi Kopenawa, entrevista a F. Watson. Breu, mas o escuro não impedia a visão, a floresta trazia conforto e não medo, haviam muitas flores tropicais com os mais sedutores tons, as ciano eram leves e moviam lentamente com o vento, as de…
You started to feel anxious because You are comparing yourself to your friends subconsciously Your brain tells you and giving you signals that you didn’t know “Preparing yourself” don’t mean you need to putting yourself into stressful situations It just means adjusting your mindset That given certain situations - what…
无形的力量 There’s some power that you can’t be seen Discipline Trust Vision Knowledge All these are not superficial All powerful things are not visible. Not in clubs Not in monetary terms Used to feel so weak or anxious Because I didn’t practice discipline which would make me strong Some people consider music as power…
It seems like someone disagrees with the previous poster: === anon2080 Don't let the naysayers fool you. The Art Symposium was a success and will benefit all artists in the region. The government's role is not to dictate what kind of art should be produced or consumed but to provide the resources and support that…
in philosophy, epoche is a method to completely isolate our perception from preconceived notions about it. it's bare thoughts, unpolluted by judgement, bias, prejudice. the truth takes birth here, and then it is distorted by our imposition of existing confirmational bias on it. if the core truth is absolute (there…
The anti-hustle people will tell you that if you're procrastinating on something, it doesn't mean you're a lazy good-for-nothing loser. It means your subconscious is sending you an important message. At the time of writing, I've just spent 5 hours pointedly not doing the real-life paid work that has been stressing me…
conheci o nicheless pela newsletter da lalai e me apaixonei logo pelo layout, design e proposta. mas ficava sempre na cabeça a necessidade de firmar um compromisso de escrever todo dia ou coisa parecida. resolvi ser descompromissada. escrever quando quiser, mas quem sabe arranjar um jeito de lembrar mais facilmente de…
There’s a new post about the art drama in the region: === anon6232 I got to say, Dr. Caleb’s presentation at the Arts Symposium was surprisingly good. He is good at what he does, and he is well-intentioned. No one in our zine has denied this. At Clan•Destinos we feel it’s our obligation to point out the blind spots of…
Vivi a última noite numa pista cheia de gente feliz e fervida. Encontrei amigos e conhecidos que não via há tempos. A música era boa. Dancei com a Ludo, Nino, Raquel, Guima e Chiara. Os DJs Vermelho, Davis, Âme&Dixon. Entortei de vez para o techno. Dancei. Derreti. Tomei cerveja bem gelada. As luzes estavam bonitas,…
"Hating myself for not going into Azuki at 8ETH last week" or something along the lines is one of the most common tweet I've been seeing over the past couple of days. Or "Sold my Azuki at 5ETH ngmi." It's easy to say this with hindsight, but in the back of my mind, I know that 90% of the people who say probably…
I'm discovering that when hardship strikes, it's tempting to wallow in self-doubt, but it’s more rewarding to put in the effort to prevail. Don't get me wrong, feelings are important but in the long run if your feelings keep you stagnant - then it's time to activate your will and fight for the outcomes you truly…
Every some years, a band comes from left field and knocks your socks off. You have no expectation of them, maybe you'd never heard of them before. Leaving aside the bands of my early growing up years, bands or artists that have had that effect on me have included The Talking Heads, The Stone Roses, Nick Cave and the…
Of course it's been pointed out with increasing frequency of late, but I believe it bears repeating. This addiction to seeking out the comfort of the likeminded to the exclusivity of all others and recoiling from the sheer audacity of differently-minded people to exist cannot possibly lead to anything good in the long…
Coming to terms with failing in big or small things is a difficult and ongoing challenge baked into life. It’s the struggle for perfection in whatever way we define it and the realization that it is not attainable. There is no perfect. There is just the pursuit and recovery. Getting tied to the idea of perfection only…
It finally happened. I dipped my pen nib into my morning coffee. Should have put a lid on the cup. Can't dip in the wrong container if there's a lid over one of the liquids. Another drawback to drinking coffee black; out of the corner of your eye, it looks like your ink. One of those moments you figured would…
Na newsletter Nevoeiro, que eu adoro, a autora destacou o seguinte trecho do livro A nausea, de Jean-Paul Sartre: "é preciso escolher: viver ou contar. Por exemplo, quando eu estava em Hamburgo, com uma certa Erna, de quem eu desconfiava e que tinha medo de mim, eu levava uma vida estranha. Mas eu estava vivendo…
I used to get angry and edgy about small things, which did not happen as per my liking. Coming home and seeing someone moved the AC remote from its usual place or moved a bowl on the table. I started acknowledging. Thinking why I am like this. Why is this a big deal. The more I thought, the worse it became.…
We hadn't formally launched Trilegal yet when my friend Vinay, who was with a law firm in London, called. It was early March 2000. Him: "Have you guys opened for business yet?" Me: "Why do you ask?" Him: "Because I have a deal for you." Me, struggling to hide excitement: "Well yes, then we're open." This was a…
Today I changed the layout of my phone. Home screen has only three widgets: Google Search, Spotify, My Tasks. Next screen has Weather, Gmail, and eight spots for apps. Next screen has only a calendar. I doom scroll entirely too much and this is an attempt to stop that. So far, so good. I intend on contributing a daily…
I'm talking about structures - more specifically incentive structures. Politics, economies, sports teams, companies are all driven by incentives Those that set up well calibrated incentive structures are the most successful That's why capitalism (with regulation to account for self-centeredness of humankind) works so…
When we spotted her garden from far away we were theorising on what could be growing. One of her family members spotted us leaf and drain inspectors. They rolled their eyes and made way for Ajita kakima to take charge. The matriarch introduced all the trees like her old friends. There was jamun, mango, banana,…
I am wondering what it takes to be all right today or on other days. Yesterday — or maybe two yesterdays ago — I was unsteady. I woke up and the breaths didn't want to escape my lungs through my mouth or their proper airways. I realize what was calling to me wasn't the mortal drag of my eventual drop to the ground.…
1. find a dark crevice to escape to. under your bed, behind a heavy curtain, in your closet, on a long walk in the middle of the night. usually its scary when you can’t see anything around you, but in these moments, let the emptiness of this blank palette make space for your racing mind. 2. notice the colors. the 8…
I don't really have much to write for today, so let me see: 1. Mehul's birthday party: I spent 15 minutes trying to get a unruly bunch of teenagers to play darts. It wasn't as annoying as i thought it would be, though. I pretty much jumped into auto-pilot mood of needing to take-charge 2. Pitch night by Build: I…
Hj eu queimei a largada na hora de dormir e agora são 00:32 e estou acordada. Fui trabalhar, cheguei em casa, li um pouco e levei as doguinhas para passear. Depois a amg operada pediu pra eu buscar umas coisas pra ela na farmácia. Acabou que não tinha o curativo que ela precisava, só em loja de materiais cirúrgicos.…
A quick thought; Interesting results for AI portraits come when a prompt is structured with two genders. An example prompt; a photograph of a woman by Man Ray. Thinking about how this sentence can be confused and how the AI could be interpreted. The woman is taken as priority, it guides the overall features, then Man…
Questioning the notion of free will seems to be in fashion nowadays. So what is this idea of "free will?" I think a lot of us have an intuitive sense of what it is. It's the idea that our personal sense of agency or identity is what originates our actions. Who does what we do? Well, we do. If you're out for a walk…
Alguien regresó diciendo: "He visto al lobo estepario, lo ví, existe"... Había un lobo jovén y fuerte, el futuro líder de la manada. Pero un día, el lobo decidió dejar la manada y se marchó, caminó durante días. Al final, llegó a un lugar hermoso, con montañas, ríos y bosques. El lobo se quedó allí. Un día, una manada…
I started out with a writing goal of everyday and I literally forgot the very next day to write a post :( Nevertheless, I'm convincing myself that writing is a skill to be learnt and it happens slowly. So I'm trying not to be hard on myself. Today I want to write about something which I have struggling with this in…
Today I had dinner with the marketing head of a client of mine. We had nice conversations but one thing particularly struck me: How genuinely helpful and supportive she was. In the course of the evening she proactively offered help and support on several topics, without expecting anything in return. I'm always…
Know what others have that you don’t have. Don’t focus on what they don’t have. Focus on what will benefit you I want you to - Take accountability of things you didn’t DO Rather than trying to delay using time To do it NOW And not doing it - that’s the difference between success and stagnant Doesn’t matter if you…
I like how dreams work. (no not the one you see with eyes wide open) Every day is a new beginning. You never know what's coming next. I always wanted to do bungee jumping. It's one of the few dreams I have. but a few weeks back, I just did that in my dreams. The next morning I woke up sad because now I know how it…
if i wanted to lie to you, i'd say the storm inside you will settle. it will not. see the thing no one tells us about storms is that they're not meant to destroy. i think a storm was a child whose mother never held his hand when he was scared. or maybe the storm didn't know how to tell his mother that he was scared.…
When studying something Im not particularly a fan of I just eat, not because of hunger, but because of the necessity to stay awake. This happens even if I try all the tips and tricks from studying with other people, taking breaks, sitting in the right positions, making it interactive... my eyes just close. Starting to…
I don't need another platform for writing. I have a Medium page and a Substack newsletter and very little incentive to build an audience in yet another corner of the internet. I like the idea of a 300 word limit. But not enough for that to be why I use Nicheless. ... and yet here I am. I am toying with the idea of…
15 months ago I left my home and moved to NYC, marking my entry into the most socially disconnected phase of my life. Faced with the formidable foe of newfound isolation, I wanted to hold on to those in Seattle who made me feel like a loved member of humanity. I felt optimistic that maintaining contact over the phone…
I saw a tweet by Democratic congressman Ritchie Torres accusing dissident journalist Glenn Greenwald of being a "useful idiot" for believing the fake backstory of recently elected Republican congressman George Santos. I know who the first two people are, and I've never heard of the third. I Google his name and the…
grab a bottle of omega-3 and, as you take out one serving size, say "do you want some?" without further explanation
i love megan boyle in ways i can never love a person i meet in "real life" because she exists in words in books and articles that i can choose to pick up and put down -- she doesn't require "live" response and it is an honest relationship in which i do not have to pretend to enjoy anything so if she's really into…
Bom, vamos lá. VIRADOURO, NÉ? CAMPEÃ, na minha opinião! Que lindeza a homenagem que fizeram pro mestre Ciça na Sapucaí. O desfile foi surpreendente do inicio ao fim. Todo mundo lindo, feliz e, mais importante, emocionado. Realmente, tem gente que faz muita diferença né? Ele próprio estava emocionadíssimo, totalmente…
meu amigo mudou o número de telefone e foi aí que percebi que em algum momento eu havia perdido a minha grande habilidade de decorar números de telefone. fiquei imersa na reflexão do que poderia ter sido a causa da perda da minha habilidade por cerca de cinco minutos. eu me gabava por saber de cor os números dos meus…
I have been a heavy user of the internet since 2000. There were years between 2012 and 2016 when I was very active on social media. Since then I have shied away from maintaining any online identity. There has been a constant urge to build an anonymous identity (to find like minded people) but I don’t want to build any…
This is my first post on nicheless. It seems like an interesting microblogging app. I like how minimalist the interface is. I even like this font. The onboarding process was easy. Getting the web page as an app icon on my iPhone screen was seamless. 300 words is a lot. That last word was my 50th. I wonder how this…
You've read or heard the quote before. Doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. - Albert Einstein It's a very famous one thrown around online to the point that's almost becoming a cliché. And yet... That's what many people do daily, myself included some times...…
Persist, For this cloud too Shall pass. Well, what can I say except that I have old school work ethic. But this mindset is certainly rewarding - not necessarily in terms of material success, but certainly in terms of mental peace. Persistence. To persist is to stay on despite the odds. Persistence derives its energy…
I saw the movie, the score stole the show, and Zuck was in my memory, not cool. life carried on and being snide about Facebook and Mark became easy and status quo. Then I read a a blog and the author remarked about how smart Mark was and how he was the fastest learning she ever met. And I thought to myself “have I…
I never fail to have something to be grateful for. How can this be? My life is ordinary. I have a good life, with a home, food, and health. My ordinary doesn't look like your ordinary. For all of us many days look almost identical. You can only write the same thing in your gratitude journal so many times, right? The…
Making a few bad decisions is preferable to remaining indecisive. As soon as I stop wavering and instead commit to a concrete plan, the clarity and direction it brings feel both right and rewarding. Decisiveness and concreteness not only accelerates progress but also builds confidence.
