hedging uncertainty - by Nix 🕊 - starting from nix ꩜

Quick housekeeping; I’m hosting my second irl meetup in San Francisco next weekend (Sunday). Last year’s was really fun. If you can make it, excited to meet you there! There’s only so much uncertainty one can stomach at any given moment in time. When you’re deeply uncertain about one part of your life, it’s necessary to find sturdiness in other areas, else you feel unmoored from reality. I call this hedging uncertainty. We make this calculus regularly on what knobs of life to turn at any given moment. Pull the peripheral levers, hope the center will hold. As Flaubert said, be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. My interpretation of Flaubert’s statement is that for you to feel psychologically safe to explore, you require other foundational methods of grounding yourself. The artist who wants to go full time into their art might require financial padding or an intellectual milieu that re-affirms their potential to take the leap. The entr

Quick housekeeping; I’m hosting my second irl meetup in San Francisco next weekend (Sunday). Last year’s was really fun. If you can make it, excited to meet you there! There’s only so much uncertainty one can stomach at any given moment in time. When you’re deeply uncertain about one part of your life, it’s necessary to find sturdiness in other areas, else you feel unmoored from reality. I call this hedging uncertainty. We make this calculus regularly on what knobs of life to turn at any given moment. Pull the peripheral levers, hope the center will hold. As Flaubert said, be regular and order