Ben James

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generally living in ‘explore’ mode at various points in life, while recognising that not every avenue will lead to a jackpot.
Becoming a magician – Autotranslucence
And regardless of your skills and experience, it is likely that you are a magician to someone else
Becoming a magician – Autotranslucence
And yet, ten years ago when I encountered the website of the World Bodypainting Festival, as not-yet-a-bodypainter, literally every image on the website was in that category for me.
Becoming a magician – Autotranslucence
The feeling I get, as a very good bodypainter looking at Sanatan’s work, is that I am looking at magic. And that, in fact, is my definition of magic – competence so much more advanced than yours with such alien mental models that you cannot predict the outcomes of the model at all.
Becoming a magician – Autotranslucence
Kimo’s high expectations set a new pace for me. He taught me that “the standard pace is for chumps” — that the system is designed so anyone can keep up. If you’re more driven than most people, you can do way more than anyone expects. And this principle applies to all of life, not just school.
There’s no speed limit
Getting lost in your knowledge management system is a fantastic way to avoid creating things. Or calling that friend you’re estranged from. Or doing anything else even mildly threatening. It’s also a fantastic way to convince yourself that unpreparedness is what’s between you and creative work.
Notes Against Note-Taking Systems - by Sasha Chapin
Contrary to early hopes that a win - win narrative might stimul ate sufficient voluntary action to constitute ‘enough sustainability’, the learning has emphatically been that win - win cannot scale to deliver enough ecological improvement, fast enough. This difficult truth can no longer be ignored
2021-05-17-Win-Win-in-the-Time-of-Net-Zero-Final-16pp.pdf
The win-win claim of sustainable business has always tacitly depended on the ecological ‘win’ being defined as ‘more sustainable than before’. In contrast, the net zero imperative emanates from the very different perspective that we need to achieve ‘enough sustainability before it is too late’.
From Win-Win to Net Zero: Would The Real Sustainability Please Now Stand Up? – Both Brains Required
[M]any of the impacts described in this research paper are likely to be locked in by 2040 and become so severe they go beyond the limits of what nations can adapt to.
The future of climate: do you have any idea what's really coming?
Conversely, people routinely assume that I am among the best programmers they know entirely because a) there exists observable evidence that I can program and b) I write and speak really, really well.
Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software
rs, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this
Curius / Onboarding