Chloe-Amelie Aikman

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If someone likes you best when you are vague, it means they fell in love with what they painted over you, not the actual contours of your selfhood.
speak so you can be found - by maja - velvet noise
But when being the thing becomes your whole identity, the meta becomes all the material.
Earn Something To Say - by Chisel and Anu - Chisel
The market for insight has been subsumed by public intellectual theater – everyone is a performer now.
Earn Something To Say - by Chisel and Anu - Chisel
The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.
the key to love is understanding - by maja - velvet noise
Real love, the kind I dream about, feels like an endless conversation, one that never really stops, just takes pauses to eat or sleep or kiss.
the key to love is understanding - by maja - velvet noise
Carl Jung once described addicts as frustrated mystics
You're probably addicted to thinking - by Alex Olshonsky
Across all cultures, sages have told us that you can set down your compulsive inner commentary and discover that something deeper has been living you all along.
You're probably addicted to thinking - by Alex Olshonsky
yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind. Everything else—the postures, breathwork, ethical precepts—is just preparation for releasing your grip on mental noise.
You're probably addicted to thinking - by Alex Olshonsky
We are, all of us, drawn into dopamine-driven loops that gradually narrow our perspective and agency around whatever helps us avoid pain, a dynamic called reciprocal narrowing.
You're probably addicted to thinking - by Alex Olshonsky
What a prize you are. What a lucky sack of stars.
Poem of the Day | Poetry Foundation
Love eventually wants your ordinary self.
Why Intelligent People Often Struggle With Love
Doing things is energizing, wasting time is depressing. You don’t need that much ‘rest’.
How not to forget what matters
ypomnēmata, a type of notetaking system, used as a tool for meditation,1 in which the writer would store quotes from books they had read.
How not to forget what matters
It is: “without hope of resolution.”
Without hope of resolution - by Sasha Chapin
As if their words handed you the scaffolding to climb into a new version of yourself (what the best art does!), because language sculpts thought.
why some conversations rearrange your brain - by maja
In other words, paperclip-punk visually encapsulates a future where every single static surface is animated by digital introspection.
Toward a working definition of paperclip-punk
I've always associated the world evoked by “you will eat the bugs, you will live in the pod” with the same cinematic universe as paperclip maximization.
Toward a working definition of paperclip-punk
Because love, even when it doesn’t last, is still worth the price of entry.
the intelligence of desire - by maja - velvet noise
The silence has enough room in it, so something in you loosens, as a thought finds a door.
the best conversations help you hear yourself - by maja
it lays a fine dust over everything, softening edges, bleaching colour from the day until you find yourself performing life instead of inhabiting it.
misery is contagious, but so is joy - by maja
Was this what growing up meant, a slow inevitable dimming of brightness?
misery is contagious, but so is joy - by maja
From him, I learned that passion regenerates through care.
misery is contagious, but so is joy - by maja
rue love is an unchangeable fact, created by the meeting of two wills encountering each other in a moment of porosity to lodge itself into the other
My love for you is a fact - by Natacia Lim
It is the acid test for love, I’d read somewhere, how time and distance takes away everything superfluous while deepening everything that is true
My love for you is a fact - by Natacia Lim
Ripeness, I am learning, is pressure applied long enough to open a way through.
My love for you is a fact - by Natacia Lim
Is this how a life together bears fruit?
My love for you is a fact - by Natacia Lim
The more of these light-gatherers I meet, the more I believe it’s will, and will forged anew each day.
The People Who Keep the Lamps Lit.
there is no economy of compliments.
The People Who Keep the Lamps Lit.
The image inoculates you against the thing it depicts: you stand at the actual rim of the actual canyon and some part of you, trained by ten thousand better-lit versions, murmurs “it looks like the pictures,” and reaches for the phone to make another.
On Being a Bug: Why You Feel like the Main Character and like Nothing You Do Matters
We found from this research that a deeper meditation state was associated with increases in high-frequency brain activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, precuneus and superior parietal lobule and with elevation of the beta-band brain wave in the insula.
Advanced Meditation Alters Consciousness and Our Basic Sense of Self | Scientific American
There is some evidence that advanced meditation practices may dampen self-referential processes and reduce the mind’s focus on the self.
Advanced Meditation Alters Consciousness and Our Basic Sense of Self | Scientific American
Practitioners of jhana report unfettered calmness, clarity of mind and self-transcendence (going beyond the concept of the self and perceiving diminishing boundaries between oneself and others).
Advanced Meditation Alters Consciousness and Our Basic Sense of Self | Scientific American
when the public expresses fear of technologies like social media or AI, tech often reacts by doubling down on their ingroup, instead of trying to genuinely engage with these concerns. I think it’s useful to consider why people might fear these things, and try to speak to them on an emotional level, instead of using it as an opportunity to engage in memetic warfare.
Playing tai chi with memetic warfare - by Nadia
When trying to spread an idea that touches people's lives, families, and personal values in an intimate way, leaning into memetic contagion can make them feel more alienated and afraid, as if the idea is running away faster than they can safely process it.
Playing tai chi with memetic warfare - by Nadia
Our first reaction is often to flinch and look away: this is classically antimemetic behavior, where an idea feels too consequential to acknowledge.
Playing tai chi with memetic warfare - by Nadia
Reality is shy—it only reveals itself to those who, like honest scientists, do not wish it to be something else.
Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process
That open conversational space, which is the heart of our relationship, is not something I can explain; it is not something I knew I was looking for; I’m not even the same person after having been there. It does not look anything like I imagined a relationship would or should look.
Looking for Alice - by Henrik Karlsson - Escaping Flatland
The type of person I’m assuming we’re looking for here is 1) someone that you will find fascinating to talk to after you’ve talked for 20,000 hours, 2) you feel comfortable with them talking through the hardest and most painful decisions you will face in your life, and 3) the conversation is wildly generative for both of you, in that it brings you out, helps you become.
Looking for Alice - by Henrik Karlsson - Escaping Flatland
There is a trope in romance that when you meet the person you are supposed to be with, you can talk about anything. You can apparently inverse that too: if you talk about anything that pops into your mind, you can tell if you're supposed to be with the person by judging their reaction.
Looking for Alice - by Henrik Karlsson - Escaping Flatland
That is perhaps the most solid dating advice I have, by the way—show the inside of your head in public, so people can see if they would like to live in there.
Looking for Alice - by Henrik Karlsson - Escaping Flatland
To be a parent is to be a permanent tourist in a constantly evolving foreign city, which also happens to be your home.
Love is to be invested in someone’s continual expansion
he more skillfully you love someone, the more held, encouraged, and accepted they feel, the more they change.
Love is to be invested in someone’s continual expansion
That is sophistication cosplaying as conscience.
Standing at the wall - Siddhant
We know that silence in the face of injustice is a form of participation.
Standing at the wall - Siddhant
We have just perfected the art of looking directly at something and letting it cost us nothing.
Standing at the wall - Siddhant
If your language is only accessible to people who already sit inside institutions, then your knowledge is not spreading , it is circling.
Standing at the wall - Siddhant
government's most consequential role in space innovation may lie in constructing appropriable markets.
Old Space, New Space: A Commercial Revolution in Innovation? | NBER
The number is impossible to fix because the rats do not consent to being counted in our census.
Feed Me To The Pigeons - by Grant David Crawford, PhD
By the time anyone was paying attention, the entire design of American death had been rebuilt to insulate the body from the elements it was supposed to rejoin, and this seems to be how we lost cultural permission for the body to disappear.
Feed Me To The Pigeons - by Grant David Crawford, PhD
In the Middle East, many fear that ‘frameworks’ become a way to manage crises rather than solve them.
Trump Says He’s a Builder. His Peace Deals Are Far From Sturdy. - POLITICO