GM Cape Spear, Newfoundland, Canada

GM Newfoundland, Canada

I currently live in a millennial trailer park in Costa Rica, otherwise known as a park full of shipping container “tiny homes”. One of the perks is almost all my neighbour’s have friendly dogs. This guy visits me almost every morning. GM.

But you’ll feel it.

The world is so beautiful. GM.

On gratitude: Why gratitude lists fall short. A friend recently pointed to the conditionality inherent in gratitude lists. While it is not fruitless to recognize your blessings, material or spiritual, it does not provide a steady ground to walk on. For if your gratitude is conditional on your house, your fridge being stocked, your family being present, then you will struggle to be grateful should those things come to not be. The awe and the wonder of being itself seems a more fruitful ground floor in the palace of gratitude. The absolute bewilderment at your existence. How intensely bizarre it is that you are here at all, and how wonderfully beautiful it is that you are. Engaging the world with your senses, however complete or incomplete they are. Letting the world in, and you into the world. Stepping back, in child like wonder at the sun hitting your skin on a warm beach, or the sub-zero winds stinging as it whips your face. How insane is it that you get to be here at all? What strange psychedelic trip have you been birthed into? This is where gratefulness starts for me. When I practice remembering it. You have to practice remembering it. Because the car breaks down. The rent is due. Yet another war breaks out, orchestrated by those who refuse to remember the gift of being. The world is not always aware of the wonderment we all carry and so it will pretend it does not exist, because the world has not practiced remembering. From this grounding in the gratefulness of being, everything layered on top of it is sacred. The coffee is sacred. The book. A smile. A moment of kindness. Even a moment of anger, and your recognition and examination of it, is sacred. It is natural that we will forget this. But it is imperative to continue to practice remembering. To encounter wonder at every opportunity. I aspire only to continue to remember. #gratitude #philosophy #writing

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Office for the day. A late GM. #costarica

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"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." - Edward Bernays

The Illusion of Dialogue

Conversing with the Propaganda Hyper-Agent

#writing #propaganda #philosophy #cognitivescience #invisibleenvironment

Creating an Arena for Flourishing Our Worldview is our Home in the World

Creating an Arena for Flourishing

Our Worldview is our Home in the World

#writing #philosophy #worldview #invisibleenvironment

I have discussed in an essay how Bitcoin is a layer of cognition that allows us to build and think long term. I believe it is one of the most powerful base layers we can collectively integrate into our distributed cognition. I believe it has the potential to shape our individual cognition and the relationships in our orbit towards virtuous ends. I said in that essay that the Bitcoin network is cultural layer one. But presence is pre-layering.

What Could I Know If I Was Present to the Underlying Reality of the World?

Thanks for reading Invisible Environment!

#writing #nostr #philosophy #cognitivescience #worldview #layeredcognition

The freedom to create your own confines is real freedom.

On Finding Meaning Through Discipline

Limiting the scope of your decision space might be the most powerful tool for finding meaning and transforming yourself from a less desired state t...

#writing #discipline #substack

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On the Gratitude of Being

Why Gratitude Lists Fall Short

#writing #gratitude

How do you know you’re doing good in the world? It may seem self evident that you’re internal barometer for good will lead you toward it. But most, if not all evil committed in the world was in service of what was thought to be the “good”. It feels like an easy question, yet we’ve tripped over it our entire existence as a species.

Just bought dog food with sats. Like it or not, this is the face of the future of money. @Bitcoin Jungle @FRANCIS - BULLBITCOIN.COM #bitcoinjungle #SINPE #bitcoin #nosara #costarica

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Shoutout to @Bitcoin Jungle wallet and @FRANCIS - BULLBITCOIN.COM for the SINPE integration. I arrived in Nosara, Costa Rica late last night and realized I had no cash to tip my driver. Like magic I sent sats and he received colones. No KYC. A beautiful tool to move toward a bitcoin standard, and to start conversations about accepting bitcoin all across this beautiful country.

#uvita #bitcoinjungle #playahermosa