The Accelerator/Brake model https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-04-20-10:52.html … It's usually worth decomposing interest in an activity into what drives you towards it (an accelerator) and what stops you (a brake). This model comes from the book "Come As You Are", where it's about sex, but is more general.
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Does a fish have a face? https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-04-21-08:02.html … Notes on the experience of animals as ethically relevant, and the role of empathy in our ethical decision making, inspired by a randomly selected passage from "Finding Our Sea-Legs".
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Power, baby, power https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-04-22-08:31.html … A reading from Kathy Acker's in "I'm very into you" results in a meditation gender, attraction, and power, and finishes with a thought on how this ties in to the distressing prevalence of men with power being sexual predators.
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Proportionality and Identity https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-04-23-07:48.html … We use random selection of a jury to guarantee proportionality, but perhaps we should bias this to deliberately over-represent salient minority identities, giving the defence the right to decide what counts as salient.
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Democracy isn't just voting https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-04-24-09:38.html … We tend to think of voting as the central feature of democracy, but it should actually be the last step of it. A lot of why we have this misconception is the lack of small-group democracies in our lives. We should fix that.
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The conditional love of a small town https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-04-25-10:40.html … bell hooks describes small towns as places where the community is built on a love ethic, but this is very conditional on being a person that a small town can love. The rest flee to the cities to find others like us.
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Fixed and growth relationships https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-04-26-07:28.html … In "Rewriting the Rules" MJB talks about how we can fix ourselves into set images in a relationship. I contrast this with bell hooks's notion of love as growth, Schelling's theories of nuclear war, and Alexander Technique.
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78 Thinking Hats https://notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2020-04-26-12:07.html … A great deal of trash talk about Edward de Bono, thoughts on the use of tarot cards for randomised narrative construction and writing prompts, finishing with a short meditation on Focusing, Alexander Technique, exercise, and having fun.
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On fun while exercising, you might check out the book Exuberant Animal. Some of its specifics are a bit dopey, but the attitude and framework were a revelation for me.
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This also looks promising, but I haven’t had a chance to even skim it yet:https://twitter.com/context_ing/status/1249497366354259968 …
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