One of the reasons The Boneless Way is particularly apt as a life posture in 2020 is that we are dealing with environments of hugely concentrated power of all sorts. But power is hard to exercise intelligently at scale without the active cooperation of the powerless.
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If I had to distill this into a single principle it would be this: be very suspicious of anyone who wants you to spend energy without paying you. Even if you don't care about getting paid. When wealth and power are concentrated, human energy is the default currency.
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Recall that currency serves 3 classical purposes: medium of exchange, store of value, unit of account. When it gets too concentrated, and accounting retreats to high-trust networks, something else has to step in for transactional uses among relative strangers. Solution: energy.
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In nature, we find energy conservation as a general principle of emergent organism design, but that's not what we're talking about here. This is energy defense. Take "battery", "inductor" and "capacitor" aspects of your psyche offline. Only your "resistor" side has a public API
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This partitioning I think is very hard for a lot of people, which is why they go entirely offline (waldenponding). I like to take my energy circuits offline, but that doesn't mean I'm in low-energy conservation mode. It just means it's not available by default to others.
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Yes! Or if it does fit in a blogchain, emphasize single post more? I like the blogchain mechanism a lot, but can make it harder for component ideas to stand out So I prefer eg: "Catchy Title Subtitle: part n of x blogchain" vs. something like: "Blogchain Name 9"
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The whole point of the blogchain format is to resist that very temptation

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