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Because creativity, it’s just so much — it’s so inwardly focused. And I find that it’s so helpful to be pulled out of that system, otherwise I can just drown in myself. [Having a day job] means you can just make whatever you want to make. And what’s more independent than that? What I’m talking about is a problem of success, but we need to make sure that it’s not taboo to talk about the problems of success if we want to be successful. If we want ourselves and other people to be successful, we need to address the problems on the other side as well. I don’t want to drown in other people’s expectations. My own are hard enough. If what you make goes anywhere, it’s because other people carried it.

[outputting consistently] takes away from the heart of it if all you’re doing is focusing on that consistency.

…there are many Buddhist stories in it, most of which come down to doing the same thing forever with no response and then suddenly all is well. That is blogging.

I underlined this passage hard when I read it last year. Muddle. Yes. I know this state well, although I often refer to it as waffling. Here’s what I notice about waffling: I do it often, and it’s almost always to justify not doing something that I know, deep down, will bring me joy.

Subscribe: https://bit.ly/SubscribeJorisVoorn This set is exclusively my own music and remixes, all made within the last year, with the exception of Colyn's remix of my track 'Never'. During the one year lockdown I've made a lot of new music, focussing mostly on techno. Some of these new tracks can be heard in this 100 minute set. March 20, 2021. A year after COVID-19 caused a worldwide lockdown and turned the global musical landscape into an empty desert, a new hope arrives at the horizon. In The Netherlands a try-out event takes place. 1500 people and a handful DJ’s are having their first party in over a year. Every person on site has been tested negative for COVID-19, people in the audience are being anonymously tracked with a small device which is monitoring their contacts with other people. This is the Future. If things go well today, if there are no positive tests 5 days after the event, this could pave the way to life after COVID-19. Tracklist 00:00:00 White Cliffs - Just Like You (Joris Voorn Remix) 00:06:40 Elderbrook - Numb (Joris Voorn Dub Mix) 00:09:35 Joris Voorn - Nea Skioni 00:14:20 Mees Salomé ft. Celine Cairo - Fool's Paradise (Joris Voorn Remix) 00:19:00 Joris Voorn - Never (Colyn Remix) 00:21:20 SOF - Vanquish (Joris Voorn Remix) 00:26:30 Dua Lipa - Break My Heart (Joris Voorn Remix) (Instrumental) [WARNER UK] 00:31:15 Lie2You - Obsession (Joris Voorn Edit) 00:34:00 Joris Voorn - Psycho 00:37:50 Kölsch - Shoulder Of Giants (Joris Voorn Remix) 00:41:00 Joris Voorn - Retrograde 00:46:30 Joris Voorn - River 00:50:00 Michel De Hey - Nova Nova (Joris Voorn Remix) 00:53:30 L.S.G. - The Train of Thought (Joris Voorn Remix) 00:57:45 London Grammar - Baby It's You (Joris Voorn Remix) 01:02:10 Monkey Safari - Safe (Joris Voorn Remix) 01:06:50 Joris Voorn - Rotor Multi 01:10:15 Joris Voorn & Speedy J - 35mm 01:17:50 Joris Voorn - Acid April 2021 01:20:40 Joris Voorn - Float 01:24:05 Joris Voorn - Rikshaw 01:29:50 Joris Voorn - Rhetoric Stereo Recordings 01:34:00 Joris Voorn - WSADPHSR Alt 01:37:15 Alex Kennon - Blinding Lights (Joris Voorn Remix) 01:41:10 Joris Voorn - Quicksand 🎶Check Out: Joris Voorn Live Show Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bvIfNEmpq4&list=PLnLlwmUgI-e154jnC_wpimf39xptthWrV&index=1&t=6828s #JorisVoorn #Techno #House Follow Joris Voorn: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jorisvoorndj/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jorisvoorn/ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/joris-voorn Twitter: https://twitter.com/jorisvoorn

Calendar/TODO list that is actually a dynamical phase space. Tasks and interests are attractors, maybe breaks are repellers. Weighted by importance. Place a ball in some part of the landscape to see what to do right now. Maybe it’s cyclical, wrapped around a Möbius band/torus.

Dropbox mirror: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5aw8dd4v685skns/PJH%20%E2%80%94%C2%A0What%20does%20it%20mean%20to%20be%20behind%3F.pdf?dl=0 If you always feel behind, and never ahead or (better yet) neutral, then that sure is suspicious. Your behind beliefs might not be accurate, and anyways — who can feel motivated to run a race they’ve already lost?

On the good days, everything feels connected—a giant wall of conspiracy string. But on the bad days, every gesture and thought sits in isolation. It’s like I’m looking at the same board, but someone has turned off the layer containing the string. Rather than an electric galaxy of potential I just see…a mess. ​ Those are the moments when I miss the drip-feed of social validation that comes from sharing things on public platforms. It’s a steady piping cry of “Yes! Keep going! This matters!” that can make all the difference between enthusiasm and despair. But I don’t want to rely on it. I don’t want to give away that kind of power.

This is a playlist of lecture videos from my undergrad distributed systems course at UC Santa Cruz in spring 2021. Course website: http://decomposition.al/CS...

Yes, we give feedback and encouragement and suggestions, but we also bond over our art, letting each other in on the oft-solitary process of figuring out our thoughts and our stories. We push each other, teach each other, and ultimately shape each other and our work. A page to remind everyone what art is — love from many sources, shaped by an individual, to be shared. You release your belief that everything has to do with you and that you are in complete control. This is not a passive act. It involves working in favor of things that you surrender to and accepting that the results of your actions are not in your control. Dropbox mirror: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cwujmj6y3ezn6lu/ripple01.pdf?dl=0

Gifts, old friends, someone else’s life.

To be deeply lazy is to be truly settled. Mainly, it is to eliminate the distance between your ideal and your actual self. It is not so much about relaxation or effort as it is about the absence of internal conflict.

The most important difference between Level 1 and Level 2 actions is that Level 1 actions tend to be additive, while Level 2 actions tend to be multiplicative. What levels of action should I spend more or less time in, given my stage of life?

I’ve also started asking, before I pull out my phone or tablet if I have something I need to do, or if I'm just using the device to hide from what’s actually bothering me.

a list of all of the "thoughts" style pages i know about · GitHub

One potential lesson here is that you should only work on projects that are immediately meaningful to you as ends in themselves. Write if you have things to say, or if you have stories to tell, but not because you want to be A Writer.

“But,” I continued, “if you find yourself in a situation where the instability or flux or stuckness is somewhat open-ended, if the issue is less that you’re spending six weeks moving into a house and more that you don’t know what your life is going to look like in six months, let your creative practice be your anchor. Make the time, keep the time, do the work. Your anchor can keep you in place, even if you’re in the middle of some very rough water.”

Most importantly, however, when you make it up as you go, you get to do what you think, not what you thought. All plans are rooted in the past — they're never what you think right now, they're what you thought back then. And at best, they're merely guesses about the future. I know a whole lot more about today, today, than I did three months ago. Why not take advantage of that reality?

My office hours, and generally those of the faculty in the math department, are drop-in. That means that you can show up and expect me to b...

And perhaps a bigger benefit, my brain can let it go when it’s done, and give my full focus to relaxing or doing housework or exercising. We talk a lot about work/life balance, and perhaps hobby/life balance is just as important.

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/143309/how-do-you-not-forget-old-math/143335#143335 …if I were trying to remember everything in a particular book, I might start by memorizing the table of contents, and then I’d work on remembering the theorem statements, and then finally the proofs.

Her poems are courageous, intimate and quietly disruptive of the systems we operate with in. What if you felt the invisible tug between you and everything?

Summarized in this last piece, Rosenthal determines the cause of death: Lack of anti-trust enforcement, pervasive short-termism, driven by Wall Street’s focus on quarterly results, and management’s focus on manipulating the stock price to maximize the value of their options Without this understanding of how it all interacts, attempts to recreate a single piece of the 1960s without the supporting context are doomed from the start.

I can only allow myself to create new. Too many times I’ve revisited old attempts at works, miring myself in past writing and thoughts. No more. No more reinventing, no more trying to salvage. Enough.

One person per task has the “nobody can help” disadvantage already mentioned. In fact, people are disincentivized from helping, because their task has their name on it and your task has your name on it.

It shifts the time spent going through and evaluating images away from the moments when they are being taken to the next day, which presumably is meant to help preserve the integrity of the experience being documented rather than burdening it with the self-awareness of how well it is coming across on the screen. The photos aren’t made “social” by posting them to a feed or snapping them directly to a person or group; instead their sociality is in how they behave as one part in a larger gallery of themed shots.

42/ So stop blaming the media platforms for your own wallowing in small-minded Twitter gossip about people. [Train] to the point where you decide whether to be there or elsewhere.