ideas & opinons
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digital moments
moments live forever now, distilled and bottled into pixels- so they never exist fully (existence has a start and end) we engrave captions on tombstones of graveyards of memories. but most life happens between discrete points in time. bottling moments is an art form that approximates the essence of the moment but approximations are never…
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time allocation
so in the end everyone was given the same moments and minutes that stretched into days and years and decades the only difference, then, was in their allocation of these moments gifted in the epilogue the only chapters anyone talked about were Relationships, Health, Experience, and Impact tick tock
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freeform 8.5.22
the way you spend your day and the way you spend your life are one and the same thing. when we wish to talk about priorities, what we really mean to say is how we allocate time, that imaginary but ever-present quality. your life becomes a sum total of all your moments.
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freeform 8.3.22
be an unbendable vector to those forces external to yourself experience is, in the end, the sum total of of everything and what the pages of your book are written of when all things are said and done people will remember how you made them feel we hold mirrors for each other and these reflections…
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dormant selves
Inside everyone In quiet corners of their mind and heart Reside their dormant selves: Shadows, reflections, echoes They could not all have co-existed Opportunity costs to moving forward in time But sometimes I miss mine… The self which would sit at the window of a library and decode endless pages of equations of the physics…
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steps to making a friend
1. Warm smile. The world is quite cold. 2. Everyone has a story that wants to burst out from them. A recent triumph, loss(es), an idea, a vision. Let them speak it and listen. Offer a reflection of their energy. It’s an impossible world, and it’s reassuring to exist. 3. Take out the big scull…
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the mind & weather
The mind has weather, Different people go through different seasons, The rain clouds and the rainbows both pass by eventually, making way for each other. Help people on their rainy days. Recognize them in yourself and stay and watch TV, order in food. You will need their help soon too. Learn the art of asking…
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eternity
We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don’t mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be…
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on attention
Pay attention This common saying implies that there is a finite amount of attention. And it’s true. The currency of attention is a blend of time, energy, and intentional presence. I think the way we are paying attention is broken right now. At present we have a seemingly endless streams of new apps that we…
sid gore 