I notice a pattern of convincing myself I didn't like something. It goes like this: 1. I watch a movie. (Really it could be any experience — say a video game, a TV show, a book.) 2. I like it. 3. I read or hear someone talking shit about
(Haven't tried it yet, maybe I'll write about it when I do.) What if I just wrote the interesting parts of stories first? I wonder because I don't finish many stories. I write a lot of beginnings. I often feel like I'm
Entering the Heart of Sun and Moon references a "bonus" mahasiddha (not part of the more popular list of 84) that is I think my favorite because by title she's just so surreal: Srirudra the Lesbian Crocodile Tamer. It cites another book, Warp and Weft of
Ambivalence, wanting and not-wanting. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Sitting with? If it lasts too long I end up doing nothing. Is that a necessary feature of the experience? Huh, I guess not. I guess I could feel the ambivalence and do something anyway. But what on earth
Continuing on the theme of creating that starts with destroying, I notice that this happens with information too. The core of Getting Things Done for example is the input processing loop. You get memos, links, tasks, documents and stow them in an inbox – a reading list. You then regularly process