https://bookshop.org/p/books/adapting-a-chinese-philosophy-of-action-mercedes-valmisa/15788870?ean=9780197572962 This book??? Or maybe another one. There might be links between the vices of power at the level of states and individuals, (goodharting, seeing like a state, etc.) and the virtues of powerlessness in daoism. Can’t remember if this was the right book though lolol.
Waugh - The languor of Youth—how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth—all save this—come and go with us through life; again and again in riper years we experience, under a new stimulus, what we thought had been finally left behind, the authentic impulse to action, the renewal of power and its concentration on a new object; again and again a new truth is revealed to us in whose light all our previous knowledge must be rearranged.
- similar to the note on youth in Voice memos (need to split up)
Checking the quotations book on laziness and etc. would help.
Some Buddhist monk criticised lucid dreaming on the basis that doing so is ripping up the last unwilled part of our lives and replacing it with a McDonalds of striving.
- I think Bergson on dreams would have a similar position
- Aesthetics and disinterested liking re winding garden paths
Deliberately keeping your work high context and illegible Legibility, markets, communities is a good defence against AI, at least short term. Models of AI