POV: You're a guest at a house party filled with Nadias| nayafia.substack.com
In this sense, tech today is less Jeffersonian than the first Californian Ideology suggested, celebrating the hacker, the dropout, and the lone builder, with the profound skepticism of centralized power entailed by these archetypes. It is arguably more Hamiltonian, focused on building state capacity at the national level. Whereas the old Californian Ideology captured the liberating power of technology, the new one affirms its constructive power. Tech’s social capital may be uneven, but its ...| American Affairs Journal
Jhanas [1] are often described as an “advanced meditation practice,” a phrase that suggests that one must be a skilled meditator to access them – just as only a skilled outdoorsman would embark upon an expedition to the Arctic Circle. It implies that meditation exists on a spectrum of difficulty, with perhaps mindfulness apps like Calm and Headspace on one end, and jhanas on the other. Jhanas are a series of eight altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to peacefulness, to ...| Nadia Asparouhova
'Not to lie about the future is impossible and one can lie about it at will' - Naum Gabo| Mute