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Having had over the last few months the occasion almost daily to sit in silence for a few brief moments, I came to describe the experience as the feeling of silence carving away at my interiority like a sculptor chipping away at stone, as if silence were stripping me of all that was not essential.
The Thing That Is Silence
The Convivial Society
Field notes are powerful for several reasons. By encouraging you to capture your thoughts while listening to podcasts, reading articles, or even during conversations, they help you become a more active observer of your own life. They take very little time; a few seconds whenever you observe something interesting. And because they are timestamped, they help make it easier to identify under what conditions you work, learn, and feel best.
Self-Anthropology: Become Your Own Anthropologist With Personal Field Notes
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Races are high-stakes competitions designed to discriminate between people on the basis of a single domain of human functioning. The fundamental problem with hereditarianism isn’t that genetics matters for human difference. The fundamental problem with hereditarianism is the idea that society should be structured as a race we all compete in, rather than a building we all have to live in.
How to Build a Society for All to Enjoy - Issue 107
nautil.us
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