Any sequence of words should aspire to be a poetic turn of phrase.
I am currently reading ten books, dipping into each depending on mood.
I usually prefer to read novels while listening to the partner audiobooks—because this slows me down, helping me to observe and imagine more; and includes literally another sense of what is happening.
Some recent comments I’ve had about me on webcam: “angelic”, “a Sith Lord”, “a purple alien.” I think I need to change my lighting.
I am sceptical of all claims to certainty, although some are more likely to be false than others.
The world was made of wibbly and came from wobbly, thought the jelly.
The weakest form of argument is an appeal to authority, either to that of others or your own.
The Nazis were traitors to Germany, its culture and possibilities, and all of the human race. The people who support the rise of fascism in current hellscapes like Russia have betrayed their country and common humanity.
In nations of slaves, people are requisitioned by the regime to be discarded as waste.
I like to visit other worlds, either in my sleep or my imaginings.
If you are not trying to appease anyone; if you are not trying to appeal to a market demographic; and you don’t need anything: watch out, you might actually do something worthwhile.
The first-person narrative voice in novels should be unreliable if it is to be realistic; and usually, the narrator shouldn’t realise that.
Good acting makes any script interesting.
Imagine telling people in the pre-internet days that if they pay a few quid a month they would have instant access to over one million books. I remember there were subscription services of a similar cost that would send two or three books a month in the post. Public libraries were always a thing though, to be fair, and most books could be ordered to the local library if requested.
As well as the books and online services, libraries have great community importance in providing free internet access to people and a quiet space to study or work.
I wrote 13,350 words in 11 days. So it looks like my run rate is about 1,200 words of draft text per day when I have an idea.
My internal soundtrack on headphones represents the mood I need to be in at the time.
If time isn’t a significant constraint then the same outcomes can be achieved by people of very different levels of ability.
My ongoing challenge has been the destupidification of myself.
Absentmindedly putting cumin instead of cinnamon in porridge is not a good idea.
To overturn a despicable regime, a significant amount of people who had previously collaborated with the lie need to overcome their self-deception.
Someone was asking me about the constitutional settlement in the UK, and I had to correct myself fives times by saying “the monarch” instead of “the Queen”. My mind just didn’t want to use the new words.
Kim Jong-un has a 100% approval rating by his adoring serfs. The Kremlin is getting there with all their 180-degree advances.
I think the biggest compliment I’ve had in my office life was, “if we could clone Rob, everything would work.” I remember because I laughed.
When in ultra-efficient robot mode, I prefer asynchronous written communication over imprecise talking. I appreciate short, focused written updates at standard intervals, such as by a certain time of each day. A feature that sends reminders and tracks the updates would be useful.
Your state of mind can affect how you interpret the behaviour of others.
Search for a good lesson in a bad situation. Avoid bad habits in an easy situation.
Listening to podcasts helps me transition to and through unappealing routines.
Stress mode is not enjoyable but is productive for getting practical things done when the energy is focused on positive action rather than negative thoughts. My personal bests for creativity arrive when I am relaxed.
🖤 Dark chocolate with black coffee 🖤
I’ve got a thing for supremely dark chocolate. Sometimes I do speak literally.
Stories determine wellbeing. The ability to put self-told stories down, change them, or rewrite them, determines wellbeing. Every syllable counts.
The best stories speak from fundamental truth; the worst from secondary distorted sensations.
People assign themselves an identity from what society tells them. Imagine if that social situation is warped. Imagine if all that fell away. What is left, in terms of intrinsic worth?
Everything was interesting.
Listening to classical music on headphones is a hack for me when I need to concentrate on one task for a sustained period of time. I think it calms the sea of thoughts that want to compete for attention.
I like designing apps using Figma. Bubble is a very easy way to prototype those designs.
I think I need to listen to the classical music in case other random massive project distractions just pop in.
I can only do comedy as a bizarre character, such as myself.
Just as we cringe at some of the motifs in old film and TV, hopefully future viewers will squirm at some of the current output.
Thinking based on the current point of the zigzagging trend can make you a well-fed sheep, on a mutton farm.
Beliefs control people. It takes kindness and bravery to drop an interpretation that is used for cruelty.
Any person can do a lot of good. Instead, most energy is spent spinning from the algorithm operating on you.
Imagine a world where people live for hundreds of years, still living day-to-day with the mentality learnt from some medieval mud pit.
I do not fit into the 18th century left-wing/right-wing classification system and neither do most thinking people on most issues. “Conservative” implies past beliefs must be conserved, even though the world is constantly changing. “Progressive” in the political sense is a marketing slogan that suggests anyone not conforming to every current enforced dogma of the group is regressive.
Communism was a bourgeois philosophy designed for cult members to assume power; the people who actually worked were all the same and expendable.
I am neither interested in market ideology nor the discredited social ideologies of the 19th and 20th centuries. I am interested in what works. I’m interested in truth and facts, not politicking. I want what is self-actualising to be open to all.
I am not relaxing if it becomes a challenge to see how much I can relax.
I would like functionality where the user can configure and share their own automations for personal finance and investments. Machine learning suggestions in this sphere also has enormous scope.
I have wasted a lot of time in my life, preoccupied with being low quality and crap; although I suppose it’s been interesting to know what that is like. It would be nice now to compare to the opposite.
To be ultra-confident you can either be a deranged narcissist or you can be yourself completely. The former is fragile, needing lies and selfishness to delay its inevitable demise; the latter invites a playful, open curiosity to life and what is.
There is no desire to convince others that you are happy when you are actually happy. There is no desire to show off to others when you have a sense of fulfilment. There is no hunger for external validation if you appreciate yourself. Showing off a glamorous lifestyle on social media as the suggested purpose of work is no purpose at all.
Initial ideas are easy only if they arrive from the lightbulb moment. The conditions that had to be in place for a person to be able to form original creative ideas were probably far from easy to obtain.
I tried work once, but I prefer cake, selfies and sunsets.
Your mental state affects your physicality. It’s also true the other way round.
An interpretation of Human World is that Guy/John is mentally ill and is projecting the thoughts of his split personalities on his interpretation of events. It actually looks quite good on camera when he is in the location of the scenes and just speaking the parts of the first-person narrative to himself as a monologue, cut with green screen shots to camera. Projecting my narration on other characters in the scenes has a weird effect and also works. Film length will be about 8 hours. Accompanying music videos will use the same scenes and characters.
The novel will also be uploaded into the Wiberty app – which will enable effective indexing of themes and meta commentary. I want shared and collaborative indexing available for any text or body of work.
“Am I real?” It’s just you I’m afraid. We’re all NPCs.
If the fundamental questions are unanswerable as a condition of existence, then what matters is not what you think, but what you do – or more precisely, the quality of how you express life, now.
It is common fallacy that because a person believes they have thought through an issue logically and arrived at an objective conclusion, anyone who does not arrive at the same conclusion must be either stupid, dishonest or mistaken. In fact, taking the example of the judicial panel system, well-informed people can be presented with the same evidence in the same context, applying the same rules, and arrive at different conclusions.
People who mindlessly follow the current trend look moronic in the fullness of time. If they could momentarily step outside and look from a better vantage point, they would be ashamed of themselves. The heroes are the ones who held true, who showed bravery to resist. True wealth is the quality of your character, the actions you displayed, not the treats you received for picking the convenient easy option. Nothing you accumulate can be taken with you – your character and the quality of your actions were everything.
Anything creative is therapeutic to me, even if it is just some simple words like these.
These are both acting and writing requirements:
Describe the scene in detail. What is he seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching. What is he thinking? What is his emotional state? What does he want? What is his backstory? What happened immediately before? Describe him. What is his personality? What are his physical characteristics? What is he wearing? How does he talk?
Improvisation is realtime writing immersed in all of this.
Random Thoughts:
Dogma is typically deceit enforced by cruelty and murder. Freedom of expression is the foundation of civilisation that emerged (after much struggle) from our brutal past.
Casting off the shackles of the KGB means winning the right not to be raped, tortured, mutilated and murdered.
Robert Walker 