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Visakan Veerasamy
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I have chosen to completely ignore all news about the US/China trade war(?) to test the hypothesis that actually I don’t need to care

Kinda hoping that eventually I’ll disregard current affairs entirely and only develop opinions on things with a 3-month lag
“Visa did you read about the Dutch euthanasia thing,”

Nope. I’ll read about it next month maybe if anybody’s still talking about it then
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Ok last thing I’m gonna do for my birthday is make videos! Ask me a question and I’ll answer it in a video
question from @samacalawawa: "what's something you know intellectually but are working to internalise?"

fundamentally it's about courage and fear – there are things that we avoid even thinking about, because they're so unpleasant
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When I was a kid messing around on my parent’s computer - I can’t even remember what the software was, I feel like it was MS Office but I’m not sure...? I was very into this font. Algerian
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The designers mentioned are Phillip Kelly and Alan Meeks. TIL that Meeks also made Candice in 1976 - which I think was used in Candy Crush? Or maybe a variant of it
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to get people to lower their defenses around you, you kinda have to be (respectfully!) semi-indifferent to their defensiveness. actively *trying* to lower their defenses is counter-productive, because that's exactly the kind of behavior/intent they're trying to defend against
it's a sort of non-attachment; being playful in response to changing circumstances. you just want to have a good time, you're not needy or demanding about how other people are. you're happy to let them be themselves while you be you. openness to surprise
Leonard Cohen understood this. "Surprise me."

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