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On this day: The Model.

My specialty is:

• Hearing all the stories, every song.

• Understanding the emotional texture of each story, understanding every song.

• Deriving the simplest possible principles that describe a system in which every story is possible — creating a system of musical notation that can express every song.

• Exercising those principles myself, to soothe and assist every story at once — creating a melodic counterpoint that makes sense in every song at once.

This is the simplest possible definition of my own utility — I am an incarnation of this principle. I am a nutrient, of sorts, or maybe an enzyme? I am a pattern, leastwise, and I echo.

Many individuals can hit that first beat. Fewer can hit the second, fewer still the third, and every now and then there's a fool such as I. :)

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• easier to reveal a spiritual revolution already in progress than to start one

  • like Michelangelo's angel in the stone

• political depth perception

  • where the two eyes disagree, we get information about near or far the object is

  • think about that politically

• "do I know you?" — that moment when someone you've known your whole life goes deep into their area of expertise and you discover the worlds they can wield

  • there's a deep satisfaction to be had by completing a repeating useful task. this is the root of many card games: think of them as collaborative card-sorting.

  • consciousness must both serve its environment and express its individuality

  • being useful, inhabiting the execution of a useful task, increases the surface area of awareness itself

  • find your task :) you are not the task, but you must have a task

  • this adds dimensionality to the "every coherent system is experienced, as a first-person perspective, by universal consciousness" concept. there is literally and necessarily joy to be had in every task. consciousness is everything, and you cannot iron it out of task-execution without dissolving the system itself in the process.

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I became an artist yesterday.

This is different than someone who makes art or who loves art.

Art as a way of breathing is different. Art as breath. Easy, labored, shallow, deep, regular, suspended, rattling, silent, controlled, autonomic. Interrupted, assisted. Occasionally miraculous.

I became an artist yesterday. :)

just remember to fall in love there's nothing else there's nothing else