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To me, the details of your processes aren’t nearly as interesting as the life experiences that have shaped your POV & worldview. I don’t care what time you wake up in the morning or what apps you use; I’m curious to know how you construct meaning and what you’re afraid of
I can go first: mainly I think I’m afraid of losing my place in the world, ie having no home, no table to sit at. I can frame meaning in opposition to that: I construct meaning through relationships with others. Home is a project, earning a place in the social graphs of friends
“Make friends” is maybe the simplest two word directive in my memespace that has the most influence on everything else. To make good friends you have to be kind, interesting, sensitive, ethical. If not for the nourishment of friendship I would probably be a selfish asshole https://t.co/juTmmjGWYY
And even if there are no human meatspace friends, there are always friends in the form of books, movies, games, music. Art has been made with love & passed on as a gift through the millennia by kindred strangers who wanted you to feel less alone https://t.co/63xK6PUR6W
Reflecting this morning on how my starting conditions were a lot more hostile, cold, abrasive and distant than I choose to remember. I think it’s actually quite remarkable that I’m not much more of an asshole; all credit for that goes to the libraries & storytellers who raised me https://t.co/evTjkNiupW
@visakanv rhymes with Salinger: https://t.co/ZA7NO8N77x
@easoncxz Good question! First I have my public persona + work that naturally attracts people who want to talk about that sort of thing; that’s 80% of the work done. With new strangers, if I sense that they’re receptive, I ask about their experiences and stories, in a supportive tone