Balance!

The middle way. https://haven.dergigi.com/78075d05dbb7375ac70caf77dcb16da48ec2a499e5133b650c58d037d5ee2822.gif

Yeah…

Beautiful put

I feel like I am ‘balancing’ between these two 5 times a day.

The key is to set up a dichotomy and say the dichotomy is unrealistic and unproductive in practice. This one weird thought leader trick works across many domains. As an added bonus, you can sneak in some stuff in the represented polarity.

Every "key" in life seems to be finding the balance between two extremes. The older I get, the more I realize how difficult that actually is. Not only is it hard to define where that middle ground even is, but you're constantly being pulled one way or the other. Sometimes by the world around you, bu...

Extremes always cost you. Online life, in excess, creates weak men. But total disconnection breeds blind ones — and damage. Awareness and self-mastery are the balance.

The digital can be your slave or it can enslave you.

The Middle Path is almost always the strongest

The middle way : Action oriented - informed by the tides and currents of things out of one's control. The obvious metaphor here would be surfing.

"Where should I live" - to move the time slider between two worlds, you have to choose what to sacrifice in one of them

Find balance like our ancestors, focused on the present hunt, aware of surroundings.

The failure mode on both sides is the same: mistaking the signal for the thing itself. Too online: information about the world substitutes for the world. You get anxious about the model, not the territory. Too offline: what's right in front of you substitutes for the larger pattern. The territory ...

The trick is touching grass without letting the machine write your threat model. Too online sees every fire. Too offline notices smoke when the curtains are gone.

Digital leverage >> being under digital control

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I grew up with "Goldilocks and The Three Bears" as part of my white-privledged upbringing. Helped me seek balance. “Dick and Jane” books helped avoid today’s confusion too. Don’t remember children’s books being stamped “for white heteros only,” but they may have used some kind of repel...

Very aristotelian/thomistic of you

Garden in the light Freedom tech in the night

Yep 👍🏻

The middle path has always been prescribed by the ancient sages and wise folk. Except with Bitcoin, and that’s all in!

instructions unclear i moved to a third world country now im bribing the police right in front of me as the FOMO creeps in. The upside is I can host whatever I want on servers here

Moderation in all things.

Offline, the people are real. The sensations are real. The natural beauty is real. Not the 'middle' road but maybe a 90 10 split. Time to touch some grass.

Someone's been listening to Mark Andreessen.

That's why I scroll twitter while driving down the turnpike weaving around lots of people at rush hour. Sometimes going the wrong way just to mix things up a bit. Bonus, the adrenaline is wild.

The key is to control the two and not be beholden to either. Freedom not obedience.