We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness, and strength so we can help transform the situation. The ocean of tears cannot drown us if karuna [compassion] is there.
— The Four Qualities of Love, Thich Nhat Hanh
People I recommend you pay attention to at the moment
Bayo Akomolafe (Facebook)
Tomas Pueyo (Medium)
Richard Dennis-Bartlett (Twitter)
Rebel Wisdom (YouTube)
How I recommend you pay attention to them
Feedly, using FetchRSS to turn Facebook pages/Twitter feeds into RSS, and Facebook’s Get Notifications feature for Facebook profiles:
Staying focused
I've found that accessing my Facebook newsfeed on mobile is sufficient, and that I don't also need it on desktop. The best solution I've found:
Install the Stylus extension for Chrome
Create a new script applying to 'URLs on the domain: facebook.com': #contentArea > #stream_pagelet { display: none }
Your Facebook homepage on desktop will then look like this:
Consider also downgrading your phone (or at least having a dumbphone as an option when you leave your home)
Remote income
Matched betting is a clever (mathematically risk-free) way of turning the free promotional bets offered by betting companies into real cash. On average people make around £15/hour for 12 months. (At some point the betting companies realise what you're up to and 'gub' you – stop offering you free bets – but most people get at least 6 months out of it.) Read more
Ditch the old financial system
Let’s take this opportunity to move beyond our unfair, unsustainable, centralised financial system. Make the switch to crypto: I recommend Wirex for day-to-day spending and ICONOMI for savings/investments.
In other news
Ayrmer Cove
I visited beautiful Ayrmer Cove for the first time
I appreciated this Imagined Letter from Covid-19 to Humans
I finished Seeing That Frees by Rob Burbea and am now reading Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
I completed the Karuna Institute's Foundation in Core Process Psychotherapy and shared a piece on my life journey that I wrote as part of the application
I embodied The World at Divine Ridiculous: Lupercalia
Totnes Convergence is unlikely to go ahead; a final decision will be made over the coming weeks.
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Until next time, with love,
Stephen