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soulcruzer
soulcruzerSep 16, 2026
The more you want something, the more you …
The more you want something, the more you don’t have it. Desire contains its own evidence of absence. The moment I say I want, I split the world in two: here is the life I’m living, and over there is the life that would finally satisfy me. The wanted thing may be a person, a...
Attentiondesire
soulcruzer
soulcruzerSep 14, 2026
“Become who you are” sounds like an instruction …
“Become who you are” sounds like an instruction to excavate some finished identity buried beneath the noise: clear away the conditioning, ignore the crowd, find the authentic core. But Nietzsche’s self isn’t a fossil waiting to be uncovered. It’s closer to a character being forged in the act of living. You don’t first discover who...
becomingidentity
soulcruzer
soulcruzerSep 14, 2026
I went back through the passages I’d highlighted …
I went back through the passages I’d highlighted in Thee Psychick Bible and found a pattern I hadn’t quite seen while reading the book in sequence. Beneath the sigils, cut-ups, ritual instructions and countercultural provocation, the book keeps returning to the deliberate construction of conditions: symbols that focus desire, rituals that interrupt habit, language that...
Languagemagick
soulcruzer
soulcruzerSep 9, 2026
The body has its own clocks. What interests …
The body has its own clocks. What interests me here is the mismatch between the body’s rhythm and the story the working day tells about us. The working day assumes a fairly flat human being: switch on in the morning, remain cognitively available for eight hours, then switch off at an administratively acceptable time. If...
Attentioncircadian-rhythm
soulcruzer
soulcruzerSep 4, 2026
Time is a nonrenewable resource, but that language …
Time is a nonrenewable resource, but that language can make a life sound like a battery slowly running down. Use it wisely. Don’t waste a drop. Extract maximum value before the whole operation shuts down. There’s truth in the warning, but also a trap. The moment we call time a resource, the manager in the...
Attentionself-knowledge
soulcruzer
soulcruzerSep 2, 2026
When your own life has a voice I …
When your own life has a voice I haven’t watched My Brilliant Career yet, so I can’t say much about Sybylla Melvyn herself. But Srila Devi’s reflection on the character left me sitting with one question: What makes a person dare to live so freely? Srila writes that other people often describe her as courageous...
authenticitycourage
soulcruzer
soulcruzerAug 24, 2026
Some people want to kill time, as if …
Some people want to kill time, as if the hours were an enemy to be disposed of. They scroll, distract themselves, wait for something better to begin. But killing time is a strange ambition. Time and life arrive as the same substance. You can’t murder one without wounding the other. Others want to sidestep time....
AttentionTime
soulcruzer
soulcruzerAug 23, 2026
Intimacy requires an equal amount of risk and …
Intimacy requires an equal amount of risk and authenticity. Or perhaps intimacy begins where authenticity becomes risky. It’s easy enough to be authentic when nothing’s at stake. I can tell you the parts of myself I’ve already accepted, the stories I know how to tell, the wounds that have healed cleanly enough to be shown...
authenticityintimacy
soulcruzer
soulcruzerAug 21, 2026
Virus of the spirit. The phrase gets under …
Virus of the spirit. The phrase gets under my skin. It folds biology, information, psychology and magic into a single image: something enters a host, borrows the host’s machinery and reproduces itself. If the host is a person, the machinery is attention, memory, desire, fear, identity and language. A thought enters through a parent’s warning,...
Attentionmagick
soulcruzer
soulcruzerAug 20, 2026
“I know not should.” Hamlet never says this, …
"I know not should." Hamlet never says this, of course. His actual line is “I know not ‘seems,’” spoken to a mother who thinks his grief has lasted long enough. But let's change the word to "should" and play with that. Because Hamlet does know should. The ghost tells him what a son should do....
agencyHamlet
soulcruzer
soulcruzerAug 10, 2026
Reading Tools for Thought, I keep coming back …
Reading Tools for Thought, I keep coming back to Alan Kay’s idea of the computer as a fantasy amplifier. It’s such a different way of answering the question: what are computers for? Not productivity machines. Not devices for writing more emails, managing calendars, filling in spreadsheets or shaving another twenty minutes off the working day....
AIAlan Kay
soulcruzer
soulcruzerJul 27, 2026
Rheingold’s Tools for Thought has me asking an …
Rheingold's Tools for Thought has me asking an old question again:: what are computers for? For a long time the answer seemed settled. Computers were calculators, then office machines, then portals into a giant shopping centre with a comment section. We learned to treat them as appliances that happened to demand more and more of...
AIHoward Rheingold

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