immanuel kant's rules for a good dinner party

food is super central to my life and it often serves as a key organizing structure. i’m trying to get better (over time) at eating seasonally and, as such, live in alignment with the seasons. more about that someday soon…

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bateson: on love and difference

another insight that struck me from the mary catherine bateson episode of on being was her thinking about love and difference.

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bateson: vision of heaven by kipling is my vision of liberation

in the mary catherine bateson episode of on being, bateson cites her mom’s love of a particular poem, when earth’s picture is painted by rudyard kipling. the full poem is at the end, but i really liked the conversation krista had with bateson about the poem’s vision of heaven.

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bateson: nucleated cells & narratives of competition versus cooperation

one particular line section in the mary catherine bateson episode of on being sort of blew my mind.

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the benefits of no meeting day

so here’s the thing: there will always always be more to do than i can do. (note: i’m going to use “i-statements” for this, but it also applies to you and all of us). no matter how much i limit my contact with new people and new ideas, there will always be more to do than i have time for. i could sit alone for years and think up enough to do to keep me occupied for a lifetime (is everyone like this? maybe not…).

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