an important thing that came out of developing my vision statement back in fall 2016 in infinite growth was finding a definition of liberation that worked for me. in spaces i’ve been working in for the past four or five years, the word liberation gets used a lot without much clarity. but it’s always used with a lot of passion and that felt good. since i wanted the word to be a part of my vision for the world(s) that i live in, i needed to be absolutely clear about what it meant. the clarity would be necessary in order for me to understand when work i was doing was headed towards liberation or not.
Read more...the last time i wrote about saying no was about two years ago. i’ll put the links to those posts at the bottom of this post, but i wanted to circle back to it because the prophetic no came up again with spencer recently.
Read more...the other day i saw an article that made me feel validated in something i’ve been saying for a while. i’ve felt quite… frustrated isn’t the word, but it’s the only word i can come up with right now, with initiatives that take the “teach [insert oppressed group of people] to [insert profession of someone from the owning class]” approach.
Read more...while setting up my selfjournal earlier this week, i came across the 60 to 1 rule in the introductory language. the 60 to 1 rule i used in aviation often and for a few different purposes (see wiki or this aviation blog post if you want to really nerd out). the use called out in the journal was this one:
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