november blogathon

Going to try write a blog post everyday in the month of November to get back into creative writing. This will include (hopefully) fiction, poetry and non-fiction.

As a list to myself, here are the non-fiction topics I want to explore

1. How to balance ambition/career/‘hedonic’ treadmill with a present and playful life
2. What is play and how can we incorporate more of it into life
3. What is love (recently read ‘The Art of Loving by Eric Fromm)
4. The role of art in our lives (recently read ‘What Art Does’ by Brian Eno)
5. Writing and LLM’s (Why we probably shouldn’t outsource thinking to them)
6. Predictive processing/active inference and how this links in with neuroscience and meditation (influenced by a series of lectures I attended with Shamil Chanderia)
7. Why we need to make things beautiful (a quote by Tolkien : “Lothlórien is beautiful because there the trees were loved.”)
8. On loving-kindness meditation (reading and listening to Sylvia Boorstein, what a lovely lady!)
9. What women don’t understand about men
10. Conversation and how to do it well ( three levels of conversation (informational, personal, relational). dignity-humility map
11. The importance of dressing well (I know, but this is for me. I read a great article in the FP about this)
12. Attention and love (they are the same thing)
13. Theories of consciousness
14. The process of writing being about becoming (becoming the kind of person who would think those thoughts or put down those sentences)
15. On what we learn from dancing
16. Obsession vs competitiveness (scientists tend to obsessive, businessmen tend to be competitive)
17. What we get from poetry
18. How to learn, how to pursue mastery
19. Book summaries of things I’ve read (Henry Shukman)
20. On walking (“The world reveals itself to those who travel by foot” Werner Herzog)
21. On integrity, nobility, poise (words and ways of being that I like)

Expect the posts to be bad. They will be first drafts, often written during time strapped working weeks.

I hope to post a few on substack (more than 1000-2000+ word articles).

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