Cue the book "The Code Breaker" [0]. I read it a long time ago and such an incredible book and journey by Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuel Charpentier. Do check it out
I've been thinking that they probably are smart enough to know this but see utility in spewing such lies. Because optics implies higher valuation. It's follow the money as usual :(
This is something I try to be acutely aware of in myself. Not that I have any level of wealth worth mentioning.
I started working at a company where they just give me stuff. I can go to work in clothes my employer gave me, eat my meals there, use the phone they pay the plan for, etc.
It does affect you. I first noticed it when I went to buy some triviality. Something small I needed for something or the other. Something that would have been just given to me at work. The line to checkout was long and while waiting, I just thought "Why can't I just fucking go? It's not even $10. What does it matter?"
So now I try and be mindful of what I receive and to be sure to acknowledge it at least mentally.
I don’t think I ever connected that “Lean In” was from a C-suite member of Facebook and I certainly didn’t know how morally bankrupt it was. The case is made pretty well in the book that Sheryl does not practice what she preaches.
From the book, it appears that Sheryl used Meta as a platform for promoting her own image and book rather than do the things that prevented a lot of bad. It’s beyond sad
Maybe I'm jaded, but this is how I understand all US technology companies to be run. In fact, I'd be surprised if all of those things weren't true for most of the enormous "tech bro" companies coming from SV.
I would put Meta, the Elon Musk companies, Uber, and some others in a separate category from Amazon, Apple, and Google. To be sure, Amazon, Apple, and Google have done some very immoral things, but there does seem to be something in the culture of those companies that understands that they wield enormous power and that sees value in acting responsibly - even if it's just because they think being cartoonishly evil isn't in their long-term interest. I do think there's been a change in ethos from the Jobs/Bezos/Page/Brin generation of leadership to the Musk/Zuckerberg generation.
Then you realize that Facebook has been extraordinarily active banning Palestinian posts and accounts over the last year. So the "casual indifference" is at the very least selectively applied.
@ideashower,
In principle, I agree . But the overlords won't care or will quash it down. This way, the employee collective wields some power in a legal way and the overlords have to work harder to quash it down
@nextts: I think that even having a single share is beneficial in that it enables the platform as a whole from becoming another venting place. Having shares means skin-in-the-game so I wouldn't go down the route of not having shares
At the moment, I am validating demand for Rank And File, a platform for employee activism. Think Institutional Investors but instead of suits, it is employees who own a large number of shares in their own company and act as a collective.
R&F aims to provide a private forum for employees to discuss company policies and act as a platform where employees can connect with legal experts and activists who will help them
From my understanding, mindfulness does not imply no thinking. It is more like not reacting to the thoughts that arise. I am a beginner so don't quote me here, though!
I understand it through a Christian lens and the traditions of Contemplation, Hesychasm, Centering Prayer.
The latter two are enormously controversial, and it's sort of amusing that Carmelites and many other orders don't seem to make the same waves, as long as it's called Contemplative, I guess.
But honestly, it's really fantastic and takes significant discipline to bear fruit. I've simply tried it on the surface and experienced results, but to truly practice it is to choose a guru, and devote oneself singularly to it. The mentally ill are generally too haphazard to follow such a path.
I did find a YouTube channel that provides guided meditations called "The Mindful Christian" and again, recasts Mindfulness with a Christian ethos, and I enjoy the attentive guidance where otherwise my mind would wander in abject silence. But an experienced Mindfulness practitioner would tolerate that wandering, redirect focus, and continue on. The focus is generally assisted through use of mantra or specific repetetive phrase, but experience permits us to release even the words and transcend their meaning and sensations.
It's a matter of releasing our ego and self-concern and permit a larger perspective to take over, however you'll conceive that. It may begin with an emptying of the mind, but seeks a grounded-ness, a better awareness of reality, allowing the immanent power to envelop us, and practcing our ability to remain rooted despite all the world's attempts to wrest us into fantasy, paranoia, psychosis, lies.
Hesychasm describes a specific discipline of the Eastern Orthodox/Byzantine tradition where monastics will incorporate the physicality of breathing and body posture, reciting mantras, if you will, with the spirituality of contemplation and emptiness from distractions or concrete bodily concerns.
I believe that the controversy arises somewhat for a real need for discipline and guidance, so that the emptiness is not filled with something worse or demonic. So that one doesn't lose oneself to the numinous and indeed forget reality entirely. Some practitioners report missing appointments or forgetting their surroundings while immersed in contemplation. Beware.
> It is more like not reacting to the thoughts that arise.
Surely this is as close an approximation to not thinking as conscious humans are capable of. Anyway, words get useless pretty quickly describing internal phenomenon. I just think "mindfulness" is itself simply so vague and so widely applied it could apply to basically any kind of mental therapy.
What I want is less mindfulness, please, I want an empty head.
yeah i try to understand it as not creating emotional cycles tied to an idea in your mind, cycles that can spin and leave you ruminating at best, fully depressed in worse cases
