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I'm kinda annoyed that I don't have enough time to properly comment on your article, that being said... I resonated deeply with the theme of AI, how the age of documentation has taken a toll in the way we experience life.

I believe we're all our own universes, and our phones an extension of that inner cosmos.

By learning to observe the filter, to remember it's only a filter... Maybe then I might be able to use this in my favor.

For now, we all might be just a bunch of ghosts in the machine.

I'll come back to finish it tomorrow, just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your writing.

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Feb 5, 2023Liked by Paul Spencer

These always show up at what feels like the ‘right’ time.

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Yesterday or before that, looking at the night sky, I saw Moon almost full. Then I thought: Oh, a new Zeitville Chronicle will ought to be soon...

"'I discovered cold showers, it made me realize I am a person having an experience! He discovered grass fed beef, he’s a person having an experience!'

All with the fervor of a religious revival"

- maybe that explains why I myself became so obsessed with old religious ideals and 20th century's esoteric outlines (buddhism and antroposophy especially). But at least there is a thing on them that can be grasped firmly on, by expanding the shores of my own mind. Take that in comparison with Trends©, where all just seem so mind constraining...

"The way to break out of this is to take vulnerable action toward a goal, which can risk failure. You may not be the fairest in the land on the first try. There’s no edit button on a first draft, there is only flow.

But you at least you will not be a selfie supernova—someone who believes they are shining a light into the future when really they are imploding."

- Great advice here.

Embracing vulnerability, when people are fleeing from it like a bat out of hell, is the way forward.

You can time travel on your own life, learn new things doing the old ones in a new way, and just be surprised of how much opportunities trace you back from where you first started, but failed, but gave up just before realising the beauty is on the journey.

PS: Man, I'm still surfing the waves of my last reading Paul, so many doors opened since that it became hard to explain if that was part of the trick haha. But the perspective shift and confidence I was rewarded with can be pointed as some culprits, thank you very much!

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