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29 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Walking around my land in the rain, humming the music of my youth (the tunes from Pokemon Red)

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28 May
On certain lucid mornings, before even farmers awaken, the fairies emerge from the edge of the forest. On the sloping hills, with the first strokes of sun, they dry the gold and paper money that they create at night in their underground dwellings.

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One morning the fairies were surprised by two boys walking by, who must have woke up very early indeed, or else never slept. The boys gazed longingly at the newly minted treasure, and so the fairies, in a good-natured mood, told them to take what they like.
One of the boys filled his coat pockets with gold, and stuffed his socks and hat with paper. He then bowed to the fairies, and left. The other ran to town as fast as he could, to look for a horse and a cart.
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27 May
What have you created that will last 5 years? 50 years?
What's the largest thing you've created? Image
When I retire I will create pizzas if I am poor, pottery if I am middle class, and airships if I am rich.

Hopefully in any case I can build a few more shrines.
when I say airships I need you guys to envision these and not the uggy goodyear blimps of yesterday. ImageImage
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18 May
The most important technologies that no one is working on are optimism and beautiful visions of the future. A belief in technological progress must include giving people places and futures worth believing in. It doesn't come for free.
Which of these has more joyful people? Which has more dancing and singing?
If you want belief in progress, the folk future is what you must show, not the cyber highway or the economic version of vital statistics. If the future is to be conceived, I hope it is one that is far happier, messier, and greener than the futures we enjoy depicting.
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14 May
I think the things that I find compelling about my life are not the things that other people find compelling.

I suspect what most people want is to get married and care about their home life more than adventures or other excitements. ImageImageImageImage
Most of my life is very mundane. I have moved only a few miles from where I was born.

I think anyone can make their life look interesting if they care about photography. I think anyone can *make* their life interesting if they focus on making things and throw away their TV. ImageImageImageImage
looking through all of my old photos is always surprising. Memories jump out, and make all their sounds.

Most of my life felt like waiting. Much of it unnecessarily. ImageImageImageImage
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10 May
I enjoy traveling but I think "travel"-loving culture has done a disservice to us. Romanticism turned consumptive. In elevating wandering it diminishes belonging.
Belonging, creating beauty where you are, is under-appreciated. You must make something worth wandering towards.

And counter intuitively, you will oft do the best wandering where you are most familiar. Travel is a good pastime, but it's something you should try at home, first.
I think this is part of the reason its hard, culturally, to find communitarian places. One is always looking elsewhere.

Creating beauty and places of belonging are acts beyond just the self. I think its worth it to try and create those things, even if only for your own family.
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7 May
Modern rich societies do not properly respect children in large part because they have engineered them to be useless.

I think this was mostly unintentional. It is probably reversible.
if I have some time this weekend I will write

Yes there is age where you can intuit how the world works, yet are prevented from acting upon it in meaningful way.

Instead of an adolescence full of rites of passage, where you attempt to master and accept responsibility, we made it full of... waiting.

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