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I think 100r reminds me of the thing we're missing the most nowaydays - bravery. We're afraid to take chances, to explore ideas, to take a slightly harder path

I think 100r reminds me of the thing we're missing the most nowaydays - bravery. We're afraid to take chances, to explore ideas, to take a slightly harder path or to explore difficult challenges. We're risk averse and we're unwilling to try new things. Reading about their trips, about all the work they do on the boat and their approach to code (love the concept of making software for one person!) makes me feel like a coward and how I would love to be more brave about how I deal with code, life and the environment around me... I appreciate all your work Rek and Devine. I'm glad yo see you busy doing nothing...

immibis 3y ago
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- pSYoniK 3y ago
  This has got to be one of the saddest replies possible. We have everything to gain from it. If we're unwilling or unable to explore the parts of existence that scare us we cannot possibly come up woth new things. It is the very essence of our evolution and growth, going beyond the comfortable and known. Capitalism is easily the worst thing that has happened to us.
  - mattpallissard 3y ago
    > Capitalism is easily the worst thing that has happened to us. Oh, I don't know about that. Sure capitalism is bad, but some of the worst famines and genocides came out of communist societies.
- lioeters 3y ago
  > capitalism will crush you in the end It's already crushing the majority of us. Unless some people are brave enough to forge alternate paths and live different lives, it will crush the rest of us too eventually.
  - immibis 3y ago
    Living your life on a boat in the middle of the ocean means you are not spending your life crushing capitalism back. I saw a quote today somewhere on the fediverse: "It’s not the barricade but the rifle that you have to hold onto." - Buenaventura Durruti If you defend your one boat from capitalism, while it subsumes everything around it, what have you really won?
    - msy 3y ago
      Freedom to live your life on your own terms and as evidenced by this thread, providing a beacon on the path others can choose to follow.
- exikyut 3y ago
  The understanding that initiative enlightenment is the fact that bravery is universally fungible across domains. This eliminates the need to define the "correct" way of doing things as "the way everyone else does it", because you can acquire the bravery to accomplish your most important goals from any other domain. You can break the narrative. The first step is just to have the bravery to start. That's where I'm stuck at fwiw. :/

immibis 3y ago

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pSYoniK 3y ago
This has got to be one of the saddest replies possible. We have everything to gain from it. If we're unwilling or unable to explore the parts of existence that scare us we cannot possibly come up woth new things. It is the very essence of our evolution and growth, going beyond the comfortable and known. Capitalism is easily the worst thing that has happened to us.
- mattpallissard 3y ago
  > Capitalism is easily the worst thing that has happened to us. Oh, I don't know about that. Sure capitalism is bad, but some of the worst famines and genocides came out of communist societies.
lioeters 3y ago
> capitalism will crush you in the end It's already crushing the majority of us. Unless some people are brave enough to forge alternate paths and live different lives, it will crush the rest of us too eventually.
- immibis 3y ago
  Living your life on a boat in the middle of the ocean means you are not spending your life crushing capitalism back. I saw a quote today somewhere on the fediverse: "It’s not the barricade but the rifle that you have to hold onto." - Buenaventura Durruti If you defend your one boat from capitalism, while it subsumes everything around it, what have you really won?
  - msy 3y ago
    Freedom to live your life on your own terms and as evidenced by this thread, providing a beacon on the path others can choose to follow.
exikyut 3y ago
The understanding that initiative enlightenment is the fact that bravery is universally fungible across domains. This eliminates the need to define the "correct" way of doing things as "the way everyone else does it", because you can acquire the bravery to accomplish your most important goals from any other domain. You can break the narrative. The first step is just to have the bravery to start. That's where I'm stuck at fwiw. :/