Forwarded from Ministry of good ideas
Good Idea: Accept the distractions instead of fighting them?
https://ashore.io/journal/crossover-creativity/poisoning-the-day
The article "Poisoning the Day" explores the idea that productivity is often a race against the inevitable distractions and setbacks life throws at you. Using Jack Antonoff’s reflections on creativity and productivity, it suggests that the key is to focus on getting as much done before these interruptions—be it news, personal problems, or simply fatigue—derail your progress. Instead of fighting these disruptions, the article advocates embracing them when they come, adjusting your workload, and picking up the next day. It emphasizes the importance of starting early or finding a rhythm that suits you to avoid the "poisoning" of your productivity.
What do you think of the idea of accepting distractions instead of fighting them?
https://ashore.io/journal/crossover-creativity/poisoning-the-day
The article "Poisoning the Day" explores the idea that productivity is often a race against the inevitable distractions and setbacks life throws at you. Using Jack Antonoff’s reflections on creativity and productivity, it suggests that the key is to focus on getting as much done before these interruptions—be it news, personal problems, or simply fatigue—derail your progress. Instead of fighting these disruptions, the article advocates embracing them when they come, adjusting your workload, and picking up the next day. It emphasizes the importance of starting early or finding a rhythm that suits you to avoid the "poisoning" of your productivity.
What do you think of the idea of accepting distractions instead of fighting them?
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Poisoning the day
The fatalist's guide to productivity, or how to get through the day before it gets to you.
Forwarded from CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
We can imagine FBI agents investigating the killing of the UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson struggling to make a *short list* of people who have been wronged by the insurance company.
How did insurance companies become so hated?
Modern-day insurance has its origins in grassroots mutual aid programs such as the "Friendly Societies" in which workers motivated by care for one another would pool their resources and take care of each other. Insurance only became a racket after this model was captured by the state and for-profit corporations.
Though the proponents of capitalism and the state claim that centralization and privatization are essential for scaling up social infrastructure and making it run "more efficiently," state bureaucracy and for-profit models have chiefly served to concentrate control over everyone's lives in the hands of a few oligarchs.
And the more unevenly power is distributed in a society, the more volatile that society is bound to be.
How did insurance companies become so hated?
Modern-day insurance has its origins in grassroots mutual aid programs such as the "Friendly Societies" in which workers motivated by care for one another would pool their resources and take care of each other. Insurance only became a racket after this model was captured by the state and for-profit corporations.
Though the proponents of capitalism and the state claim that centralization and privatization are essential for scaling up social infrastructure and making it run "more efficiently," state bureaucracy and for-profit models have chiefly served to concentrate control over everyone's lives in the hands of a few oligarchs.
And the more unevenly power is distributed in a society, the more volatile that society is bound to be.
Forwarded from [TERRORIST ⚠️] Fully Automated Luxury Lesbian Space Anarcho Communism (M160)
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Forwarded from CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
Plutocracy has always been a fundamental part of real existing democracy. As long as resources are unevenly distributed, the rich can always buy others’ votes—either literally, or by promising them a piece of the pie, or else by means of propaganda and intimidation.
But today, it has advanced so far that one billionaire can singlehandedly change the course of an election.
If we want self-determination, we can't simply reform the system. We have to abolish capitalism, the process that concentrates wealth in so few hands.
https://crimethinc.com/resist2025
But today, it has advanced so far that one billionaire can singlehandedly change the course of an election.
If we want self-determination, we can't simply reform the system. We have to abolish capitalism, the process that concentrates wealth in so few hands.
https://crimethinc.com/resist2025
Forwarded from African Stream
Afro-Caribbean revolutionary and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon is perhaps the most influential anti-colonial thinker of his time. He died on this day, December 6th, in 1961.
His life and works have inspired national liberation movements and political activism throughout the Global South and beyond - planting the seeds of revolution in the hearts and minds of millions.
Here are some key facts and quotes to chew over. We’d love to know if his message appeals to you in the comments.
His life and works have inspired national liberation movements and political activism throughout the Global South and beyond - planting the seeds of revolution in the hearts and minds of millions.
Here are some key facts and quotes to chew over. We’d love to know if his message appeals to you in the comments.