our hearts have arrived

our hearts have arrived 
in taipei months before our 
feet will find their way, 

even the words we speak to 
one another have sprout wings
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I visited MIT with aspirations to one day attend media lab and realized thaty personal website had been needing to be updated (about a decade out of date)

So I spent the next weekend totally re-doing it in a way that is way more editable. I used Claude to replace the squarespace templates and make it so I could really fine tune the details. Maybe there are some sections I want to update more.... But I think it's mostly acceptable.

Jamesakers.net

Particularly relevant to my MIT aspirations would be my "Monetization Tools for Artists" section. Yes I am vibe coding quite a bit for these, and learning a bunch along the way. They are still under development.

I am at the Corning Glass Art Society conference for the week and made some vinyl stickers to promote some of my webapp tools. Its nice working in a shop that has the tools of advertising at my disposal :) The first website is already broken😅 perfect.

#vinyl #website #conference #portfolio #aspirations #promo #vibecode #idea

Great and noble and valuable

Further, then, answer me this: Do you think freedom to be something great and noble and valuable? — “How should I not?” Is it possible, then, that he who acquires anything so great and valuable and noble should be mean-spirited?

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You have the option

Everywhere, at each moment, you have the option:
– to accept this event with humility
– to treat this person as he should be treated
– to approach this thought with care, so that nothing irrational creeps in.

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Goals versus aspirations

A distinction I’ve been making in recent years:

A goal is something specific. It will be clear when the goal is achieved. For me, goals should always be the classic specific, measurable, actionable, relevant, and time dependent, sort of SMART goals.

An aspiration is something directional. It will be clear when progress is made in the direction dictated by the aspiration.

The more goals I set, the worse my life becomes. I set great goals… big challenging, self-stretching goals. They pile on like dead weight and drag me down. Lose 10 pounds. Read an hour a day. …and so on.

Aspirations, being open-ended, don’t feel so daunting. Provided the aspirations lead to actual action, then I don’t need to worry about tomorrow. I can simply do the things—today, now—which are guided by my aspirations. Be someone who moves. Be exposed to lots of fresh ideas. Be someone who helps others. Be someone who creates value. Be someone whose mind works well.

What aspirations do you have?

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Giving young people education prepares them for a #brighter future and our dream is to see these #humans succeed in achieving their #goals and #aspirations

Thanks Uganda Humanist Schools Trust for boosting our schools in infrastructural development and empowering vulnerable children keep in school.

More info about our school:
https://kasesehumanist.blogspot.com/

https://www.kasesehumanistschool.org/

With Science, we can progress

A quotation from Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Pro Sestio [For Publius Sestius], ch. 68 / sec. 143 (56-02 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2011)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #prosestio #aspirations #courage #endurance #future #glory #honor #immortality #mortality #persistence #posterity #reputation #tomorrow #virtue

Every day I become a stupider and stupider girl