>[!note] before you embark… >📖 check the [[trail guide - public|trail guide]] 📖 # 1. identity and knowing the self thru time - [[{1.1} 🌲 identity as self-definition]] - [[{1.1a} 🌲 a strong identity requires a sense of continuity]] - [[{1.1a1b} 🌲 shock disrupts the continuity of one's identity and their understanding of their inner and outer worlds]] - [[{1.1a1c} 🌲 stability is connection to, while recovery is reorientation toward, one's location in time and space]] - [[{1.1a1c1} 🌲 life data as an identity graph with time as an axis]] - [[{1.1b} 🌲 it's unclear whether our identities are innate and discovered or not innate and created]] - [[{1.2} 🌲 partitioning, performing, and projecting]] ^e334fd >[!quote]- related quotes and highlights >- [[{1q.1a1a1} honor both the remembering self and the experiencing self|honor both the remembering self and the experiencing self]] > - [[{1q.1a1a2} we are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be|we are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be]] > - [[{1q.1a1a3} identity is not fixed]] > - [[{1q.1a1a3a} to continue to grow and learn, you must be willing to update, expand, and edit your identity]] > - [[{1q.1a1a4a} i often feel the call to write about heavy life experiences]] > - [[{1q.1a1a4b} a journal as an experiment with consciousness]] > - [[{1q.1a1a4c} ⭐ what matters to her is to seize this time]] > - [[{1q.1a1a4c1} ⭐ these notes intensify the inner life]] > - [[{1q.1a1a4d} writing, especially about one's life, is a process of telling half-truths]] > - [[{1q.1a1a5} to accept one's past is not the same thing as drowning in it]] > - [[{1q.1a1a5a} cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it]] > - [[{1q.1a1a5b} you can't choose your history, but you can choose the story you tell about it]] > - [[{1q.1a1c3} time does not give one much leeway]] >- [[{1q.1a3} ⭐ the wave does not have to die to become water|the wave does not have to die to become water]] >- [[{1q.2a} performing and partitioning and projecting are the individual steps that make up the dance of avoidance]] # 2. big tech, data, and ownership - [[{2.1} 🌲 we're losing the magic of our life's ephemera to the cloud]] >[!quote]- related quotes and highlights >- [[{2q.1b2} historically buying something made it yours to use how you saw fit]]