Rosano

Conversation is best as duet instead of duel.

conscious organizing is the practice After a bunch of time in Europe, I'm considering to move there for the foreseeable future as it seems like a place where life happens more obviously for me.

Some things without a price are valuable because they create change on a deeper level.

Sometimes the author says it better, sometimes I can, but the focus is on what's meaningful for me.

Dots connected looking back are also seeds for future moments that can't be predicted.

Reaching out to my younger self to say "it happened".

Practicing Mozart for a thousand hours means something different than whistling a tune.

We used to compose in solitude, without industry or recordings.

Hard to understand past experiences when you're constantly subjected to new things.

"Do good, without expecting gratitude, or looking at who."

less metadata, more feeling I'm grateful to have fallen asleep most days of my life; I could probably count on two hands the number of times I didn't.

music and bodies in trance 10h26 from Berlin / Germany

"Trying to unite separate networks with what we do."

Health is not the goal.

Unlock possibility for negotiation and understanding by just saying it.

Stress over being healthy can be unhealthy.

Work on it morning, afternoon, and night.

Inherently unsustainable if it needs a hundred percent of my time.

Prelude as engine, fugue as debate.

"In case I win the lottery, I want the ticket in my back pocket."

Understand what's important to the other side, and have empathy for it.

"We worship the greats while ignoring geniuses in front of us until they're gone."

Power wants you to consume instead of create, to be addicted rather than to enjoy.

What process gives you belongs only to you.

Present what you want as what they also want.

If it was guaranteed to feel good, I wouldn't be open to whatever happens.

Be patient without reducing them.

Speak and wait for your body to catch up.

Community is more than people in a space.

Turn watching into a choice.

If a part of the body is sick, the body is sick.

Would you force someone into a relationship?

"If a book's pages became increasingly similar until you were just reading the same page repeatedly, you'd probably put it down."

tuned out of tweets birds gathering on snow Still in Berlin; great to hang out a while here.

"people without school who know the language of nature" sharing this homework assignment not so much for the content, but the structure that suggests it's possible and even encouraged to do this in what other contexts might we celebrate the contributions…

If there's evolution in the world, then truth also evolves.

When one person doesn't want it, two don't fight.

"I'd rather be a reference to my community than recognized by a title that's specific to one context."

Practice in order to feel good.

the mechanics of augmenting human thought During my personal travels between 2018 to 2020, I recorded one minute of ambient sound in various places to practice being still and appreciating what's around me, especially the so-called 'noise' which, although…

Not ordinary to take hard decisions that no one around would take.

Seeking truth means addressing contradictions that you can't resolve, which might be less comfortable.

Feeling like you are responsible for and to the world gives you the strength to see past false narratives.

Go abroad to lose local political representation.

Languages help you empathize instead of feeling offended.

stay updated, scale big, or you'll get taken out.

less on social media, more in places I control After bringing home lyrics and Vibrations, I've moved over 150 music recommendations from Tumblr to my journal.

feels good to improve so much without a big 'redesign'.

friendly email addresses for bots I thought it would be fun to share a special public email address to feed hungry bots: sayhi@rosano.ca Anything sent there gets instantly reported as spam.

one surname is not "where you're from". various families represented as a 'cosmos' I've been interested to understand my family history for some years now.