Had a conversation with a friend about meditation last night and remembered my notes from researching how it works, how thoughts arise, why do I get into loops, etc.
I found a very good structure in Theravāda Buddhism, but I struggled with the terminology and mapping it to my rationalistic model of thinking.
This resulted in a very fruitful session with ChatGPT some time ago, and then a good set of notes, that actually helped me understand whats happening.
Now I've dusted this up and put it together to share with friends, hope it is useful for somebody.
Although I usually happen to read in all circumstances and positions, I've cracked the most comfortable reading position for me - on my desk, in my chair, e-reader propped in front of me, all other screens black.
I live in an southern EU country (Bulgaria). Up until some point in time AC was too expensive and not widely adopted in residential context. This started changing more then 10 years ago and now when almost the whole summer is a constant heatwave nobody rents an apartment without an AC.
There is another factor though - in the capital Sofia, using AC for heating in winder is actually cheaper than the central heating which is the alternative.
We travel to Greece a lot, and I've never seen a place without an AC there either.
The article brings some valid points. There's a lot to talk about in Web3 UX (as well as AI UX) and this is where the hatchet is buried.
Having said that, to me this article seems written with the help of ChatGPT. That is not bad per se but I feel it should be mentioned (eg. Venkatesh Rao's Sloptraptions)
