Jim Willis

  • updated my tumblr theme: http://jimwillis.org/ better? Really need to include an “About” post in there somewhere.

  • Life With Alacrity: Community by the Numbers, Part II: Personal Circles

    Life With Alacrity: Community by the Numbers, Part II: Personal Circles

    Unlike the group limits, personal limits actually measure something different: the number of connections that an individual can hold. They’re yet another thing that you must consider when thinking…

  • Morality: 2012: Online Only Video: The New Yorker

    Morality: 2012: Online Only Video: The New Yorker

    The social and cultural psychologist Jonathan Haidt talks with Henry Finder about the five foundations of morality, and why liberals often fail to get their message across. From “2012: Stories from…

  • I wish to say something tonight not of and concerning the Chinese and Sandwich-Islanders, but to and concerning you who hear me, who are said to live in New England; something about your condition, especially your outward condition or circumstances in this world, in this town; what it is, whether it is necessarily as bad as it is, whether it can’t be improved as well as not.

    It is generally admitted that some of you are poor, find it hard to get a living, haven’t always something in your pockets, haven’t paid for all the dinners you’ve actually eaten, or all your coats and shoes, some of which are already worn out. All this is very well known to all by hearsay and by experience. It is very evident what a mean and sneaking life you live, always in the hampers, always on the limits, trying to get into business and try to get out of debt, a very ancient slough, called by the Latins aes alienum, another’s brass,–some of their coins being made of brass,– and still so many living and dying and buried today by another’s brass; always promising to pay, promising to pay, with interest, tomorrow perhaps, and die today, insolvent; seeking to curry favor, to get custom, lying, flattering, voting, contracting yourselves into a nutshell of civility or dilating into a world of thin and vaporous generosity, that you may persuade your neighbor to let you make his shoes, or his hat or his coat or his carriage etc.

    Thoreau’s Journal 12/23/1846

  • Trying not to crack up when my 4yo says “chewin’ chocolate” each time I ask him what he’s doing.

  • The black spot on my soul gets a little bigger each time I buy produce at Costco.

  • What’s opened in 07701? Where can I get the salty meats with which to start my new year?

  • Findings – For Good Self-Control, Try Getting Religious About It – NYTimes.com

    Findings – For Good Self-Control, Try Getting Religious About It – NYTimes.com

    “Religious people, he said, are self-controlled not simply because they fear God’s wrath, but because they’ve absorbed the ideals of their religion into their own system of values, and have…

  • Thinking about what a flourishing Red Bank looks like in 2009. More culture, less couture.

  • Single Spot Camping

    Single Spot Camping

    SingleSpotCamping.com™ is a brand new website which offers all land- and lot owners to present their own “single-spot-camping”. The idea is: Anyone who owns land (it can even consist of your garage…

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Reading Notes

  • Read: Manufactured Anxiety: How Self-Improvement Became a Self Destruct Sequence
    Who profits from our constant state of dissatisfaction? The answer, of course, is painfully obvious. Every industry that sells a solution to a problem you […]
  • Read: My Friends Aren’t Reading
    the shifts have been in place for awhile. A certain kind of book—say those reviewed in the NYRB—will become like opera, or theater, or ballet, […]
  • Read: Pema Chödrön’s Three Methods for Working with Chaos
    • No more struggle: “Whatever arises, train again and again in seeing it for what it is. The innermost essence of mind is without bias. […]
  • Read: Why Not Bluesky
    The real problem, in my mind, isn’t in the nature of this particular Venture-Capital operation. Because the whole raison-d’etre of Venture Capital is to make […]
  • Read: The Tech Coup
    . The EU invokes a mechanism called the precautionary principle in cases where an innovation, such as GMOs, has not yet been sufficiently researched for […]

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