Some things I consumed this week
April 13, 2025
Podcast: Jhanas and Hacking Agency - Stephen Zerfas
If you’ve navigated yourself to an impressive outcome in life, you may have learned that a tremendous amount of effort is a useful habit. In the process, it’s possible you became bottom 10th percentile at knowing how to relax. Approach with assumption that you don’t know what curiosity, enjoyment, relaxation actually is!
SABLE, fABLE - Bon Iver’s new album
“Sable” is this dark black color. It’s like a cartoon of sad Bon Iver music. The songs are like this last gasping breath of my former self that really felt bad for himself. “Fable” is about windows down, sunshine, everything is peaceful love. I love you. I’m finally in this place where I’m okay. I have my health, I have joy, I have love in my life everywhere I look.
He’s one of my favorite musicians, and it made me happy to hear him say this :)
Hearing him speak it out loud made it resonate so much for me than just reading the poem myself.
written in the body - bookbear express
I spent so many years of my life trying to live mostly in my head.
Intellectualizing kept me numbed out, and for a long time what I wanted was nothing more than to be numbed out, because when things hurt they hurt less. Whatever I felt like I couldn’t show people or tell people I hid away. I compartmentalized, and what I put in the compartment I never looked at became my shadow.
When you’re able to really inhabit and pay attention to your body, it becomes obvious what you want and don’t want, and the path towards your desires is clear.
