Michael Ashcroft
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8 linked references
April 27th, 2023
- general link to Michael Ashcroft's Alexander Technique stuff
June 20th, 2022
- hypothetical convo between Michael Ashcroft & Malcolm Ocean
- sources:
- MA: Michael Ashcroft
- MO: Malcolm Ocean
- MO > yo your vision is dope
- MO > this takes too long to type
April 8th, 2022
- looking at stats for my youtube channel, seeing that the video that got me the most subs by far was the one I recorded to Michael Ashcroft
- which, especially combined with Visa talking about people being prolific at each other, makes me think that the thing to do is record more 3-8 minute videos addressing people I know
- 13 subscribes out of 163 views (8%)
- 4 subs from 53 views for the "why telling people they're being coercive" vid with Pim, which is a similar ratio (7.5%)
- I could do this while out walking, as an alternative to spontaneously calling people, huh
- that seems like a great way to make the vids number go up!
October 12th, 2021
- Welcome to the day (inspired by Michael Ashcroft tweet quoting the one above)
- welcome to the day
- don't forget to play
- and don't forget to work on making things work
- for yourself and for the people you care about
- welcome to the day
- don't forget to say
- the things you need to say, whether with words
- or with art, or however it wants to come out
August 28th, 2021
- Michael Ashcroft > "thinking isn't bad, but going thinky, ie losing track of the rest of the world to have a thought, is bad"
May 16th, 2021
- from Michael Ashcroft's Alexander Technique course, even tho he said not to take notes
- > “Trying is only emphasising the thing we know already,” said Frederick Matthias Alexander, the originator of the Technique. You have no idea how you landed that shot so well, so all your trying is just emphasising the wrong thing.
- > Alexander captured the way out of this trap: “When you stop doing the wrong thing, the right thing does itself.” Don’t try to think. Instead, learn to stop doing the things that get in the way of thinking and just let thinking happen by itself.
- hm hm, deep truth to this and also tons of subtlety
- certain eternalish confusions near here
- > Things that are outside of your awareness are not accessible to you; you cannot choose to engage with something until your awareness includes it.
- this feels like something I've found frustrating about a lot of techniques
- they try to shortcircuit this
February 16th, 2021
call with Andrew Schreiber re his FocusBase app › M > I really want to influence you towards grokking the c…
- M > also check out Michael Ashcroft's Alexander Technique content
January 5th, 2021
- convo w Michael Ashcroft & visakanv
- V > talking about what people are doing wrong is what people are doing wrong
- V > Malcolm were you the one who sent me The Fifth Discipline? y
- lots of stuff there that resonates with Friendly Ambitious Nerd
- V > this tweet
- I think you can do better, in terms of stickiness
- I've been trying to do the same thing for me
- we're doing complementary things
- researching cultural institutions
- the further you zoom in on history of progress, the spikier it gets
- the big question: how do you make a scene? / a Golden Age
- capital, academia, open culture
- me: building cultural institutions on the internet
- people playing long games
- Mal > I think V you're trying to get 10s of thousands of people to be more friendly
- V > cities outlast empires
- Mal > if you've a date in Constantiople, she will be waiting in Istanbul
- so many people so despondent
- V > my partner knows she married a visionary
- marrying a guy who is burdened with trying to create a world that doesn't exist
- idea of having a ritual for people leaving jobs
- Mich > what are we inviting people to?
- V > increase in freedom, chaos