a linkdump of one: lessons from stars
A reminder to myself I find useful now and then, and the biggest, certainly not easiest, thing I've learned from Feri-flavoured folks over the years is simply encouraging everyone to shine. Even oneself. Especially oneself, because that can be the hardest. Life is not a zero-sum game. It's a massively multiplayer collaborative game of creative building and distribution of plentiful resources. Interpersonally, culturally, or macroeconomically, we lose by playing any other way.
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Not unrelatedly, to read with kleenex available: Mike Massimino's story of the space walk in which he broke the Hubble Space Telescope on purpose: on hope, fear, the darkness and loneliness of working in space, on the blue marble, and on coming home. I got teary when I heard him speak about this in the semi-public servicing mission debriefing for our office, and I got teary when I read this polished version yesterday.
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Not unrelatedly, to read with kleenex available: Mike Massimino's story of the space walk in which he broke the Hubble Space Telescope on purpose: on hope, fear, the darkness and loneliness of working in space, on the blue marble, and on coming home. I got teary when I heard him speak about this in the semi-public servicing mission debriefing for our office, and I got teary when I read this polished version yesterday.