Digital Garden
A collection of thoughts and articles at different development stages
Borderline Personality Disorder
Overlapping Autistic and BPD Traits Sensitivity to Abandonment Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria is common among Autists and ADHDers. Rejection sensitivity is an intense sensitivity to rejection or perceived rejection. People with RSD often go to great lengths to avoid situations that cause them to feel rejected. They also have strong reactions when they perceive themselves as being rejected. A Diffuse Sense of Self A diffuse sense of self. A core feature of BPD is a “diffuse sense of self” or lack of “self-identity,” often resulting from early childhood development/trauma.
books to read that have Mystery around the big element
Prince of Nothing (grimdark) #todo-read Memory, Sorry, & Thorn by Tad Williams #todo-read The Winnowing Flame series by Jen Williams #todo-read Thomas Covenant by Stephen R. Donaldson #todo-read Elderling books by Robin Hobb. #todo-read Frostborn novels by Jonathan Moeller #todo-read Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera #todo-read Runelords by Davis Farland. #todo-read
Critical Mass of Ideas
To create an Archipelago of Ideas, you divergently gather a group of ideas, sources, or points that will form the backbone of your essay, presentation, or deliverable. Once you have a critical mass of ideas to work with, you switch decisively into [[convergence mode]] and link them together in an order that makes sense. — Building a Second Brain:
Bottom up idea and project refinement
Encourage bottom up idea and project refinement: Brainstorm all the thoughts, big and small Search for supplement material and refine Review other projects and archives for reusable work Add or tag new material each review Actual project plan / Archipelago Outlining Continuing refinement and connecting the archipelago Continuing refinement and connecting the archipelago Actual project plan / archipelago Add or tag new material each review Review other projects and archives for reusable work Search for supplement material and refine Brainstorm
Archipelago of Ideas
The Archipelago of Ideas technique is a contemporary reinvention of the age-old practice of outlining—laying out the points you want to include up front, so that when it comes time to execute all you have to do is string them together. — Building a Second Brain
Taxonomies and Tagging
For millennia, philosophers and academics have been obsessed with finding a universal way of organizing humanity’s knowledge. As far back as the fourth century BCE, Aristotle attempted to classify all knowledge into ten broad themes. In the sixteenth century, English philosopher Francis Bacon argued that all human knowledge could be sorted into just three categories: memory, reason, and imagination. In the twentieth century, the Indian librarian Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan proposed classifying knowledge by personality, matter, energy, space, and time.
Decompensating
“To decompensate means to lose the ability to maintain one’s state of mental health, typically due to some kind of stress. The word decompensate is most often applied to someone who is having a breakdown in their mental health mechanisms, especially someone who has an existing mental illness or psychological condition.”
Purposes for Daily Notes
Purposes for Daily Notes which of these are mine? #todo-admin #todo-personal #todo-workflow ✅ 2022-08-30 #todo-workflow 📅 2022-08-30 set this quick note up (so i never NEED to open daily note): https://thesweetsetup.com/journaling-workflow-for-appending-to-daily-notes-with-quickadd-video/ consider daily note capture types above ✅ 2022-08-30 consider lazy route too: https://github.com/ryanjamurphy/lumberjack-obsidian ✅ 2022-08-30 also figure out workbench options » signal search ✅ 2022-08-30 Going with Flexible pomo and will replace sprint plugin with that as well ✅ 2022-08-30 My Daily Log Types Clarity:
Consequences of an intuition based society
Consequences of an intuition based society for Illara / Xenai would be that in order to hide your feelings people were often arrange large group areas to have meetings in so that their personal feelings were less obvious Xenai have the added complexity / inability to lie and cover due to their smoke
You Learn the Most From the First 10 Percent of a Painting
You Learn the Most From the First 10 Percent of a Painting The rough sketch, silhouette, & shape design in only black and white Color design is the next step (up to 20%) related:: art, mastery, #mastery/art «««< HEAD ======= 7e8ed71cb6e09f26bb9fd4c21e4c98b89ef4abd4
RECIPE dumplings keto
Simple-ish gluten free low-ish carb dumplings that go great with some Hungarian goulash. Keto-Gluten-Free Dumplings: 1 1/2 cups almond flour 1/2 cup coconut flour 1 teaspoon xanthan gum* 1 tablespoon tallow or ghee, melted 1/2 teaspoon sea salt 1/4 teaspoon black pepper 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 cup coconut milk, canned unsweetened 1 large egg
PARA system lacks continual reminder of long term goals and self improvement
I think my issue with PARA is there is no place for long-term goals. This is mastery in my system. Area is for responsibilities. While mastery may include some responsibilities or areas, its more than those, and more than projects and still needs resources. With this in mind, I re-orged into my mapgal--(private link) system
The cetacean’s paralimbic lobe processes information rapidly with extreme richness
The cetacean’s Paralimbic Lobe Processes Information Rapidly with Extreme Richness The paralimbic lobe is also believed to be a continuation of the sensory and motor areas found in the supralimbic lobe in human brains. For humans, projection areas are widely separated from one another, meaning anything we perceive from sight, sound and impulses must travel along fibre tracts with a great loss of time and information. The cetacean’s paralimbic lobe brings this all together in one, processing information rapidly with a richness that we cannot understand.
Mycology
Mycology Truffles: a lure. Use their strong acent to overcome smell of a forest to be unearthed and eaten. The hum of the blight crystal is the lure — similarly the hum of other source is as well Replace smell with sound that transmits images : nodules on the source network meant to be picked up by source races » the blight field is an attempt to communicate. Or manipulate.
Imprints
Imprints Imprints are unique runes, or a series of runes, that absorb and hold source that can then be unleashed at a later time by anyone using the Runeword. The Erdu homeworld is filled with Imprinted Manuscripts, stolen from the other worlds. Imprinted books that are insanely powerful. (think, the magical version of Illuminated Manuscripts):  mysteriously dumped onto the SatNet. With this knowledge in hand, she starts up her own Underground power lab with the intent of giving the underprivleged residents of the Underground true freedom through Source power. #wiki/character Universe Array of Worlds Related Array Characters
Stromcasting
Stromcasting Type: Terrestrial Element Manipulation of Air Mastered By → Shara → Retona → Personality Leaders, very opinionated. Over time, casters become very polarized, believing in extremes and forming strong opinions. Prone to sudden mood changes. Sub-schools Sparkcasting ^aaa458 performed by detecting the charge in the air and pulling the positive charges to the caster and placing negatives on the target. These spells can ‘track’ their target. Universe: Array of Worlds Related: Source, sourcecast
Spaced Repetition
Flashcard based study method that takes advantage of recall and the forgetting curve. A flashcard is tested again when you are about to forget it, making the work to remember the answer harder, but solidifying the synaptic connections. First tested in 1978, studies have since been done that show improvement (over regular quizing or notetaking) in memory of everyone from college students to Alzheimer patients. Spaced Repetition Tools Anki Obsidian Spaced Repetition Plugin Neuracache SRS app that can use plain text and markdown files as its data source Incremental Writing--(private link) (Obsidian Plugin & methodology) Universe: The Array
Source power
Commonly known in the earlier eras of Allsource as Intuition. Source power is that ability to connect to Array of Worlds and to Allsource. While most things with high Source power are sentient beings, objects can be imbued with source power. These objects do not have Intuition, which is why Source power becomes the correct technical term to use when discussing Source at the end of the Second Era when Source evolves from being mostly sourcecast based to being a form of technology.
Source dominance
Natural Affinity to Different Elements Source dominance is the element of Source that a caster is naturally attuned to. Source-mancers Able to attune to all Terrestrial Elements, Source-mancers are considered ‘dominant’ in Source. However, this typically manifests as a wide area of dominance that has little depth. Universe: the array
Source conduit
Purpose Source conduits are needed to traverse the Array. There are natural conduits that exist, specifically the Erdu, who are made of conduit materials. Any Source crystal, whether it is a Terrestrial Element or an Exotic Element 101, can be used as a conduit with enough Source power. However, Exotic Element 101s also function as conduits themselves, although they contain less Source power than a sourcecast. Universe: the array
Source
sourcecasting is made possible by Intuition. All source-capable people first have Intuition. For reference on the levels of Intuition, see Intuition. Source-casting is part learned skill and natural ability. Illara and Inari children are born with innate attunements to certain Terrestrial Element. This natural ability is then augmented through rigorous training. Due to the reliance on natural ability, the two way nature of casting, and the time requirement for mastery, most casters reach Mastery in only a single element.
Serrun
Leader of the Xenai high council, called the Maharin. She continually seeks the answer to the Xenai problem: procreation, but is often at odds with Merende regarding their preferred methods to find a way to create Xenai children. #wiki/character Universe Array of Worlds Related Array-Characters
seacast
Type: Terrestrial Element Manipulation of Water Mastered By → Shara → Eriami → Personality People pleasers — good friends & allies. Sleep well and slow to anger. They are also easy to manipulate and change their minds, as they just ‘go with the flow’ most of the time. Universe: Array of Worlds Related: Source, sourcecast
Sarke
Family: Yorgen, Nartha, Vin Yorgen’s brother. Injured when they were young, Sarke had to relinquish the role of provider for their family to Yorgen, who was drafted into the guild of the Hunters in Ceafield by Marie. Universe Array of Worlds Related Array-Characters #wiki/character
Runes
Runes are used to capture or absorb source and are the foundation of Imprints. Runes in their most simple form cannot contain source, but simply absorb and diffuse source. To hold onto the source, like a battery for later, an imprint must be used. Universe Array of Worlds
routine
Routines Are a Demand Postponing an action item creates the feeling of demand and the demand avoidance reaction. Routines are nothing but postponed actions. Especially scheduled routines–as the pre-task dread can build up until the time for the routine comes up (and goes by, undone & unstarted)
priorities
“Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do.” —John Carmack “I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.” — Live with Purpose, Live by Priority, and Live for Productivity.
Notes on React.js, Gatsby, and node.js
Notes on React.js, Gatsby, and node.js Key-React-Concept:: Writing a React Component «««< HEAD There are three main steps to writing a React component: Import React from the ‘react’ package, so that you can use JSX inside your .js file. Define your component. It should be a function that returns a JSX element. Export your component, so that it can be used by other parts of your site. my-component.
nitric acid
#todo-research nitric acid & process metadata » NAC and nitric acid somehow correlated since I had a similar effect from taking NAC regularly? What was the context that I read about on this that made me want to see if NAC and nitric acid somehow correlated since I had a similar effect from taking NAC regularly?
Modern Content Consumption
Modern Content Consumption A Study Cited by the Times Estimates That We Consume the Equivalent of 174 Full newspapers’ Worth of Content Daily, Five Times Higher Than in 1986. ^9a4c1c Apps to Reduce Content Overload ^1526e3 Mailbrew : links into apps and interests to send you the highlights once a day Readwise: Can sync notes from articles & things saved to Obsidian. Also can send a review email daily with 5 random notes from Kindle and other ‘read later’ apps Memory Should Be Treated as Finite Resource, Only Reviewing Things Worth the Space Look into the apps on this page for reducing content overload #todo-personal
Merende
#wiki/character #planning/project #wiki/short Merende Merende was the first known sourcecast on Psyllis. Working in a mine, he stumbled upon a diamond and was able to unlock Lifecast as the first known use of Source on that world. Although the Illara histories say he died a painful and tragic death, his physician, Kerai, was able to continue his work unlocking the mysteries of Lifecast. Universe Array of Worlds Related Array-Characters
Memory
Memory “Chance favors the prepared mind. “– Louis Pasteur Freedom “It is in the power of remembering that the self’s ultimate freedom consists. I am free because I remember.” — Abhinavagupta, tenth-century Kashmiri philosopher and mystic. ^451016 Allsource concept of Freedom as a sentient planet? Ultimate question, what does Agency look like to a being that cannot exert its will or act in accordance to its will? ^bd46b4
marketing
Marketing You have to believe, in the deepest part of your soul, that it is a good thing for readers to buy and read your book. - Tim Grahl Timeline for Book Launches START active promo one month before release for pre-orders share as much about the book as possible. Include excerpts, rewritten sections of the book, and other useful and fun content. Send six emails over the course of the four weeks leading up to the launch of the book Create scarcity around your book launch by creating bonuses that are only available when fans preorder your book Make it easy for people to participate, by creating an email address that preorder buyers can forward their receipt to It’s much better to leverage your fans’ social media followings than it is to try and grow your own Our goal is to make the whole process as close as possible to people being able to share your book with just a single click.
Linking and Pulling Data
Linking and Pulling Data #clip Workflow Tips: Linking and Pulling Data Blocks Are Individually Linkable in Obisidian by Adding a ^ After a Bracket Link You have to use your keyboard to nav, though. Cannot currently click on them once they pop up Search Results Can Be Dragged and Dropped onto a Page This creates a link to the page in the current one Tags Are Best Used for Things You Will Want to Later Query with Dataview If you are wondering how to take the things you encounter and turn them into a captivating, unique, and finalized product—you’ll get quite a bit out of this live note-making session with Eleanor Konik.
Kingston Cross
#wiki/character Kingston Cross Born on Jaru, Kingston has spent more time in the various worlds inside the Array of Worlds than anyone else. Ruler of Century, a small farming village north of Prin, he moves his people to Prin when the Xenai begin to march towards their area of the continent. universe:: the Array related:: Array-Characters, Olivier, James, Marie, Marie
Journey Before Destination
Journey Before Destination A not-so-funny thing happens along the way to extraordinary results. Untidiness. Unrest. Disarray. Disorder ^0959ac chaos is guaranteed to show up. In fact, other areas of your life may experience chaos in direct proportion to the time you put in on your ONE Thing. It’s important for you to accept this instead of fighting it. ^be40e0
Intuition
Intuition More technically known as Source power, Intuition is the ability to connect to Array of Worlds and to Allsource. Nature Intuition is on the chaos side of the Chaos Order Spectrum of Source. It is considered a feminine force. Levels of Intuition Sensing the feelings of others and conveying thoughts via feelings Bi-directionality (mastery) : Shara used this in the UG in SoS to comfort Dolores when they were stuck in the mob, Fiher uses this to implant nightmares in Hafi and James.
Information Theory
Information Theory Claude Shannon, whose discoveries paved the way for modern technology, had a simple definition for “information”: that which surprises you. Information is That Which Surprises You If you’re not surprised, then you already knew it at some level, so why take note of it? Data Is Rarely Surprisingly in and of Itself; Only the Relationships and Contrasts Between Data Are Content Overload & Data Science
Immersion
Immersion Imagine a lake. All beginning writers just try to get their readers to go out across the top of the lake. But the surface of that lake is the line that allows a reader to leave your story. If the reader gets above that surface line, they put the book down. ^c5b6c2 A story with depth is one that the writer takes the reader and drags the reader under the surface and down the steep slope to the bottom of the lake.
Hum
The Hum that is frequently heard (or felt) inside any of the worlds of Array of Worlds is associated with resonance in the Void: meaning a creature or object with high levels of Source power or Intuition is at a location in The Void that mirrors the location the person hears the sound at. This is frequently the sign that an Erdu is nearby, however it also can signify that the location is near one of the Void Gates.
Exercise
Exercise walking Boosts the Brain’s creativity A Stanford study from 2014 found that walking indeed boosts creative output by an average of 60%. Walking has also been found to promote new connections between brain cells and stave off the usual withering of brain tissue. «««< HEAD aliases: [Exercise] author: “arcwtf” tags: cssClass: tbl-b tbl-nalt tag-text hc h-line clean-embeds date: 2022-08-17 draft: false garden_tags: lastmod: 2022-08-21 garden_tags: status: compost summary: title: Exercise Exercise walking Boosts the Brain’s creativity A Stanford study from 2014 found that walking indeed boosts creative output by an average of 60%.
demand
Demand Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list—a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results. —–The ONE Thing I want you to take The 80-20 Principle to an extreme. I want you to go small by identifying the 20 percent, and then I want you to go even smaller by finding the vital few of the vital few. What not to Do To: Avoiding Increasing Demand → Postponing / procrastinating an Action Increases the perception of the Demand →
Content Overload
Content Overload Data As Reference Rather Than Focus is Important to Be Able to Perform the Work That is Vital to Humanity “Every bit of energy we spend straining to recall things is energy not spent doing the thinking that only humans can do: inventing new things, crafting stories, recognizing patterns, following intuition, collaboration, investigating new subjects, making plans, testing theories.” Tiago Forte “Building a Second Brain” by Tiago Forte (Kindle) #todo-read @completed(2022-09-08T23:57:58) This is Why the Field of Data Science Exploded; We Were Data Focused and Realized We Weren’t Doing Anything with That Data
brain cells
Brain Cells Unwritten page! (Created this so that my static site generator didn’t panic. You also should not panic. This is calling to me to be written from my pile of Inbox notes) Universe: To better understand these differences, the researchers first asked whether there are there any cell types uniquely present in humans or other analyzed non-human primate species. After grouping cells with similar expression profiles they revealed 109 shared primate cell types but also five that were not common to all species.
Workflow
What you build today will either empower or restrict you tomorrow THE FOUR THIEVES OF PRODUCTIVITY: ^bd9780 Inability to Say “No” Fear of Chaos Poor Health Habits Environment Doesn’t Support Your Goals Someone once told me that one “yes” must be defended over time by 1,000 “nos.” Early in my career I didn’t understand this at all. Today, I think it’s an understatement. ^028bae You are the first domino.
Skill
mastery isn’t a word we often hear anymore, but it’s as critical as ever to achieving extraordinary results. As intimidating as it might initially seem, when you can see mastery as a path you go down instead of a destination you arrive at, it starts to feel accessible and attainable. → The path of mastering something is the combination of not only doing the best you can do at it, but also doing it the best it can be done.
SatNet
#wiki/tech Satellite network in orbit over Sunterra. After the Sundering a majority of nodes were destroyed, far past the networks ability to compensate, resulting in the survivors reverting to text only communications that can transmit so quickly that no data is lost. If they have to send large data packages they have to connect into a SatNet tower. Primary Towers are part of the terrrestrial redundant network. Technology advanced to the point that a mountain facility like the one outside Prin could store enough data to hold the internet (far larger amounts of data than ours) in six sites across the globe.
Interest-Based Nervous System
We live in the default mode network and have a very hard time task switching because dopamine is literally the chemical trigger to swap between the task network in the brain and the default mode network Since the default mode network is very heavily geared towards input, interconnection and processing, what can we do to amplify these strengths rather than using the task network for tasks? #todo-research Interest-Based Nervous System Follow the Dopamine The 4Cs of Neuro-divergent Motivation - Captivate What captivates your interest?
Array Late Second Era Design Idea
Array Late Second Era Design Idea Imprinted manuscripts and embellishments / embroidery merge: embroidery becomes a power source when done like an imprinted manuscript and using source crystals in the weave. This could be the mark of the pakora specifically
Writing
Writing #active/si This is also how you should be when you write: writing notes does writing. You disappear: you are simply recording the thoughts that are streaming through you. […] WRITERS LIVE TWICE. They go along with their regular life, are as fast as anyone in the grocery store, crossing the street, getting dressed for work in the morning. But there’s another part of them that they have been training.
The Renewal Holiday Period
The Renewal Holiday Period #wiki/lore The Renewal is a Week Long Holiday of Allsource. During the five days of the Renewal, Erdus take a break from their normal week schedule that revolves around their work to keep Allsource pruned. Universe Array of Worlds
The Palors
The Palors Founded by the first generation of children synthetically created from the line of Shara & Yorgen. Originally called only “Xenari” (as a race categorization), they take on the name of the Palors when they become an official fighting unit. Many of them sacrifice themselves when re-creating the Allsource network to end The Sundering, guided by Xenai Seers. Each Palor is required to have mastery of all Exotic Elements, with basic knowledge of all Terrestrial Elements.
Sunder Series
Sunder Series #active #wiki/series Universe: The Array Summary Set in the Sundering Era, the Sunder Series explores the worlds of Array of Worlds and the events that lead to the transformation from the relative normality of the First Era into the chaos of the Second Era. Novels Unnamed Olivier Novel Song of Sundering Herald & Harbinger Daughter of the Void Novellas A Hunter of Ceafield The Ravenous Void Short Stories Heart of the Mountain Unnamed Vin Short Story All Stories in Chronological Order Olivier Novel #todo-someday Heart of the Mountain [short story] Song of Sundering [novel] A Hunter of Ceafield [novella] The Ravenous Void [novella] Unnamed Vin Short Story #todo-someday day [short story] Herald & Harbinger [novel] Daughter of the Void [novel] Universe The Array
Spotcasting
Spotcasting Type: Exotic Element 101 Discovery Order: 2 Description Lilac colored spires of crystals. Rich in lithium, a source of energy. Can also be used to calm people, to the point of rendering them totally unresponsive. It empowers all forms of source, since it makes energy production easier. Can also be used to absorb carbon dioxide, oxygen and nitrogen from the surrounding air, then energize it with water to create fire.
Source-mancer
Source-mancer #wiki/Source Source dominance & Source power Source-mancy is determined by a wide gift of Source dominance, but does not technically require strong Source power or Intuition. because of this, historically most Source-mancers are a “jack of all trades, master of none” → Rando Ideas That May Be Terrible ← → Sourcemancers have to be neurodivergent. → Neurotypicals have a single presentation of their self to the world, which results in only being able to attune a single element that reflects who they are → Source-mancers develop the ability to mask which allows them to attune difference elements: one for each mask → Which means elements reflect personalities Universe Array of Worlds
Purpose-driven Priority
Purpose-driven Priority → What’s visible to the public—productivity and profit—is always buoyed by the substance that serves as the company’s foundation— purpose and priority. → → All businesspeople want productivity and profit, but too many fail to realize that the best path to attaining them is through purpose-driven. Related to → purpose → priority
Orphaned Worlds
Orphaned Worlds Worlds that exist outside of Allsource due to data corruption. They are almost entirely disconnected from the web of her timelines and realities. These are the only worlds that will survive the prophecy of the Herald & Harbinger Universe Array of Worlds
Orbcasting
Orbcasting Type: Exotic Element 101 Discovery Order: Description Teal and Orange. Hybrid crystal, allows for manipulation of earth and air. Also melts anything into a form of lava. Interactions Source World Sunterra History Universe: Array of Worlds Related: Source, sourcecast
Mooncasting
Mooncasting Type: Terrestrial Element Manipulation of Earth Mastered By → Shara → Channoon → Personality Stubborn, but logical. Casters tend towards sedentary lifestyles, and can become stubborn to the point of obstinence. Universe: Array of Worlds Related: Source sourcecast
Moderation
Moderation I haven’t had a vanilla life by any means: I’ve climbed mountains, undergone military training, hitchhiked around North America in winter without a long-term plan or a penny to my name, and have done countless other things that require a certain amount of derring-do and mettle, but one of the things I find hardest of all is moderation; behind only doing as I’m told The PDA Paradox Related To ADHD
LINKING Events and [emotions](emotion.md) Creates Healing From Trauma
LINKING Events and emotions Creates Healing From Trauma Studies show that its LINKING events and emotions that creates healing. Telling the events like a timeline OR just venting emotions doesn’t heal, only events and emotions together Write & discuss in a way that links past feelings and current feelings to specific events. - tell a complex story. Give to sorrow words. → William Shakespeare When I truly understand my enemy, in that moment, I also love him.
Lifecasting
Lifecasting Type: Terrestrial Element Manipulation of Carbon Based Lifeforms (used for healing) Mastered By → Shara → Merende → Kerai Personality Vivacious types with high libido. Extreme mastery allows the user to control the movements of other lifeforms. Universe: Array of Worlds Related: Source, sourcecast
Input is Needed for Any Creative Endeavor
Input is Needed for Any Creative Endeavor My inhalation period is when I am feeling down and listless. I see this as prime time for reading more, playing a bit of guitar, sleeping for longer, observing more, essentially absorbing some of the nutrients of life. It is important that when I am feeling this fragile that I don’t force myself out of it. If I don’t feel like exercising then I won’t, and if I don’t feel like socialising then I’ll be a hermit.
Hyperbolic Discounting
Hyperbolic Discounting Economists have long known that even though people prefer big rewards over small ones, they have an even stronger preference for present rewards over future ones—even when the future rewards are MUCH BIGGER. → → the further away a reward is in the future, ← ← → → the smaller the immediate motivation to achieve it. ← ←
Harbinger
Harbinger Unwritten page! (Created this so that my static site generator didn’t panic. You also should not panic. This is calling to me to be written from my pile of Inbox notes) Universe: The Array cssClass: tbl-b tbl-nalt tag-text hc h-line clean-embeds title: alias: draft: false garden_tags: summary: status: “seeding” Unwritten page! (Created this so that my static site generator didn’t panic. You also should not panic.
Habits and Consistency Are [neurotypical](neurotypical.md) Traits
Habits and Consistency Are neurotypical Traits Not for the neurodivergent Supporting evidence: adhd: low dopamine inhibits the switch from the default mode network in the brain to the task network, which is why neurodivergent people are astounded to find out that ‘most people’ do not have the constant stream of thoughts all day while working. We have no concept that our brains can shut off the ‘noise’ while we do tasks.
Goals & Obstacles
Goals & Obstacles “We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.” —Robert Brault Goal Setting to the Now set a future goal and then methodically drill down to what you should be doing right now. → Russian dolls / matryoshka dolls → nest down to the NOW THING inside the WILD, crazy, BIG thing → nesting your now things connects today / right now to all the tomorrows it will take to make the BIG thing a reality “We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.
Gates
Gates Holes in The Void where an incompatible piece of Source touched the Void and created a thinning in the barrier. During a Sundering, these Gates will physically manifest in the worlds that are actively colliding. Seen to the viewers as sparks of light that grow from the horizon until they appear like tears in the sky. Traversing through a Gate during the prime Sundering event gives the traveller a 50% chance of survival.
Exotic Elements 101
Exotic Elements 101 #wiki/Source Why Exotic Elements Are Different From Terrestrial Elements Exotic elements have their own connection to Source (or Source power). When used by a sourcecast, they amplify the Source-caster’s abilities (within their respective fields of Source dominance). Universe Array of Worlds
Exotic Elements
Exotic Elements The Void is a manifestation of connection to Allsource. From this connection rises higher forms of Intuition, which is the core of being able to manipulate the world with the Terrestrial Elements. The further from Allsource that a world is, the more the the blueprint muddies: so Exotic Element 101s arise. Like rogue branches in a code repository, they must be eliminated or merged into the Master branch. This is the job of the Erdu.
Erdu
#wiki/race Erdu Cleaning up the Multiverse, One Branch at a Time The Erdu are essentially Allsource’s cleanup processes. When a world is ready to be merged with another, they manage the process, intentionally breaking down the Void between those two worlds until they ‘collide’. This is why Allsource’s data validity is so important and their entire society is structured around maintaining its integrity: when two similar worlds merge, there is no notable effect.
Erdcasting
Erdcasting Type: Exotic Element 101 Discovery Order: 9 Description Blue crystals in humanoid form The Erdu themselves are the crystals for casting. Because they are made of their Source element, they have no need to use Intuition or other schools of source. They exist in harmony with their element, which allows them to see / hear the entire universe. Quatum mechanics shit. Vibrations between molecules making a song to them that is their language.
Dravcasting
Dravcasting Type: Exotic Element 101 Discovery Order: 0 Description Golden or pale yellow crystal Dravite interacts with blood / DNA in all lifeforms, allowing for systemic effect when implanted with other elements. It provides a sort of ‘tuning’ effect, syncing vibrations and manipulating them (think quantum physics level) — the bonds between molecules. However, it does not have a network to spread changes through unless combined with the Blight Crystals.
Daughter of the Void
Daughter of the Void #planning/project #wiki/novel Universe: Array of Worlds Summary After the second cataclysmic Sundering impacts Sunterra, the survivors left by Shara are rushing to figure out what happened. Stuck in the Void, they face Kingston who is not entirely the man they remember. Universe Array of Worlds
Cosmology
Cosmology #wiki Nine worlds (or branches) spring from Allsource. Each world is associated with what were known on Old Terra as the Nine Muses, who are also the Nine Erdu and known by the Illarans as Mystics. Allsource serves as a hub for all the worlds. Beyond Allsource, the barrier between worlds, is The Void. The worlds began to collapse out of their rigid structure and collide with each other in the Sundering Era.
Concentration
Concentration “Going small” is ignoring all the things you could do and doing what you should do. It’s recognizing that not all things matter equally and finding the things that matter most. It’s a tighter way to connect what you do with what you want. It’s realizing that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus. —–The ONE Thing
Chaos & Order Spectrum of Source
Chaos & Order Spectrum of Source The Nature of All Things Whether Source-attuned or not, all things in all worlds fall on the Chaos or Order side of the Spectrum of Source. Most things are fairly central and can shift to either side, particularly sentient creatures of all kinds. However, the more important something is to the balance of Array of Worlds, the more it swings to one side or the other.
Blightcasting
Blightcasting Type: Exotic Element 101 Discovery Order: 1 Description The Blight Crystal is red, more opaque than clear, but looks like it has a transparent layer on the outside before turning opaque. The ‘mimic’ stone. It is Source itself (which Intuition is a fundamental part of). It connects all things, like a network. Once connected, it adapts and reforms, either creating new pathways to achieve new function or restore function. Left to iself, it tries to ‘fill in the gaps’ it finds.
Blight Field
Blight Field Hafi recognized what had been a forearm, with a hand still attached. A few fingers were missing, but the ones that were left held a stiff and slightly curled grasp that he had seen many times before. The lifeless hand gripped at the air in obvious torment before slipping back under the ripples of crimson fluid. Ideas: Blight Crystal form in Blight Fields. Remnants of people and animals that died in the Sundering form the bodies, remade with Source as a Source conduit through The Void.