The Armchair Collective
ideologies you choose.
About the project
armchair
noun
thing one sits in for relaxing and thoughtful activity;
collective
adj., noun
of, or relating to a group of individuals;
Curated
Curated
betterment
Project Petrichor
gratification
The nuance in Maslow's Hierarchy
connection
The true meaning of family ties
On attraction and love
spiritual architecture
Female zealots
States of Mind
Successful Prophets
somatic architecture
The predictability of humans
On Emotion
Eating well
Teenage brains aren't undeveloped, they're just doing something else
digital architecture
Creating a digital home for our digital selves
wealth architecture
From Zero
The latest
Articles
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Voluntary Censorship
The Value of the Sacred
In praise of the sage
Emotion and the Mind
Marginalia
Having a concept of death, far from being a uniquely human feat, is a fairly common trait in the animal kingdom
High culture now functions like a counterculture, entailing a conscious act of dissent from the mainstream ... it carries more social risk than reward. Preferring things that are old, distant, and difficult to those that are immediate and ubiquitous means alienating oneself from one’s community, in some cases from one’s own family. It is at best an inexplicable quirk, at worst a form of antisocial arrogance.
a number of studies indicating that frequent fasting cycles may ... increase side effects and even mortality ... daily fasting/TRF periods of approximately 12 hours appear to be associated with benefits without known negative effects
Excellent review of the effects of intermittent and periodic fasting. It looks like all of these are strategies (including the usual 14 or 16 hour daily fasts) best used regularly, but not ongoing, and the re-feeding period might be just as important as the fast. From the abstract:
[intermittent fasting] lasting from 12 to 48 hours and repeated every 1 to 7 days and [periodic fasting] lasting 2 to 7 days and repeated once per month
And from the conclusion:
the refeeding period that has more recently emerged as an equally important process involved in the regeneration, and possibly rejuvenation, of systems, including organs, cells and organelles.
Changelog
New article on Neil Postman's amusing ourselves to death now and then.
Updates to the predictability of humans.
New article on Voluntary Censorship.
A little pivot in the purpose of the site. It's always really been about this, but it's nice to finally have the elevator pitch. Only took a year and a half to get there since the relaunch of the site in April last year.
In that vein, having a go at summaries of the ideologies we explore on articles. Currently we have Voluntary Censorship and Predicting Human Behaviour. See what you think.