Howdy, pilgrim! You're in the ^zhurnal, since 1999 a journal of musings on mind, method, metaphor, and matters miscellaneous (and never any LLM-AI-generated content). Read all 25+ years of it at zhurnaly.com, follow links, search, see About the Zhurnal, and try "Random Thoughts" in various categories! For gentle Mindfulness-Nonattachment-Oneness suggestions see Insight ...

What's New? ✨

_{... Be Kind to Future You ... Eat Your Ice Cream ... Just Let It Sit There and Find Its Own Way ... Education and Human Capital ... Caregiving Advice ... Best Friend ... World Models vs Large Language Models ... Men, Angels, and Governments ... Language, Consciousness, Culture ... George Saunders on Three Things ... Warren Buffett Thanksgiving Thoughts 2025 ... Nuno Loureiro ... Dancing Is an Act of Remembering ... Alexithymia, Technology, and Meditation ... Meliorism ... Meditations on Design ... Philip Pullman's Muse ... The Brown One, The Honey Eater, The Shaggy Coat, The Destroyer ...}

Awareness 🪷

... an evolving matrix of potential patterns ... for gentle Mindfulness-Nonattachment-Oneness suggestions see Insight ...

_{( cf tips on How to Navigate the Awareness Matrix, and Core Buddhism (2011-10-17), O (2012-10-24), 01 (2013-11-05), Mantra - Mindfulness, Nonattachment, Oneness (2017-01-25), Mindfulness in Three Words (2018-06-13), Mantra - Be Meta, Be Open, Be Love (2018-11-11), Meditation Map (2019-01-19), Awakening Matrix (2019-04-29), Mind Matrix in toki pona (2023-03-13), ...)}

Systems Thinking Cartoons ⚖️

_{Throw a Ball ... Foxes, Rabbits, and Grass ... Terminal Velocity ... Oscillators ... Decay Rates ... Pachinko Probability Distribution ... Logic ... Model Validation ... Knowledge Organization ... Arms Race - Beyond Competition ... National Economy ... Deception ... Learn, Work, Save ... Nuclear Triad - Revolution vs Stability ... Success to the Successful ... Technique, Tools, Talent, Training, Time ...}

_{(causal flow diagrams using LOOPY, an ultralight tool for system mapping ©2020-2022 MITRE Corporation)}