I see faces that I’m familiar with now. So again, I’m always like, okay, if they come back, it means it wasn’t so terrible. And also some new people who were referred by those who attended and liked it and then recommended my class to their friends. So again, I’m like, oh, word of mouth. Great.

But what I’ve been contemplating lately is, what exactly is the benefit that is being generated here? Or that I’m trying to convey, which I think is one of the secret sauces, or the MSG, of meditation. And those who know me will find this very ironic. It is a zone of non-judgment and non-hierarchy that I think I’m actually able to bring. Because when I meet these folks, I genuinely feel that I’m knowing them for the first time, even though I’ve seen them many times. So it’s like, oh, okay, I’m knowing you from scratch, and I don’t know anything about your past, and we have fantastic interactions. And it’s sort of this freshness quality, this whole “you’re meeting someone new for the first time” feeling.

That is the most conducive to a meditative state that feels the most calm and least agitating. Because as many of you know, oftentimes when the mind is agitated, it’s because it is attacking itself in a really weird way. We’re judging ourselves, we’re judging what’s happening, and that causes disturbances, which makes it harder to be peaceful. And by providing this temporary shelter from this state of judgment, that is really what I try to help folks with. Of course there’s some technique, right? But I think that fresh state is what is the key.

And I’ve noticed this in myself too, definitely. I’m always trying to tune up my own practice, right? For the past, gosh, maybe even half a year or seven months, correlated with an entirely new job, I felt this really strong judgment going on and a really strong stress. I think I documented it through this newsletter. But I think I’m starting to come out of it, or cycle into the next phase, where I’m like, okay, I can see what’s happening is I no longer was really honoring my intention. By that I mean I was no longer recognizing what I do all this for. Because I’m trying to do my best all the time, blah, blah, blah. And remembering to honor that I’m doing that, and to be grateful to myself that I’m doing that, helps settle my mind a lot.

And I feel like, as I’m recording this, maybe you can’t even tell from my voice, I’m a lot calmer. Because, again, with a lot of coaching and a lot of support from friends, I’m like, oh, okay, right. Yes, of course. You have good intentions, and you’re trying your best, which is not apparent to me at all times. And just remembering that really helped me a lot to reset and to be in a better state of mind.

I think it’s also almost like a gentle cushion, right? Before, it was almost like I was bone on bone, like, oh, if something goes wrong, it’s entirely my fault and I need to get myself out of this jam. How did I get into this? Another jam? Yet again. And it’s remembering that, oh, right, I can only do so much, and if I accomplish three things, then yes, ten things are going wrong, but it’s because I’m trying to do these three things, not because I’m not trying my best, you know? So I feel like that’s what I’ve been trying to hone in on.

Of course, I have a wonderful coworker who listens to me right now, and we often comfort each other, and I have to tell her, hey, remember, I’m telling you all these comforting things because I’m not going to remember them myself later on. It’s almost like I’m passing on a memory for her to help me remember when I forget. So I feel like that’s almost like this newsletter too. Like, oh, remember when I felt calmer? I forgot. And I feel like we always do this for each other, especially if you’re listening to this. I know you probably have done this for me and vice versa.

So, yeah, that’s pretty much my reflection for today. I would love to be able to hang on tight to this state of being I feel right now. Of course, the more you hang on tight, the more it’s like that Looney Tunes thing, where there’s a little girl who squeezes the shit out of Bugs Bunny. Or in Tiny Toons, Bugs and Babs, the little rabbits. Sometimes it’s like that when we try to hold on to things. So I’ll have to let it go. But just a little breadcrumb to remember that, yeah, the key is to remember one’s intention, which is incorruptible in some ways, untouchable by what’s happening in the world.

All right, I gotta go. My burrito is ready.

But first, the jail. My insight this week has to do with just how much variety there is in how people respond to the guided meditations I’ve been offering. It reminds me of that story — probably an urban legend, possibly completely made up — about a kingdom where everyone had to eat with absurdly long-handled spoons. The handles were too long to get food into their own mouths, so everyone was struggling, until they discovered it was a lot easier to feed each other instead.

That’s how guided meditation often feels to me. When I’m the one guiding, I sometimes think, huh, other people seem to be getting a lot out of what I’m doing — more than I can feed myself with it. Which is a very funny thing to notice.

And I want to be honest: this is definitely not true across the board. Some people participate but seem mostly confused by the whole experience. Which is totally okay. Some of that is surely my skill level in running the class right now. I’m starting to be more okay with that. I used to think, oh no, if everyone isn’t having exactly the same positive experience, I must be doing something wrong. Ironically, that’s its own form of attachment — wanting a certain outcome. So I’m practicing letting that go, and trying to apply it to the rest of my life too.

Speaking of which. I was talking to a friend recently about my current job situation, and how I’m always trying to make sure things aren’t completely disastrous, even though many things are outside my control. But here’s the thing: historically, I’ve never been fired for performance. The one time I was laid off, I wasn’t underperforming; the company restructured, and that was that. My fear is never quite what I think it is. I spent so long worried about “am I getting a job or not?” and now the worry has flipped into “oh no, I have a job and it’s very time-consuming.” My fears and worries keep ending up either irrelevant or the exact opposite of what actually happens.

I’m wondering if this is true for you, reading this. Does what you worry about often turn out to be irrelevant — or does the opposite thing happen entirely?

Maybe seeing this play out over and over, enough repetitions with age, has helped me finally start to believe it. Unpredictability isn’t a bug in this whole life-programming situation; it’s literally one of the Buddhist tenets. It’s part of the program. And it’s so hard to accept, because the natural tendency is to want more control, and the reality of how little control there is feels paradigm-breaking. Unfathomable, honestly.

Of course, if things were truly random, we wouldn’t bother doing anything at all, and that’s clearly not the case either. At least in Buddhist practice, there’s a training component — like going to the gym, except the gym is your mind. There’d be no point in training if nothing were improvable by what we do. I think it’s the input side — the sheer unpredictability of what happens to us — that gets us into these tricky situations.

One thing I did for this visit: I expanded the handout I give to attendees. There’s still so much that can be improved, and I always wonder, am I including the right pieces? I’ve even added some Bible quotes, because for some folks that’s what’s most relevant. If you come from a Christian tradition, meditating on scripture you love is completely valid — teachers like Thomas Keating built a whole contemplative practice around meditation on God’s word. So the handout keeps evolving. I’ll try to attach a copy in case it’s of interest.

Now, Norway. Here’s the unusual part: on this expedition, I didn’t work on anything. Obviously no day job, but I also didn’t touch any of my projects, which is very unusual for me. And it was a genuinely good experience to feel the absence of active projects — to be truly in the moment for most of it.

It also gave me a healthier relationship with my projects. I think I was doing a lot of things out of FOMO before — “I really need to figure things out, blah blah blah.” This stretch of not working on anything helped me see that there’s a lot of genuine joy I get from making things. (My work team gave me a 3D printer, and I’ve been obsessed. Making things out of plastic! It brings me so much joy.)

And while I was taking in the beauty of Norway, I noticed I’d get a separate kind of joy if I could process what I was seeing — through artwork, through some way of squeezing more juice out of the experience. Because honestly, my memory is a sieve. Experiences just seem to slip through, fast, and it feels almost unmooring sometimes — to have things come and go like that. I relish an experience more when I can add a little creativity to it, some tactile way of holding it, making something out of it. So that’s what I felt on this trip: I’d like to do a bit more with my experiences. Of course, as usual, my creative ambitions don’t necessarily match the available time and energy. But I’d like to.

So those are the things swirling in my head right now. In terms of life: I feel very sane, and very supported by my friends. And sorry if I still owe you a reply — I had ambitions of writing back to all the kind friends who wrote to me during the trip, and for better or for worse, that didn’t happen. See above, re: not working on anything.

I look forward to reconnecting soon, probably after I rejuvenate from all the jet lag. Take care for now.

Here’s a transcript of my voice memo to you! You can also listen to it.

Hello! It’s so funny — every time after I volunteer at the jail, where I talk about meditation and mindfulness for two hours, I usually get really mad, because the freeway entrance near the jail is always closed for some reason. I end up finding very convoluted ways to get back on, and I’m like, gee, what happened to all that mindfulness? So much for that. I always make fun of myself for how quickly I descend from peacefulness into freeway frustration.

Today’s sessions were fantastic, and really well attended, which was interesting. Attendance can vary anywhere from a minimum of two up to twelve or so — which is quite a bit, because the room isn’t even that big — but today it was closer to six to eight people per session.

I always try to adapt the class to the energy in the room. When there are a lot of people, it gets a bit tricky, because people want to interact with each other — which is totally understandable, especially for folks who aren’t given a lot of contact with other human beings. The class is really an excuse for everyone to get out and have some human contact. So I try to leave room for that. I allow some cross-talk, because I feel like it’s often too much to expect people to drop straight into silence.

(Oh — is this ramp also closed? I might be hitting another closed ramp. Who knows if I’m ever getting home at this point. Now we’re all making very dubious U-turns. Wait, are we all going in a circle? Hello, everybody. You’d think I’d know by now that this entrance is always closed, but clearly none of us have learned.)

Anyway. I didn’t actually want to talk too much about the jail work today, because I wanted to make this a public recording, and what I really wanted to share is what I’ve been dealing with internally.

I’ve been very, very busy with my day job — really pushing myself. And it’s funny, maybe this is a disturbing analogy, but you know those cartoon thermometers where the temperature gets so high that the mercury shoots past the top and explodes? I feel a little like that. My current work situation is so ridiculously over the top that maybe I’ve actually overcome my work anxieties, because I’m in a permanent Kobayashi Maru. I could prepare for everything I think might go wrong, and the thing that actually happens is so unpredictable that I’m just like — wow, it is impossible for me to have any control over what’s happening.

Which, again, maybe is the lesson I’ve been having to learn. I don’t know.

So that’s what’s been happening — apologies if I’ve been ghosting everybody and not getting back to you. That’s really all I’ve been dealing with. I feel like I’m in this stage of adapting to it, but I do feel changed in some ways. My relationship to work-induced anxiety has evolved. Unfortunately I’m still working a lot of hours, because I want to get things in as good a place as I can before I travel soon. But this job has forced me to be really ruthless in prioritization.

The part I feel worst about is that I have to let people down constantly. In an ideal situation, I don’t like leaving people hanging — when people have requests, I always try to give the best customer service. But I’m now in a situation where I have to say no, or ignore some requests, because there are just so many, and I have to prioritize. Maybe that’s the lesson: learning to say no constantly, and accepting that I can’t address everyone’s needs anymore.

And — not that I was ever a perfectionist, I know this may shock some of you — I’m now in a place where I can no longer be anywhere near that. There are a lot of MVP situations, all the time, because speed is definitely more important than perfection. That’s something I’ve had to adapt to as well.

Then there’s risk management. I’m trying my best not to have things blow up, and hedging so that if things do blow up, there’s a backup plan. It’s almost like a forced mindfulness training, in a twisted way: there are a hundred things being managed at the same time, so I really can only do one at a time — and hope I picked the correct one for the day.

I sometimes wonder if the universe serves you exactly what you need in order to learn a lesson. Consulting my monastic teachers, you get answers at two extremes. One direction is: “Ha ha — you think the universe is about you? How silly to take it so personally.” The other direction is: yes, there’s some element of karma, we reap the seeds we sow, and so there’s some element of having to address the situations that — always, coincidentally — are the ones we least like to deal with.

So that’s my learning. And as you can see, if I post this, that means I did let it go — even though I did not love that I rambled about the freeway for the first five minutes, which may not be very riveting. I may just release this recording anyway, because it’s better to say hi than to say nothing at all.

So let me know: do you feel like life is constantly serving you exactly the most annoying or terrible thing, all the time? Do you feel like the universe is random? Or is it perception bias? Because I could view these situations as exactly the opposite: how wonderful that the universe is serving up exactly what I need, all the time, so I can learn. I’m trying to address my negativity bias these days, mostly because I’d just be sad all the time if I didn’t. This current life situation forces me to constantly examine the way I perceive things — because if I already know how this way feels, why not try a different way?

(And hooray — I’m on the freeway, finally. None of us could get on; it was closed in both directions. Very bizarre. A 30-minute drive home has turned into a 45-minute journey. But it’s okay. I’m glad I got to record this with you.)

Lastly — I think I said this last year, but here we go again — I’ve been contemplating how tired my mind is. And you’ll hate it when I say I’m tired; it’s one of her least favorite things to hear from me. Not because she’s cruel, but because she says I say it too much, and saying I’m tired makes me more tired. Which is totally true. But I also feel like maybe I’m tired of the way I think, you know? It’s a healthier kind of tired. More like: okay, I’m bored of being anxious now. This is getting too boring, so I’m going to try something else.

That’s also something that’s changed slightly within me. It’s not going to look different to most people — though hopefully Yuhong notices. It seems like I’m in a very similar situation to a few years ago, but I’m actually responding to it slightly differently than before. So I guess the only learning here is: oh, maybe it is the crucible, for everybody. Hooray!

Okay. Well, thanks for listening. I hope to see you in cyberspace.

Warm wishes,

Christin

This week sadly the jail was in lockdown so I didn’t manage to go in. So instead, in this little voice memo for you I share the ways in which I attempt to “scale” my volunteering efforts outside of direct jail work, e.g. trying to get Gil Fronsdal’s books available to incarcerated individuals, and offering to onboard chaplaincy students with my mentor.

I really have to put “scalable” in huge air quotes here because maybe the correct word is really “operationalizing” or “diversifying”—-just wanting to share all the ways in which “helping the world” really comes down to paperwork and pounding the pavement and following up. And so many of you are good at that!

Please also let me know how this voice memo format goes for you—-do you like it, do you prefer seeing my face, or prefer seeing words typed out? Let me know!

Warm Wishes,

Christin

Experimenting with a voice memo reflection recorded after serving meditation classes in the jail! I hope this can be a useful record for myself and for those of you interested in what it’s…

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Let’s talk about money.

I am terrible at charging for my offerings, and fantastic at getting my friends to do it.

In fact, let me first tell you about my friend . She has been teaching me qigong for the past month and relieving so much tension I’ve been holding within, as well as helping me give relief to those who are incarcerated. I’ve been able to take some of her routines and share them with incarcerated individuals in the San Mateo jail system. Participants report a sense of joy and lightness, and I rejoice with them too as I benefit from Alex’s teachings.

She has even made it easy to learn through these offerings, which I’m so psyched to share with you:

• Easy Embodiment Qigong Routine - $12
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• Feel Good with Qigong Starter Pack - $47 (1:1 session AND the video!)
  https://gumroad.com/a/1050532963/wjwqha

Full disclosure: I get 30% commission!

Alex is a shining example of sharing right livelihood and her work cares for herself and others. Yet she was hesitant to charge for her work at first. I highly nagged encouraged her until she did and I’m so proud!

In fact, if you are reading this newsletter, you are more than likely someone who is more on the hesitant-to-charge side because I tend to be friends with people like that.

Before I point more fingers, this is something I am working on myself!

You can become a patron of my chaplaincy work/meditation classes in the San Mateo jail system by clicking the button below ($13.50/month or $135/year.)

Become Christin's Patron

Your support helps me embark on a journey towards sustainable livelihood through chaplaincy work / meditation classes. I’ll continue to expand my offerings and this is a start, but it’s the purest offering I’m providing to the world right now to participants who cannot afford it and wouldn’t have access otherwise. Your patronage helps me keep it going!

Relatedly, I’m also happy to report that I will be a student of Gil Fronsdal and Ines Freedman in the dharma leaders training program at insight meditation center. This has been my dream come true since I was in my twenties, and now that I’m turning double that age, I’m glad that my early aspiration is answered. This training program will also ensure that I can be be a more helpful meditation teacher in the jail system.

So…what are you doing for free that you can ostensibly charge money for to make it a sustainable offering?

Warm Wishes,

Christin

I hope this missive finds you resilient among the changes of the world, especially if you are a member of a disenfranchised group affected by the shifts in power dynamics. I’ve been taking a class and mentoring students for another one at the Insight Meditation Center, where the breakout rooms inevitably circled back to our collective witness of suffering, how to support ourselves & each other. Likewise, it would be remiss of me to not begin the email to you by ignoring the Elephant In the Room, and offer my calendar to you if you would like to chat or simply sit together in camaraderie (or in collision!)

Still, life goes on and there remains much to be grateful for. As someone who habitually looks forward to the future, I must admit this is a practice that doesn’t come easily to me. Even as I flip through my electronic calendar with records of appointments, I wish I can do a better job conveying the friendships, excitement, and the *stuff of life* that made up these experiential highlights.

April-May:

• ‘s wedding (went with ), spent time with and Sam (Humankind Candles) who kindly hosted

• Went to NYC for Farcon, spent time with and Hsiao-Chi who kindly hosted, visited Empty Cloud Monastery with Sam as well

May-June:

• Attended Edge Esmeralda with for most of the month, got to hang out with Brian (Chao’s long time friend) and Eric (Brian’s college buddy) the whole time too. Spoke twice at the event about Reframe and developed Reframe Daily, a weekday digest of latest health discoveries that aren’t surfaced in regular news.

June-July:

• Camped in the Sierras with Yuhong

• Write of Passage alumni meetup, chatted with , , , Maile who needs to update her domain or something so I’m stuck linking her linkedin…

August-September:

• Attended a weeklong silent retreat with teachers Ines Freedman and Francisco Gable at the Insight Retreat Center

• Visited Iceland and the UK, kindly hosted by and Tobin in Bristol

Of course, these are experiences that are easier to share via photos and a few quick notes. I’m most grateful to those who continue to support me through challenges and struggles, the “stuff of life” that makes up the rest. When so kindly asked how I’ve been… what can I say? Continue to be blessed with connections made through the magic of the Internet, a place I hold so dear yet know it is changing. I grieve the loss yet know it makes way for the new unknown.

What have been your seasonal highlights since we last connected?

Warm Wishes,

Christin

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Remastering Music

Listen to this, with headphones if you have them. It’s the remastered version of Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.

Hear the crispness, the punchiness, the dynamic separation.

It’s the same song, just remastered for modern sensibilities—the way our modern speakers and headphones sound, suited to current trends / the zeitgeist.

Remastering Content

Now, imagine that for the content you release online.

It’s the same themes, just remastered for the way people consume media, suited to current trends / the zeitgeist.

In the past few years, I’ve been lucky to be able to share my writing and videos with all of you, and even some course and community offerings like Kind Camp. They all touched on themes around writing, spiritual/ethical practice, and friendship.

The OK Banger Show is the remastered version of all of my content so far, adapted to a live stream and shorts format to match the zeitgeist. Each episode features a single word theme, and my co-host and I feature banger content on the internet before diving into the word (disguised virtue) and what it means for us.

We share vulnerable, rarely-discussed stories from our lives. It’s a dangerous and exciting dance. We get to know each other so well that Cameron catches me off guard on these live podcasts, along with kind viewers who throw us fun curveballs.

Here’s an example convo from the end of our latest episode on “play.”

Cameron: What are your favorite games growing up?

Christin: The Sims! There’s nothing more satisfying than going from nothing to something, 0 to 1

Cameron: Is this because you felt like you had to do that by yourself growing up?

Christin: *DAGGER TO THE CHEST* 💀💀💀💀💀

Luckily, he fumbled and accidentally pressed the end stream button instead of our outro music, because I was left dumbstruck. (Did I mention this is a comedic podcast? A show for serious creators who don’t take themselves too seriously?)

This is why I continue to love content creation. I love how it doesn’t get easier. I love how I get to confront my raw growth edges over and over again, with friends who get me. That’s what we hope to offer to fellow creators: a friendly space to chat about creator strategy and tactics while making fun of them at the same time.

We go live every Tuesday and Thursday at 8AM PT / 11AM ET / 3PM UTC, and the YouTube channel contains full recordings / RSS feed for those who can’t make it live and want to hear us joke over dishes or laundry. Appreciate you subscribing and checking us out! There’s also shorts if you want to sample our madness.

For me, I have found great satisfaction with remastering my content through delivering the same messages in new formats, especially with comedy, my favorite art form. I wonder if this resonates with you (if you are a content creator) as something to try out, especially if you have been doing it for a hot minute?

Remastering…Feelings??

Alright, the truth. I have whined numerous times to about how I wish I can have the wherewithal to go back to all my writing and organize it, curate it…write a new book maybe?! But it was something I always “wish I had time to do” but never executed.

I see now that the desire to remaster…isn’t really about improving the content per se. It’s about whether what I put out is true to who I am, in that particular moment. And when that gets out of sync as time goes by, it feels uncomfortable. But that only meant I felt like I was always playing catch up with myself, forever slightly behind and hurting for it.

I searched the internet and listened to live versions of Bohemian Rhapsody, where Freddie Mercury sang his heart out over the years in LiveAid, Budapest. Each performance slightly different, yet more and more him. That’s what I see as the process we undergo as creators—remastering the content, and remastering our feelings and self-perception along the way.

Warm Wishes,

Christin

P.S. I had briefly switched to using convertkit and you may have missed my previous newsletter as a result (went to spam because of domain delivery issues, which is totally on me!) Here it is archived if you would like to catch up.

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we have received strong testimonials, sponsorships, and grant funding after just 7 episodes in less than a month.

it's the culminated expression of all my work so far, with flavors of neuroscience, chaplaincy, and the craft of content creation.

cameron armstrong has been a dear friend for the past year. we met on farcaster, where we obsess over the craft of creating "bangers."

he also endlessly fascinates me as a former military leadership instructor, harvard business school graduate, founder of an e-commerce startup ($120M exit after 2 years) and is now building seemore.tv to help creators make more money.

so between the two of us, we got a lot to yap about. watch for yourself!

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what others can't see, that you have witnessed: the number of projects i've started to get here.

the list in the beginning of this email--that's what it took. thank you for being there for me as I stumbled forward.

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creator systems update

since we've last connected, i've gained 59K followers on a new social platform called farcaster.

so i'm eager to share new ways i've evolved my content systems to resonate with a larger number of connections than ever before.

i'll be sharing how i've kept writing and making content enjoyably this whole time, while streamlining my workflow.

e.g. sending email thru convertkit allows me to eliminate clutter from substack's email format, making the newsletter an easier read.

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warm wishes,

christin

I hope you’ve been well! There’s been a lot of fun and exciting things going on in this little corner of the universe. It’s been strange because most of my “web presence” has shifted to a different part of the internet…specifically, in the rapidly growing (now unicorn?) status social network called Farcaster.

So I’ve been busier than ever doing creator stuff (writing, co-hosting a weekly as-of-today-award-winning sponsored podcast, hosting an online chapel, being a contestant on a reality show…) but many of you may not even see it because it’s in a different cozy corner on the internet!

Exhibits

the BeavChris and BArt-Head Show: a Podcast for the Farcaster Middle Class: co-hosted with Art Lu: with regular viewer support, ad-read sponsorships, and usually ~5 good friends in the live stream

And today I found out we won an retroactive funding award:

https://warpcast.com/christin/0xcafc3962

Said Survivor-like reality show:

https://warpcast.com/~/channel/castout

(oh and I’m a local Drake meme format...)

https://warpcast.com/sdv.eth/0x1a023489

So what?

The point of this newsletter isn’t “look what *I* have been up to” (in fact, I felt self-conscious constructing the section above…) but to showcase a new playground with fantastic support for creativity, art, and culture. It’s a rare space in the creator economy where there is room to flourish, while some existing tools (looking at you, Twitter) flounder.

As my friend compiled poignantly:

https://adrienneshulman.medium.com/the-power-of-scenius-farcaster-and-the-collective-genius-of-communities-244f018a8767

An Invitation

• The “onchain” world like Farcaster is the equivalent of “early Twitter/YouTube etc.”—the ecosystem is new enough where there is still a cozy sense of community, it’s easier to make friends who have the same creative ambitions, and it’s easier to distribute with higher signal-to-noise ratios.

• To me, this is where ‘s essay “Beware of Chasing Prestige” applies as well—since Farcaster is still an early social network, I usually get quizzical looks when I mention where I spend my time online. But…

  https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1531397520408059904

  

• The onchain world is underpriced quality right now. This world may not be for you at all, and I totally get it—it’s high friction to switch to another social network, meet new people, etc. However, if getting traction is challenging for you in your current online space, I highly encourage you to explore where there might be more appreciate for your creativity and craft.

Warm Wishes,

Christin

P.S. I’m also tired of Substack’s dark patterns (I swear I am *not* inserting all these calls for paid tiers or emailing you about it!) and I’m thinking about moving to Paragraph as the newsletter platform provider. What do you think?

It’s been a while! :) Here’s what I’ve been up to, buried in a meandering encantation of this year’s mystical Word.

Backstory: What is Choose One Word?

• Choose One Word is a self-guided annual ritual taught by the Dr. Jason Fox. Dr. Fox is a metamodern wizard on a quest to create a world more curious and kind (with a PhD in motivational sciences.) The premise of the program is simple--choose one word that will guide behaviors, decisions, and goals for the year (or however long you wish.)

• Unlike most goal-setting programs, the witty Dr. Fox recommends against choosing certain types of words like happiness! Success! Etc., This is because it frees oneself from judging against what seems to be an objective metric at first glance, but is more-often-than-not an arbitrary one. (What is happiness? Success?) My word in 2019, which I had chosen before learning about the program, was "mastery." It served its purpose in that I spent the year honing 5 areas of my life (for which I will provide a retrospective) but there was a Sisyphean facet to the word that made it less useful.

• Instead, active, aspect, or archetypal words are preferred because they carry less of an inherent measuring-stick quality. In short, the chosen word is a beacon of light that guides along pathways to future relevance.

Why does Dr. Fox recommend heralding one's word on a page like this?

In his words,

"In a nutshell: cultivated dissonance.

The Ritual of Becoming is an act of manifesting*—of ‘telling the truth in advance’, so that you might live into it, make believe, and become it.

Rational friends: don’t be dissuaded by my employment of magical realism. I have not descended into irrationality—merely sidestepped into para-rationality. Join in the programme and you’ll see. Sound reasonableness cloaked in glamour, ‘pon my Word.

Thus, after deep work in Reflecting, Introspecting and Projecting (RIP)* upon ‘who you are’ and ‘who you might be’—and after finding the most exquisite and apt Word to serve you in the next chapter of your unfurling story—you then must pave the way for Actualisation. This is the phase in which you begin to adopt and an integrate new Principles, Patterns and Projects in actuality.

Yes, this is like an elegy for your past self—so that parts of you might die and rest in peace, so that new elements of ‘selfness’ might emerge.

Your ‘/word page’ helps you do this. It’s a living space for you to enshrine the insights from your Quest to find a Word for the year."

So without further ado...

2024 is The Year of the CozyGoober for me. 🥜

For me, the word “cozy” evokes:

• making room to sense the soma and feel discomfort to its fullest extent, and comfort to its fullest extent

• intimacy with the home and its associated duties—taking care of loved ones’ well-being in all dimensions

• not over-extending myself and getting into a grindset mindset (beautifully expounded by my friend zencephalon here)

As Dogen, the patriarch of Soto Zen Buddhism says, zazen is the comfortable way, but it’s not comfortable in the usual way. When you can actually accept yourself completely in all situations, then you’re comfortable.

And why append the word “goober?”

• To me, goober is a silly word for a fool. It reminds me to take things lightly, and to enjoy the practice of cosmic or mundane humor.

• I like how a goober means a peanut 🥜 and there’s nothing more cozy than peeling some warm boiled peanuts in a paper bag. I also like how the nuts of the peanut are cozily encased in its shell.

Principles and Patterns

If the chosen word is the North Star, then principles are the surrounding constellations. Dr. Fox also recommended that behavioral patterns should be doable when motivation is waning.

1. Silly: discard the need for everything I put out to be wrought with meaning. Maybe something more meaningful would emerge, if I don’t force it to happen.

2. Small: avoid grindset mindset by setting up even smaller goals, and maybe don’t even meet them all the way.

3. Still: coziness comes from not needing to be everything, everywhere, all at once. Treat every moment as “good enough.”

Projects

Although I’m heralding the Word now, I’ve been chipping away at projects that represent the CozyGoober:

Stand up comedy at a local open mic, supported by the Gift Your Gift community

• https://warpcast.com/christin/0x3a648a81 - a bit about the Bay Area Virus causing insidious productivity

• https://warpcast.com/christin/0x21e5c602 - an homage to George Carlin’s Stuff

The BeavChris and BArt-Head Show (http://bcbhshow.com/) a video podcast about the Farcaster middle class

Hosting https://warpcast.com/~/channel/spirituality a channel for interfaith sharing

All of these projects above have been supported by the Farcaster community, a social platform where I have been the most active: https://warpcast.com/christin (it’s like early Twitter / Reddit, with lots of cool people open to new ideas!)

Enclothed Cognition

Dr. Fox encouraged giving ourselves symbolic reminders of our chosen word.

• Website: with guidance I’ve updated my website (https://christinchong.com to be the cozy destination that showcases different facets of my preoccupation. More to come on this one!

• Emoji: the 🥜 shall serve well for this year.

• Sigil: my friend Anansi drew a sigil that represented the “wiggly goober” on the inside of me. I am keeping this image private for now, as it feels deeply intimate to my being and was probably the most significant spiritual work of this year for me. Please reach out to him if you’d like an incredible trip into your true state and purpose though!

How you can help

• Enjoy the silliness from me this year 😊 perhaps this is my new way of sharing the dharma…

• Comment some 🥜🥜🥜 down below if you read this bullet point

What is your chosen word?

• I hope this page led to inquisitiveness about a word of your own. (Or bafflement--a pre-requisite to investigation!)

• If you are interested, here is an affiliate link to the Choose One Word program.

• The program is flexible and self-directed, and can take anywhere from 3 mins/3 hours/3 weeks/3 months/as long as you want. Just the chapter on "hidden commitments" is well worth the price alone. If concepts such as "infinite games," "seminal invocations," and "why personal branding can be yucky" are intriguing, then Dr. Fox is a fine companion for exploring a ritual of becoming.

Warm Wishes,

Christin

I’m taking the Path of Fearlessness course at Insight Meditation Center and there is writing homework :) so I thought I’ll share a snippet…

Write a 500-word essay on the story of how your life led you to Buddhism and Buddhist practice. What were the significant people, events, experiences, learnings, and influences that shaped you in such a way that you became interested in Buddhism? 

I grew up in Asian countries where Buddhism is featured prominently, though my family was mostly Christian and much of the practices were seen as folklore. Though one of my early memories is watching a Buddhist monk meditate on television, and me imitating the monk because it felt like a right thing to do…I also recall building a little cave next to my parent’s bed out of blankets and pillows, finding it a place of solace illuminated by red LEDs from a button badge…

My earliest “official” exposure to Buddhism was through a world religion class I took in college. Our teacher was a fun, boisterous man who also taught the drama class. I remember him telling us stories that made us belly laugh. Like how maybe, in the future, archeologists would find these temples called “AT-Ms”! Future historians would hypothesize that we must have worshiped the machines, and ritually smoked tobacco based on the cigarette butts littered nearby. Even as he made light of our human tendencies to make assumptions about religions we don’t understand like this, he made sure that we understood the tenets of major world religions. 

I remember that our main course project was to focus on one religion, and I ended up getting assigned Buddhism with my friends. We gathered Buddhist statues, electronic boxes that played amitabha adfinitum… but it lacked an intellectual touch. My friend had somehow obtained this academic textbook on Buddhism, so we placed it in our booth quickly, having nary a time to flip through its contents.

When our teacher came over to examine our booth, we were eager to show off the book to him. Maybe it will impress him?

“Look at the foreword,” our teacher said as he held a fake-serious expression. His name and introduction was printed right there, as the editor of the textbook. Our teacher was Mr Vijaya, a well-respected leader in the Buddhist communities of Malaysia.

So my first formal introduction to Buddhism was one of spiritual ego blowing up in my face–a drive to people please, a failed attempt at looking smart, all with a dose of cosmic humor. This continues to be a theme as I proceed on the path…

After writing the essay, reflect on what it was like for you to write it. Did it provide a new perspective of your life? 

It felt good to share a story–it has always been challenging to share with folks the multidimensional, multifactorial origins of practice (of course, there are many more events that unfolded and are still unfolding!) But I really do want to share this story because it illustrates how important good, humorous teachers are to the path.

Warm Wishes,

Christin

P.S. When you’re ready, here are ways I can support you:

➞ Debug Your Meditation — This book helps you build a joyful meditation habit.

➞ 1:1 Chat — Do you have a question about Buddhist practice, creative entrepreneurship, or just want to catch up? Let’s do that!

asked: why do you forage for mushrooms in the wild?

"Over here! It's HUGE!" My wife Yuhong pointed to the forest floor, just a few feet away from the winding trail that took us through the Sierra Nevada mountains. A tan dinner plate-sized dome poked through the dirt, looking unnaturally smooth and clean among the forest debris. It was the telltale sign of a Boletus grand edulus, or the California King Bolete, or the Porcini--many names for the most prized fungus in this part of the world. They are sold for US$50 a pound in bougie shops, if they are even in season.

Back at home and bent over the kitchen sink, I cleaned our bounty. It took hours to peel off the skin of the slippery caps, remove the spongy undercaps, and cut away the worm-eaten parts. Yuhong and I cherished our kitchen time together, as we caught up on our respective conversations with our friends during the trip. "Oh she told you this...?" "Yeah we gossiped about..." We giggled over inside jokes. Soon the processed piles became cream of mushroom soup, pizza, pasta.

The foraged fungi weren't enough to make full-on meals on their own, and these treasures are found too infrequently to be part of our regular diet. And the chances of encountering a porcini in the wild are slim; and we have spent countless hours driving and hiking, only to come home empty handed. So why bother?

I can tell you that it's fulfilling to have an alternative to the industrialized food systems, to take out the middle men, to take a break from capitalistic paradigms where everything comes down to money. But it's a drop in the bucket, and Amazon Fresh orders still appear at my door. (In fact, I "cheated" with the mushroom pizza--I had placed the ghee-fried slices on top of Digiorno's croissant crust with four cheese.) It’s also fun to show our friends what nature can provide, especially with fellow foragers who understand the amount of work involved.

But a non-foraging friend expressed alarm–he warned us of mushroom poisoning. “You don’t want to need a liver AND a kidney transplant!” We tell him we take caution to prevent our premature demise–lots of time spent researching the poisonous look-alikes. For boletes, we make sure the cap undersides are spongy and not gilled, and definitely no red undersides (that’s a Satan’s bolete–not fatal, but will get us very sick.)

Yes, nature can wreck us with her unpredictable weather patterns, wildfires, and armada of mosquitoes. Even the friend who warned us about needing both liver and kidney transplants takes calculated risks while flyfishing, traversing rivers in waders with water chest-high to feel the exciting tug of a hooked steelhead trout.

But for me, the risks involved in foraging help me face my culturally-ingrained fear of nature itself. As someone who grew up indoors in air-conditioned malls and houses in Asia, nature was something taught to be shunned, controlled, and kept apart. Only the poor live with the dirt and the mosquitoes—and the rest of us, we are kept “safe” and “clean,” and exiled from the natural world.

Therefore, foraging is a way for me to reclaim my connection to nature–to be less afraid of what is “out there” when what is “out there” is the same as what is “in here.” When I get to eat what I find in the woods, it feels intimate–like I am taking my place in nature, as nature.

Colophon

The title / subject line of this piece is inspired by Taking Our Places: The Buddhist Path to Truly Growing Up by Norman Fischer. It is an excellent read on the meaning of spiritual “adulting” from the Soto Zen tradition.

A huge thank you to: and . They gave fantastic feedback, especially towards restructuring the second half of the essay when I went into weird third-person mode and became too distant from the subject matter. Sandra also had to put up with excessive alliteration in the first draft, and playfully reminded me to publish this essay over the past several months.

A huge thank you tofor holding space and encouraging me to finally ship this piece!

0. How I got sick and got better

It’s been a while! I had traveled back home to Malaysia in November after a wonderful trip in Japan with , and found myself in the midst of a crisis. My dad’s health seems to have taken a tremendous dip and he seems to be having dementia, angry at everyone. I grew up thinking most of his anger is justified—to be treated like an infant when you are 85 years old will make anyone mad. Still, we all did the best we could, and I found myself getting along with my brother in a new way. There’s only the two of us siblings, after all.

When I got home, I thought I was just having a hard time with jet lag. But even after a few weeks, I found myself still sleeping 15 hours a day, barely mustering up the energy to appear chipper on a zoom call or a quick tweet/cast.

I was concerned—was I depressed? Understandably the whole family situation is quite upsetting and I have had clinical depression in the past that manifested in low energy. But I didn’t feel like my mood was affected. If anything, my mood was great. I just couldn’t get my body to move!

After some detective work digging through scientific research data, I had put this hypothesis together:

In Malaysia → diet with low B12 (my family tends not to eat a lot of beef, and Malaysian cooking does use meat but not in the insane amounts that we use in the US) → gastritis issues a while back damaged stomach lining → B12 absorption in the stomach requires Intrinsic Factor, a glycoprotein found on stomach lining → B12 can be absorbed sublingually (under the tongue) which does not require Intrinsic Factor

In desperation, I whipped out my phone and found a B12 sublingual spray from Sprouts through Instacart.

Because we live in a fantastic modern society, the spray arrived in 30 min.

I sprayed it, and instantly, it felt like someone PLUGGED IN MY POWER CORD. I raved about this to on our scheduled zoom in a maniacal state.

Here's an important nuance missed by most advice about B12 intake: for folks with GI conditions like me, B12 is NOT absorbed well when ingested in pill form or from dietary intake (e.g. red meat.)

The sublingual (under the tongue) pathway is the key here: there are blood vessels under our tongue that allows direct bloodstream absorption.

This was a few weeks ago and I’ve since added a few more supplements to my arsenal, and together they seem to support a level of energy closer to what I had, though recovering from B12 deficiency takes time (closer to a year!) My scientist- and chaplaincy-trained mind introduced questions too, like:

• Are we really sure this is what happened? To prove my hypothesis, I should test for Intrinsic Factor antibodies, B12 metabolites, etc. (Thanks to our fave functional medicine expert for putting up with my WhatsApp messages!) But the tricky thing is—I have already started restoring my B12 levels, so the data may not be clear!

• In light of all the health messages we are bombarded with, it is so hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. I often reference health influencer podcasts, dig a little, and find that the data do not support their conclusions. What can I do to help others come up with a heuristic that works for the average person?

• Spiritual practice relies on a foundation of reasonably good health, yet awakening does not prevent ill health. The OG Buddha realized that he couldn’t starve himself to enlightenment and ate the rice and milk porridge from Sujata. He had backaches as he aged (comparing his body to an old cart held together by straps.) Yet he asked for back massages from his disciples, and was able to relieve himself of pain by entering jhana (absorptive meditation.) How can we care for our worldly vessel without egotistically trying to not die?

With this experience, I’m seeking to re-integrate my skillset in the biotech industry and share my thoughts on physical health within the context of these phrases: healthspan within reason, understated and ordinary aliveness, experimental within accessible context windows. The last one means openness to products with clarity on their efficacy to safety profile trade off, and exploring aging phenomena that are not as prominent in the zeitgeist. More on this, soon!

1. Social post highlights

https://twitter.com/Christintweets/status/1743128909523325302

2. Recommend-a-Friend

writes a newsletter called Creator 3x3 where he talks about the HOW of being a sustainable content creator, using his military strategy expertise to analyze the creator economy (though he would clarify that he is NOT a Jocko type. ;)) He created seemore.tv, a linktree alternative, so that it’s easier for creators to feature their offerings without having to constantly update their rotation. I’ve been using seemore.tv and like how it highlights my Substack posts without me having to lift a finger!

Cameron’s goal is to help creators “cross the chasm,” that awkward sophomoric phase when we have been doing it for a while and need a dose of strategy and motivation. He was there for me as I struggled through my health issues and worried about my creator hiatus. Check out his stuff and see if it helps you!

3. Resurfacing

I un-paywalled this newsletter edition, a crowd favorite according to Substack.

Warm Wishes,

Christin

P.S. When you’re ready, here are ways I can support you:

➞ Debug Your Meditation — This book helps you build a joyful meditation habit.

➞ 1:1 Chat — Do you have a question about Buddhist practice, creative entrepreneurship, or just want to catch up? Let’s do that!

My Fellow Americans Dear Friends,

I used to update a /now page like Derek Sivers, listing my routine under 5 categories: Cultivation, Connection, Creativity, Constitution, and Currency.

Such vain attempts at categorizing the messiness of being human must amuse the gods. But if somehow, I am making progress across these 5 categories, then the train is chugging along, and all is right in the world.

This newsletter replaced the /now page, yet it is usually a canary in a coal mine. When it stops chirping, it means something is amiss. As I loaded up my Substack page, I found myself going wait, what? I haven’t published in over 2 months?! Yet, the train is chugging along, and all is right in the world.

So let me share what I’ve been up to by reviving the ol’ format for the State of the Union address.

Cultivation:

This category holds spiritual practice and matters of the heart. I’ve semi-joked that my spiritual “key performance indicators (KPIs)” are loving-kindness and letting go (here’s my video about the topic.) I had a discussion with my teacher Gil Fronsdal that confirmed positive signals on this front. (It’s always good to validate learnings with trusted teachers because it is easy to be led astray by our egos.) This has been the strangest thing—the subsequent categories are a lot messier, yet I am more at peace and settled.

In fact, so at peace that this newsletter fell by the way side! 😅 In disentangling my ego from accomplishments, I’ve taken to only doing 2-3 tasks per day, mostly towards building Human Intellect with . Perhaps this was a respite I needed and I do have renewed creative energy (discussed below), but I’m more certain than ever before about the benefits of practice.

Where I am spending my time:

Maggasekha, Clear Mountain Monastery and Buddhist Insights online communities, Wednesday half-day retreats at Insight Meditation Center. All of these places offer helpful videos, and the monastics in the first 3 places often answer questions about practice on livestream.

Connection:

In the past few months I had shifted my online presence to the Farcaster network, as an alternative to X/Twitter. I tried a few other places like Bluesky and Mastodon, but found that Farcaster has been the place that “clicked” the most. There is a particular magic to this place—the people are friendly and innovative (many are in web3), and I see delightful posts every time I check the platform. I’ve had Zooms, Telegram group chats, and IRL meetups with a number of mutuals.

In fact, some friends have helped me establish the world’s first onchain interfaith chaplaincy service! I’ve held a few sessions and it’s been a great way to connect with new folks.

Where I am spending my time:

Farcaster, Telegram, weekly-ish meetups with creator friends like the Sunday Crew and the Sounding Board, Rickshaw ( ‘s Discord)

Creativity:

I met through Farcaster. He has been a dear friend and advisor on the creator front.

As many of you fellow creators know, nothing makes you feel more naked than having someone audit your online presence. 🙀

When Cameron and I chatted over setting up my seemore.tv page, it became clear that…while I have created a lot of different types of content, there is an opportunity to make the audience journey more clear. (Seriously, take a look at https://seemore.tv/christin and see for yourself…)

Of course, this is a reflection for my need to integrate all I’ve learned in the past year of providing coaching services on writing, meditation, and early entrepreneurship.

Where I am spending my time: I am building a new self-paced offering similar to ’s course on Somatic Resonance. I’ve been extremely inspired by the way he structures his course content on Notion, where the student can choose from several ways of navigating through the materials depending on their natural way of learning.

Constitution:

I competed in powerlifting earlier this year and hit new personal records:

Bench Press: 52.5 kg / 115.7 lb

Back Squat: 112.5 kg / 248 lb

Dead Lift: 112.5 kg / 248 lb

Please watch this cool video montage that I totally paid extra for:

Where I am spending my time: Still training with the tactical conditioning program on weekdays at Fullgrip Barbell (except this month for traveling…and if you are coach Mark reading this, yes I miss days for “lame reasons” haha.)

Currency:

If you are wondering, “where’s the messiness Christin promised?” Well this is it—as Vicky and I have been working on Human Intellect, we have been pleased with the progress made so far (actual clients!) However, like all new startups, it’s very much two steps forward! One step back! Two steps forward! One step back!

Where I am spending my time: I’m traveling to Japan this month to work with Vicky in person, which we are very excited about. We currently Zoom once a week and send a lot of WhatsApp messages to each other. Most of my brain juices are spent trying to figure out the correct balance between what we want to offer vs what the corporate market perceives to be huge pain points.

So, what do you think? Isn’t it interesting how I began with such peace, and ended with such chaos? ;)

Warm Wishes,

Christin

P.S. Yuhong’s Life Hack For Stressful Times

My wife Yuhong taught me this trick for when we are feeling stressed out, especially from all the travel prep. (For example, today I realized I messed up on our hotel dates and had to make an emergency fix!)

The solution? A Xena war cry—AY AY AY AY AY! Extremely therapeutic.

Analog format inspired by :

Voiceover inspired by :

Warm Wishes,

Christin

How is your summer (or winter for the southern hemisphere folks, or monsoon for the tropical folks) going?

I took a break from publishing newsletters but I gotta warn y’all—it is VERY hard to jump back after a break. It feels like:

My excuse reason for not writing?

Introducing…the School of Human Intellect

• Some of you may have heard me lament about this in various forms over the past 2 years—as a creator who had a previous life in the corporate world, I felt there is a huge untapped market for creator energy in the corporate world. (I had called it the Writer’s Collective! Or some other name, and wished for “someone” to make it happen.)

• While the creator economy is growing, the corporate economy is humongous in comparison—and y’all can provide an unprecedented amount of gumption, creativity, and humanity.

• At the same time, I lamented to Vicky (yes I do lament a lot…) that while I love to write and create, the audience building hustle isn’t…something I actually enjoy. (Yes! I admit it!) Vicky has a silver-button-level audience on YouTube and has been thinking about how to share her audience with creator friends.

• Vicky and I had fun collaborating in our Articulation Sprint workshop a while back, and had been reflective listening to each other and with as part of Rik ()’s listening course.

• We thought that EVERYONE needs Rik’s listening course, especially those in the corporate world.

• We both have experience in corporate in-house roles and consulting, and have witnessed the huge market for corporate learning and development.

• I was done with chaplaincy school, and chaplains are found at academic institutions.

• So…with these ingredients combined, we present to you…

Visit the School of Human Intellect

What’s in it for you?

• In short, we aim to build a TED level educational brand for our creator and writer friends.

• The mission of the School of Human Intellect is to provide interactive, intellectually stimulating, and practical learning experiences to boost the irreplaceable essence of human intellect in light of AI.

• We want to help you become the next generation of corporate educators—not the boring, handwave-y courses that are status quo.

How can we do that?

• The first thing that we can collectively do, is…ok don’t cringe, be ourselves on LinkedIn.

• Yes, that place that we all avoid because it has our corporate colleagues and bosses.

• But strength in numbers: Vicky and I will be active and posting about Human Intellect.

• If enough creators and writers hang around, we can reach a completely new group of corporate readers, together.

Join us in making LinkedIn less cringe and more human? Connect with these accounts…

https://linkedin.com/company/humanintellect

https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinchong/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vicky-beeamp/

We will follow you back! 🙌 Also, if you are a part-time creator embedded in the corporate world, please let us know. We want to help you shine at work just as much as you do in the creator world.

Seeking Creative Community First? Join Da Vinci Café

While I work on the B2B side of the School of Human Intellect, and have been masterminding on what it takes to build a creative community.

What is the Da Vinci Café? 

​​It is a place for…

• ​​Practicing a method of creative, associative thinking, for the purpose of connecting dots in personally and collectively profound ways

• ​​Intellectual and creative exploration in a welcoming and inclusive environment

• ​​Collaborative exploration of each other's interests, tapping into collective wisdom and practicing the art of conversation

​​Future Cafés:

• ​​August 27 (Sun) 12noon ET 6PM CET / 12 midnight HKT

• ​​September 23 (Sat) 8AM ET
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Highly encourage you to check it out!

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What has Christin been up to? (Part 2) will be about the future of my personal writer’s journey—I’ve been thinking a lot about the implication of AI on our creative livelihood, and how I want to share my writing moving forward. (Preview: Open to all…humans only!)

Warm Wishes,

Christin