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In the Current ~ Returning Steadiness… #CurrentSteadiness #CollectiveStress #EmotionalWisdom #Stress #Boundaries Read On: https://tinyurl.com/StressSteadiness @zponderings @ZPonderings.bsky.social https://zpond.substack.com/ = SubStack https://linktr.ee/ChangeAndThrivalHood = Change and ThrivalHood https://pegaphinz.com = Byte Wise Thriving

🐾 Marvin — Companion Reflection “Marvin and the Moment It Became Real” Marvin didn’t say anything at first. He just watched. Things were still moving. People were still talking. Everything… carried on. But something had changed. He could feel it. “That’s the moment,” he said quietly. “Not when it starts… but when you realise it won’t stop.” He looked down at his tea. It had gone cold again. Marvin didn’t drink it this time. https://open.substack.com/pub/hybridmind42/p/an-easter-reflection-part-2-the-end?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac 🌿 #EasterReflection #Boundaries #Grief #Witness #HumanExperience

I was thinking about boundaries and LinkedIn. One day on LinkedIn I saw the same man on my feed twice, once he was complaining when people reject his devil's-advocate comments in their posts, because "you shouldn't be online unless you want to be interacted with" (and that is a very bad take, not far away from lengths of skirt), later that day he was upset that someone had given him a negative comment and he'd had to block them so he wouldn't get "bad comments" that tarnish his profile. That is an interesting interior world view to have. I've adopted a delete comment approach on LinkedIn. When I write about my professional opinions and insights on a professional platform, having some man twenty years my junior who didn't exist for many years yet before the year I started playing video games, I find engaging in bad faith "discourse" a completely meaningless exercise of wasting time, when ten out of ten times these tend to be thinly veiled attacks on my person. Which is not something I want a potential recruiter to read on my professional profile about my person. Deleting a comment is less drastic than blocking someone, and you don't need to have a whole conversation about it. Just delete and proceed with your life. Having boundaries doesn't make you a bad person. It actually gives you more space for yourself physically and mentally, and having that makes you more balanced and self-assured. Calmer. You don't need to take anything online that you wouldn't take on the street in your regular life. #boundaries #settingboundaries #linkedin

System Failures at Boundaries Across institutions, engineering, biology, and physics, failure is often blamed on weak signals or insufficient effort. This piece looks instead at the structural conditions that make correction possible — or impossible. Escalation often fails not because people don’t try hard enough, but because systems no longer admit the kind of change being attempted. https://open.substack.com/pub/hybridmind42/p/system-failures-at-boundaries?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac #HybridMind42 #SystemsThinking #ComplexSystems #Boundaries #FailureModes