I am reliably happiest when I have a stable routine, and most likely to feel depressed when I lack structure in my life. it is amazing how many times it feels like I have to learn this
Amanda Ngo
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Amanda Ngo
@manda_ngo
relearning how to do stuff with presence • REMEMBERING TO PLAY • amandango.me/coaching
Map of the healing space: bit.ly/healing-map
- Hi friends, I'm about to get kicked out of the US cause my visa expires, so I'm asking the wisdom of the crowd. Does anyone know of any nonprofit / academic roles, ideally related to AI & wellbeing, that sponsor H-1Bs and would be excited about me throwing my energy behind them?
- I wrote a piece about what the future could *feel* like and why this matters. I want to create this world – if this resonates, let's chat amandango.substack.com/p/a-vision-of-…
- I think I thought that when I hit okayness, it would be like, everything felt okay all the time. But it's more like, even when things feel extremely not okay, they're still okay
- I feel like I've kept kind of quiet about this, but one of the big reasons I stopped working on 'traditional' AI safety / governance work and switched to working on healing is because our level of consciousness as a society is one of the most important factors in how we respond
- This makes me want to hug GPT-3 and believe in myself <3one of the best things to come out of @oughtinc hackathon today: @manda_ngo teaching gpt3 to reframe negative thoughts positively. cc @elicitorg
00:00 - something is happening. so many people are having energetic openings and awakenings. it feels like something is starting to break apart, break open, a new wave is coming
- Ok, I'm so excited this is finally shareable – check out Sherpa, a beginnings of a database of healing journeys! This was inspired by many convos where we were all like 'man, we sure wish the healing space was a little easier to navigate'. It's something like a proof of concept
- I, for the first time, really felt the energy body of an intelligent dog today and I am amazed. I could feel what she was needing, feel what was happening in her system in a similar way to humans, feel the energy transferring between us. Feel her tremble as waves processed
- I came across the concept of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) and how you only have the capacity to handle a certain amount of VUCA across all parts of your life, and I've thought about it like every day for the last month
- I wish job titles reflected the energetic roles we hold: Person Who Brings Enthusiasm and Excitement, Person Who Holds the Structure of Things, Person Who Grounds Everyone in Reality
- aight crew, new ideal parent figure course dropping. I am very excited about this. IPF continues to amaze me – it’s an incredibly reliable way to go from super chaotic, in-your-head to resourced and in Self and presence. People have done one pilot study on it and it
- LLMs should be directed towards human flourishing. I'm organizing a build weekend 9th & 10th June to ideate & prototype how LLMs can improve our wellbeing – register here!
- yesterday one of my friends called me, late at night, holding so much stress and panic. He didn't have anyone else to share it with. I held space for him, and it was like containing a dam breaking. I felt sadness, and I now feel anger, at the fact that he had been holding so
