The Constraint Is Me
What it looks like to build a sustainable creative business when your own time is the bottleneck everything bends around.
Waiting to Be Given the Next Pose: Reclaiming Authority Over My Practice
The method saved my body and my attention. The power structure around it nearly cost me both. I could have written a post about it. I built a platform instead.
Performing the Practice vs. Reading It: Why Inheritance Isn’t Understanding
A student asked me why the closing sequence comes last, and I heard how much of what I knew was inheritance, not understanding. I could have written a post about it. Instead I built the map — 81 lessons, on a platform I own. The thing is the proof.
Ten Years of Practice, No Idea Why: Building the System I Couldn’t Find
For years I mistook obedience for depth. The day I started reading my practice as a system instead of a set of instructions — and started instrumenting it like one — everything I’d called discipline turned out to be drift.
MJH INC: Building a Personal Sovereign Internet
From chatrooms at thirteen to running a world in Ultima Online to building communities for companies — a life spent tending rooms online. Now I’m turning that instinct on my own data: pulling twenty years of my life off the platforms and onto ground I own, and building the habit of micro-journaling in my own garden instead of Meta’s.
Buy Your Milk From Someone You Know
Every untracked transaction is a small act of structural resistance
Every untracked transaction is a small act of structural resistance. From The Digital Caste: Surveillance Capitalism and the Architecture of Permanent Inequality on michaeljoelhall.com
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Concepts: Saṅgha · Sevā · Sthira · Dāna
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The Maze Designer’s Defense
“You could always turn left” is the argument of the maze designer explaining to the rat that it has a choice
The choice to opt out is the choice to accept systematic economic disadvantage. From The Digital Caste: Surveillance Capitalism and the Architecture of Permanent Inequality on michaeljoelhall.com
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Concepts: Svātantrya · Bandha · Pratītyasamutpāda · Mokṣa
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Are We Animating the Machine?
Yoga and AI alike invite us to notice how we animate the forms we inhabit—and what parts of ourselves are reflected back.
Duan suggests its our presence that animates technologyjust as attention brings asana to life on the mat. From Is AI really consciousor are we bringing it to life? on scientificamerican.com
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Original source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-ai-really-conscious-or-are-we-bringing-it-to-life/
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Concepts: Svadhyaya · Satya · Abhyasa · Pratyahara
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Green Funerals
Choose funeral options with transparency and local care—prioritize honest data, ecosystem impact, and rituals that serve grief over glossy promises.
We love a redemptive ending. The body returns to soil, a tree grows from the grave, death becomes compost. Green funerals promise exactly this: natural burials, human composting, alkaline hydrolysis, even those biodegradable pods that turn you into a sapling. It’s beautiful. It’s also complicated. Hannah Gould and Georgina Robinson wrote something sharp about this in Aeon. They’re not against ecological burial—they’re against the way it gets sold. The marketing is sleek. The data is often thin. Some of these technologies are still aspirational, others oversimplify genuine trade-offs.
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Concepts: Anicca · Pratityasamutpada · Aparigraha · Satya
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The Digital Poorhouse
Automated systems don’t remove human bias—they move it, and they hide it from view
Automated systems don’t remove human bias they move it, and they hide it from view. I grew up in small-town America. The kind of place where you knew the person behind the counter at the hardware store and bought your milk from someone whose name you could actually remember. It wasn’t romantic — it was just how commerce worked. You exchanged money for goods, and nobody was quietly adjusting your price based on what phone you carried or how long you lingered in the dairy aisle. That world is vanishing.
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Read the full article: https://theyoga.club/the-digital-poorhouse/
Original source: https://michaeljoelhall.com/the-digital-caste-surveillance-capitalism-and-the-architecture-of-permanent-inequality/
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Concepts: Avidyā · Ahiṃsā · Viveka · Saṃskāra
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