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Applying the hacker / engineering mindset to Spirituality

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I have been a software engineer for 10 years and also spent now 7 years living in Goa/India and got into spirituality doing many different groups.

I have started a dog shelter with 65 dogs (insta @dog_temple_goa ) and learned a lot ... About life&death&healing

I would like to share my discoveries , but not sure how yet.

Just trying to use my instagram account now for sharing: @michaelsappler

Any input?

Re: Applying the hacker / engineering mindset to Spirituality

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Yes of course but how to find the audience ?

If this was a link to an article about "Applying the hacker mindset to spirituality" I would be reading your blog right now.

Interesting, okay. But I am just getting started :)

Re: Applying the hacker / engineering mindset to Spirituality

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It's hard. HN specifically doesn't respond well to it. I'll give you concrete example: I once tried making a comment and mentioned 'universe rewards creativity', that got downvoted pretty hard, even though as engineering mind you should consider stuff like:

- solving a problem in a smart way and get cred/promotion/recognition - asking out/getting attention of a girl/boy you like - paying for clothes you think is cool (some t-shirt with a cool text/drawing or something that looks good on you, etc) I'd love to hear your learnings though. Please do post where you are going to share them.

Re: Applying the hacker / engineering mindset to Spirituality

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Blog, Substack, or Newsletter.

Yes of course but how to find the audience ?

That's probably the easiest thing. Non religious spirituality has a huge audience in this day and age.

Perhaps it's the fallout from the hard new-atheist/new-antitheist preachers of a a decade ago.

Re: Applying the hacker / engineering mindset to Spirituality

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It's hard. HN specifically doesn't respond well to it. I'll give you concrete example: I once tried making a comment and mentioned 'universe rewards creativity', that got downvoted pretty hard, even though as engineering mind you should consider stuff like: - solving a problem in a smart way and get cred/promotion/recognition - asking out/getting attention of a girl/boy you like - paying for clothes you think is cool…

Yeah, there are certain superstitions. The words have to be chosen carefully for the audience. 'Universe' is just too ... 'universal' of a word to make any sense of meaning of it.

A better approach may be just to offer practical tools how to increase our potential for creativity... things we can actually try and do. It is a reward in itself.

Re: Applying the hacker / engineering mindset to Spirituality

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes of course but how to find the audience ?

That's probably the easiest thing. Non religious spirituality has a huge audience in this day and age. Perhaps it's the fallout from the hard new-atheist/new-antitheist preachers of a a decade ago.

It should not even be called spirituality ... just how to find our full potential. The word spirituality has a very bad history ... people fought wars over who is right/wrong.
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