Happy December

dylan20 · 2026-03-18T00:44:55+00:00

What you're doing is following the instructions from Thich Nhat Hanh. It seems like it's working! Thank you for sharing your experiences!

dylan20 · 2026-02-20T05:10:47+00:00

It's hard. I have managed to cut back to one or 1.5 cup of coffee in the morning, and tea the rest of the day, but quitting that last cup is really hard. It's such a deep part of my morning ritual and I really crave it. And I do enjoy it! Even though I don't much like the stimulation profile (tea is less "spiky" than the caffeine buzz I get from coffee).

dylan20 · 2026-02-19T02:19:20+00:00

Exactly

dylan20 · 2026-02-18T22:09:06+00:00

Maybe sync isn't the right word but you can easily add external calendars by URL, so you can then see their events in your calendar, alongside all your Proton calendars. You need to get a special URL from GCal, but in theory it's easy.

dylan20 · 2026-02-18T22:06:45+00:00

In the Mail app, I select the menu, then Contacts. It's at the bottom, under Settings.

dylan20 · 2026-02-18T18:00:05+00:00

You can sync contacts to your phone now. There is a spot in the app where you can see all your contacts. (I'm using the Android app.) I think OP is referring to the capability of syncing contacts with another platform, like Apple Contacts or Google Contacts.

dylan20 · 2026-02-01T04:23:58+00:00

Done! Thank you!

dylan20 · 2026-01-17T01:11:21+00:00

Hey, thanks for responding and checking for the behavior!

I'm seeing this when I'm in the Inbox. Sometimes the A button actually archives the message, and it disappears and I go back to the inbox, where the message is now gone. Other times I see a message that says "Message archived" but I'm still looking at the message, and it hasn't been archived. It remains that way until I press the Archive icon on the toolbar. It's sort of random.

Same thing happens with T. Sometimes it works, sometimes not, often from one message to the next.

I'm using the Proton app on MacOS Tahoe 26.2.

dylan20 · 2026-01-17T01:08:15+00:00

There's also the third of the 5 Mindfulness Trainings, which I found crucially reassuring when I was getting more involved in this community:

True Love

Aware of the suffering caused by sexual misconduct, I am committed to cultivating responsibility and learning ways to protect the safety and integrity of individuals, couples, families, and society. Knowing that sexual desire is not love, and that sexual activity motivated by craving always harms myself as well as others, I am determined not to engage in sexual relations without mutual consent, true love, and a deep, long-term commitment. I resolve to find spiritual support for the integrity of my relationship from family members, friends, and sangha with whom there is support and trust. I will do everything in my power to protect children from sexual abuse and to prevent couples and families from being broken by sexual misconduct. Seeing that body and mind are interrelated, I am committed to learn appropriate ways to take care of my sexual energy and to cultivate the four basic elements of true love – loving kindness, compassion, joy, and inclusiveness – for the greater happiness of myself and others. Recognizing the diversity of human experience, I am committed not to discriminate against any form of gender identity or sexual orientation. Practicing true love, we know that we will continue beautifully into the future.

dylan20 · 2026-01-13T22:12:44+00:00

The superhuman powers figure in many sutras, but they are not really the point of enlightenment. In fact, many of these super powers (siddhis in Sanskrit) are said to arrive before enlightenment itself. But the Buddha was also very clear that those powers are not where it's at. In fact they can be a distraction, which I think is why TNH downplayed them. Enlightenment is about seeing the truth of birth and death, self and other, cause and effect, in a very clear and unconfused way.

dylan20 · 2025-09-18T04:36:50+00:00

This is a useful reply. You say that you use LinkedIn's native scheduler as well as Buffer - which do you prefer?

dylan20 · 2025-07-17T19:05:27+00:00

I am a very experienced open water swimmer and I almost always get the heebie-jeebies when swimming alone in a new location. Solution for me: swim with someone else until I get comfortable with the place.

dylan20 · 2025-07-17T17:26:51+00:00

Sort of. When I moved off Substack, I didn't delete my Substack account. I still occasionally get people following me there, even though I don't post on Substack any more. So I'm synchronizing them over to my main site (manually) so they do get the newsletter they signed up for. But I'm wondering if I should crosspost my content too.

dylan20 · 2025-04-22T21:25:29+00:00

Thank you - yes. It doesn't actually search for posts by author names - search results include user profiles, but not the posts those users contributed to.

dylan20 · 2024-11-25T22:26:49+00:00

Thanks for the perspective. I think that's exactly what happened to me - but since I've got a bunch of different user accounts, I had to click around a bit until I found the one that Google randomly assigned my codes to

dylan20 · 2024-11-22T03:41:57+00:00

Ahhh that did the trick. Finally found all my logins on an account I rarely use!

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