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from deep laziness
  • Good rituals are the things one does by default, without undue effort. Wu Wei and slack point in the same direction.
from Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown
  • Probably it's best understood as a deadpan subversive semi-joke like 'Pataphysics or slack. In which case I am being kind of dull-witted in trying to pin it down with precise definitions.
from Stances, a Catalog
from How to be less agentic
  • Join The Church of The SubGenius, learn how to cultivate slack which is much better than agency. Also see Dudeism
from Slack Oriented Programming
  • See slack SOP means programming with a minimum of effort. Of course with the rise of coding agents, this means something quite different than it used to, but the underlying principles are the same.
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slack

30 Oct 2021 - 12 Oct 2026
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    • The goal of the SubGenius. Really more of an anti-goal, goals are sort of anathema to slack, which is beyond striving.
    • Slack is like relaxation, in the sense that a thermonuclear weapon is like a firecracker. It's like enlightenment squared, samadhi on steroids, next-level nirvana.
    • vgr theory of slouching is kind of a pragmatic, real-world version of slack. As kind of a technique to be deployed in certain situations where agency is impossible or destructive. See stance for more.