Greetings. Today I would like to talk about joy.

Not something we always talk about in the Metacrisis, polycrisis space.

Last week I tweeted a picture which has been going around of the anomaly in the ocean temperatures, which is like

blowing away the range of the last 20 years, quite ominous, even though it's probably

mostly due to El Nino.

And my tweet said, this does not bring me joy. On a bike ride earlier today,

um, as is always the case, the neurons and reflections are going on in silence when I'm

on the road, uh, in the woods by the forest, by the river for two hours, I reflected on what does bring me joy.

There's something called Anhadonia, which is the inability to feel joy or feel pleasure.

And Daniel Schmockenberger and I, on a recent podcast on artificial intelligence, belabored the fact that our society doesn't use wide enough boundaries

in our economic system and in what we care about.

And so the narrow boundary focus of profits and money ends up being the focus.

But I think also if you constantly use wide boundary analysis to view the world, you over time develop the inability to feel joy. Joy

is a narrow boundary experience where you don't think about the rest of the world.

You experience something joyful in the moment. So I'm going to list 10 things, if I remember them all, that bring me joy.

And joy is different than novelty or unexpected reward or lust or happiness or motivation,

you know, those things. Joy is like the antithesis of tragedy and melancholy. It's the opening up of the human spirit to what is possible and it like feels right with the world.

Everything's beautiful and possible and right.

I'm sure there's a dictionary definition of joy.

In any case, for me, Nate, in the year 2023, knowing what I know, doing what I do,

here are the things that bring me joy.

First of all, games with other people.

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