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[2020-03-01] handbook/values.md at master · davidgasquez/handbook [[inspiration]]§

https://github.com/davidgasquez/handbook/blob/master/content/values.md

Embrace Weirdness. Don't be just another human. Find your place, do what you love and put yourself outside the comfort zone. Unexpected and unconventional things make life more interesting.

[2020-03-01] handbook/values.md at master · davidgasquez/handbook§

https://github.com/davidgasquez/handbook/blob/master/content/values.md
really good page, I agree with pretty much everything

[2018-06-30] introspection: public/book-of-beliefs.md at master · busterbenson/public [[qs]] [[inspiration]] [[toblog]]§

https://github.com/busterbenson/public/blob/master/book-of-beliefs.md

I should write thoughts more to track back how i thought. Just on general topics [[habit]] [[mem]] [[leech]]§

I guess look up random topics and write down. Otherwise you tend to forget

Need to read some book or search on Reddit how to come up with discussion topics. Maybe some way of quickly brute force and synthesise [[read]]§

Make a mind map/ timeline of all the different projects I’m doing, it could look very cool [[toblog]]§

[2019-09-06] in ~/org/brain§

Really need to log my thoughts every day.. otherwise time passes and I forget and lose track of state changes§

[2019-06-18] LPT: If you feel like you never have enough time for stuff, don’t focus on time management. Spend time managing your ability to focus. /r/LifeProTips§

This is why people do their writing on laptops in coffee shops.  You can't just stop and masturbate.

[2019-06-18] Anyone else feel like they have too many hobbies and not enough time? /r/simpleliving§

You just can't do everything every day.  Once you are at peace with that, and not worrying about 'doing everything' (as facebook and other highlight reels make you think you should do), you'll be fine.
For things you want to do, you will find time.  Just let go of when the right time is.

experiment how long can I manage without updating any of my stuff? [[infra]]§

My dream is having team of people almost exactly like me cooperating on the same things§

[2021-01-21] I mean, ‘exactly like me’ on a high level, in terms of goals, vision, maybe attitude? Diversity is fun.§

there are no exact and complete definitions [[think]]§

I spent a while ago trying to figure out ‘exact’ definitions of functional vs object oriented programming
Or exact formalisms for quantum mechanics
Or ‘correct’ ways of working with git
Or precise guides of composing music
etc.
but at some point you realise there is no right way once you understand things enough, there is a continuum.
There is no right way and often you can do great things regradless exact formalisms etc
need to develop this thought more and come up with more examples

[2019-05-21] maybe blog once I develop the thought? [[toblog]]§

[2019-05-21] or about the way I look, or the music I listen, or whether I socialize or not, or whether I have a girlfriend or not. There is no right way, and what’s the most important thing is no one actually gives much shit about what you are doing with your life.§

[2019-12-22] Year in Review: 2019 :: Up and to the Right — Jonathan Borichevskiy§

https://jborichevskiy.com/posts/year-in-review-2019/

[2020-02-29] Find The Others - YouTube [[inspiration]]§

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9HVAHbg_3k

[2020-01-19] Richard Feynman on Twitter: "• Read everyday. • Spend time with nature. • Ask questions. • Never stop learning. • Don’t pay attention to what others think of you. • Do what interests you the most. • Study hard. • Teach others what you know. • Make mistakes and learn. • It’s Okay to not know things! https://t.co/MmdOjZBWYd" / Twitter§

<https://twitter.com/ProfFeynman/status/1218739120714985472 >

• Read everyday.
• Spend time with nature.
• Ask questions.
• Never stop learning.
• Don't pay attention to what others think of you.
• Do what interests you the most.
• Study hard.
• Teach others what you know.
• Make mistakes and learn.
• It's Okay to not know things!

[2020-05-21] Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s predictions for the future§

And if we’re not out there, if the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multiplanet species, I find that it’s incredibly depressing if that’s not the future that we’re going to have

[2020-02-04] Jonathan Borichevskiy on Twitter: "I really like this. Definitely intersects nicely with how I’ve been looking at my goals and objectives and how they interact with the people I connect with. https://t.co/5cJeMncNxm" / Twitter§

<https://twitter.com/jborichevskiy/status/1224129914057773056 >

I really like this. Definitely intersects nicely with how I’ve been looking at my goals and objectives and how they interact with the people I connect with.

What My Book Ratings Mean · Ana Ulin [[rating]]§

https://anaulin.org/blog/my-book-ratings/

[2020-06-10] [Visakan Veerasamy on Twitter: "done! the cool thing about doing this is that it has revealed its structure to me – I didn’t plan out how all of this was going to be sorted, but "origin story / context", "tactics", "challenges", "end goal", "what I think I know" feels correct to me. now, the content page https://t.co/6qquA1XyFJ" / Twitter](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1260174038040641537 )§

done! the cool thing about doing this is that it has revealed its structure to me – I didn't plan out how all of this was going to be sorted, but "origin story / context", "tactics", "challenges", "end goal", "what I think I know" feels correct to me.

[2019-01-25] My Impossible List | College Info Geek [[inspiration]]§

https://collegeinfogeek.com/about/meet-the-author/my-impossible-list/

interesting list of possible life goals

[2019-01-24] joshp23 comments on How to break up with someone you can’t bare to hurt [[relationships]] [[emotions]]§

https://www.reddit.com/r/Buddhism/comments/2el542/how_to_break_up_with_someone_you_cant_bare_to_hurt/ck13yo8/

some comprehensive advice on mirroring, emotional honesty, questioning a relationship

[2019-06-13] How to Be Happy - LessWrong 2.0 [[gratitude]]§

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZbgCx2ntD5eu8Cno9/how-to-be-happy

Develop the habit of gratitude. Savor the good moments throughout each day.38 Spend time thinking about happy memories.39 And at the end of each day, write down 5 things you are grateful for: the roof over your head, your good fortune at being born in a wealthy country, the existence of Less Wrong, the taste of chocolate, the feel of orgasm... whatever. It sounds childish, but it works

[2019-06-27] some sort of CV listing all things where I program/programmed§

cause some things are not visible on github

professional yak shaver§

[2019-06-13] How to Be Happy - LessWrong 2.0 [[social]]§

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZbgCx2ntD5eu8Cno9/how-to-be-happy

[2019-06-13] some potentially useful advice in this post, but otherwise pretty trivial§

should put discontinued in github project’s descriptions, so it’s visible on overview§

[2019-12-21] Steve Schlafman 🌎 on Twitter: "I just sat down to kickoff my annual review for 2019 and begin to think about what I want to accomplish in 2020. If you would like to complete your own, here’s the template I use each year: https://t.co/R3M5G9V1Uj" / Twitter§

<https://twitter.com/schlaf/status/1208471743108509696 >

I just sat down to kickoff my annual review for 2019 and begin to think about what I want to accomplish in 2020.
If you would like to complete your own, here's the template I use each year:

https://merveilles.town/@luxpris/103483748356708488 finding time§

What I look like without the flesh prison§

https://redd.it/f96e75

Tweet from @nikitavoloboev life themes§

<https://twitter.com/nikitavoloboev/status/1231337713858732039 >

@nikitavoloboev: Recently inspired by @cgpgrey post on themes. Decided to note down some general themes of my own I want to focus my life on going forward.
wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/focusi...

[2020-05-05] Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help | Hacker News§

It's okay to build things that aren't popular, that don't scale, or that aren't economically viable, for the delight of a few users.

malleable organic memories with perfect digital archives. We will have a record [[toblog]]§

Todo
from Exhalation by Ted Chiang

crap, it just feels like it’s taking WAY too much time to share thing [[totweet]] [[toblog]] [[software]]§

maybe the next project – I’ll only share pointers to the tests & examples, let them figure out how to run it themselves

[2020-01-09] /uses§

https://uses.tech/

/uses
A list of /uses pages detailing developer setups, gear, software and configs.

[2020-07-06] [/dev/caneco on Twitter: "🔒"You found a secret!" Apparently `yourhandle/yourhandle` is a ✨special ✨ repository that you can use to add a https://t.co/vN1U0KwWlX to your GitHub profile. 🤭 https://t.co/60MQs0GagT" / Twitter](https://twitter.com/Caneco/status/1279434881253154817 )§

Apparently `yourhandle/yourhandle` is a
special
 repository that you can use to add a http://README.md to your GitHub profile.

[2019-08-04] xkcd: Overstimulated https://xkcd.com/602/§

[2020-05-29] [(20) Mek on Twitter: "This shirt makes meeting new people so fun + easy. Gives a new meaning to "wearing one’s ❤️ on one’s 👕". Why advertise a corporate logo when you can proudly wear your passions? + ppl have lots on their mind. A shirt may kindly help folks not feel shy if they forget your name! https://t.co/Wl1DGEZjyW" / Twitter](https://twitter.com/mekarpeles/status/1266466581451665408 )§

This shirt makes meeting new people so fun + easy.
Gives a new meaning to "wearing one's
❤️
 on one's
👕
". Why advertise a corporate logo when you can proudly wear your passions?

[2020-06-01] Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics | AI Podcast 89 with Lex Fridman - YouTube [[death]]§

damn, Wolfram’s thoughts on death and meaning are so similar to mine!

[2020-06-02] INSANE! SpaceX Falcon Heavy Side Boosters Landing Simultaneously at Kennedy Space Center - YouTube§

gives me tears, every time!

[2020-06-06] How SpaceX Lands Rockets with Astonishing Accuracy - YouTube§

damn, even this brought me some tears when I saw people cheering. fascinating

goals§

need to exercise
      v
it's suffering  -> need to reduce the suffering -> don't exercise when it's hot -> wake up earlier -> go to bed earlier
                                                                                \> exercise late? but still might be hot even at 22:00
                                                                                   (either way, better to eat late than to exercise when it's hot)
      v
so need to get as much from it as possible -> don't eat junk (and less bready things). if I exercise I could at least reap the benefits and look rip(er?)
      v
just eat fucking supplements

[2020-06-24] (2) Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence | AI Podcast 103 with Lex Fridman - YouTube [[death]]§

3:42:00 "death is bad. people will find meaning in anything. if someone is tortured, they would write a poem how it had a profound influence on their life"

[2020-07-16] [(1) Hilary Agro 🍄 on Twitter: "During my research I interviewed a guy who said he was a libertarian until he did MDMA and realized that other people have feelings, and that was pretty much the best summary of libertarianism I’ve ever heard" / Twitter](https://twitter.com/hilaryagro/status/1229177598003077123 ?lang=en)§

During my research I interviewed a guy who said he was a libertarian until he did MDMA and realized that other people have feelings, and that was pretty much the best summary of libertarianism I've ever heard

[2019-05-26] Эмпатия в IT: как рационально использовать свою человеческую природу / Андрей Бреслав - YouTube§

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz4NaOtbWqc&feature=youtu.be

словарь эмоций
радость, интерес, страх, стыд
отвращение, тревога, раздражение, грусть

[2019-05-26] Эмпатия в IT: как рационально использовать свою человеческую природу / Андрей Бреслав - YouTube§

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz4NaOtbWqc&feature=youtu.be

если пытаться замечать физические ощущения, мысли "замедляются" и засчет этого проще замечать эмоции

[2019-05-26] Эмпатия в IT: как рационально использовать свою человеческую природу / Андрей Бреслав - YouTube§

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz4NaOtbWqc&feature=youtu.be

потребности:
безопасность, автономия, игра, смысл, связь, физическое здоровье, честность, мир/cпокойствие

I’ve noticed that consciousness recedes when I’m deep in a coding phase, many back-to-back days in flow. My mind narrows to tunnel-vision, fixated on the software and its issues. My sense of self shrinks; non-code ideas cease to arise; I get less curious; writing yields little. [[flow]] [[coding]]§

<https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1317657970864312321 >

[2020-10-22] George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets | Lex Fridman Podcast 132 - YouTube§

wow, Hotz has a similar opinion on Ayn Rand (the books in kind of entertaining pornography)

[2020-10-22] George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets | Lex Fridman Podcast 132 - YouTube§

fucking hell… he also named

  • permutation city
  • metamorphosis of prime intellect

wow!

[2020-10-18] [Andy Matuschak on Twitter: "I’ve noticed that consciousness recedes when I’m deep in a coding phase, many back-to-back days in flow. My mind narrows to tunnel-vision, fixated on the software and its issues. My sense of self shrinks; non-code ideas cease to arise; I get less curious; writing yields little." / Twitter](https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1317657970864312321 ) [[programming]]§

[2020-10-18] [Eli Finer on Twitter: "@andymatuschak This was what convinced me to finally leave behind a career in coding after 25 years. I enjoy coding while I’m doing it, but if I do it for many hours in a day it seems to dry my soul. After a full day of coding I don’t want to be close to my wife, play with my kids or…" / Twitter](https://twitter.com/finereli/status/1317690194389213184 )§

This was what convinced me to finally leave behind a career in coding after 25 years. I enjoy coding while I'm doing it, but if I do it for many hours in a day it seems to dry my soul. After a full day of coding I don't want to be close to my wife, play with my kids or...

[2020-10-18] [ryan on Twitter: "@Meaningness @andymatuschak suspect this is similar to "on a break mode" e.g. i took a 3 month holiday in 2018 after no more than 14 days off study/work since 2008. it took me about 6 to feel like I fully entered "on a break mode" (and, it was glorious)." / Twitter](https://twitter.com/context_ing/status/1317678157483241472 )§

suspect this is similar to "on a break mode"
e.g. i took a 3 month holiday in 2018 after no more than 14 days off study/work since 2008.
it took me about 6 to feel like I fully entered "on a break mode" (and, it was glorious).

[2020-10-18] [ALXS on Twitter: "@andymatuschak @Meaningness This resonates with me 1000%. Coding creates a trance state that is seductive but sometimes sterile, bc the domain is often so narrow. The days are good but what kind of months do they add up to? But I wonder if I feel this way only bc I’m a bit fixated on self-expression." / Twitter](https://twitter.com/alexisgallagher/status/1317675992303874049 )§

This resonates with me 1000%.
Coding creates a trance state that is seductive but sometimes sterile, bc the domain is often so narrow. The days are good but what kind of months do they add up to?
But I wonder if I feel this way only bc I’m a bit fixated on self-expression.

damn, this all is so fucking relatable!

[2020-07-17] Almost every time i wake up too late, I regret goring to bed late. But i never regretted waking up early, or even going to bad too early. Like, how would I even express this regret?? [[sleep]]§

[2020-11-06] I kinda like that i have mental power to spend lots of time on seemingly boring stuff [[programming]]§

(After refactoring porg/orgparse)

[2020-12-06] Favorite books 2020 [[outbox]] [[toblog]]§

maybe share mine?..

I really need to figure out how to simplify good ideas I have and deliver them faster [[think]] [[publish]] [[writing]]§

  • State "STRT" from "TODO" [2019-04-22]

[2020-05-13] real life > videogames§

there is stuff to build and solve

[2021-01-21] it doesn’t mean that I judge you for playing video games, it’s just my way of staying away from them§

* journal§

[2020-10-09] Had a great pleasure listening to queen innuendo [[music]]§

[2020-10-17] The smell of burned wood is amazing§

[2020-12-07] I really love setting people exercise outdoors, especially when it’s cold/rainy [[exercise]]§

[2020-12-16] .§

Dunno wtf? I kinda chilled all day, barely worked, cooked etc
And yet I feel kinda sleepy, eyes really tired etc. The fuck is this??

[2020-12-19] .§

Spent all day kinda procrastinating.. I definitely don’t seem to know how to relax
I guess in normal circumstances I could have gone bouldering or something

[2021-01-15] programming is the worst. it’s so empowering yet it takes fucking ages to get anything done [[programming]]§

[2020-09-14] very happy seeing my old cross trainer dashboard and the new one in comparison… it contained all the old data, but also new enhanced stuff that was possible due to me better thinking about the problem & handling more consistently [[coding]]§

[2020-05-08] I feel so fucking happy [[hpi]] [[self]]§

HPI is on HN top and all positive responses from people who try to build similar things
I wanna jump!

[2019-08-06] async and js flow are extremely nice. I managed to do very complicated refactorings [[js]]§

[2020-10-04] x [[appreciation]]§

Felt so good walking in shorts in rain through London. I just walke, listened to music and thought about random stuff. Amazing.

[2020-10-06] again, excited how it’s all coming together [[hpi]]§

gradually getting covered mypy, proper tests, fake data, everything starts making sense

[2020-12-23] shit. kinda wasted the evening§

was gonna do some work on axol, or on blog… instead just not sure where to start from and just sort of procrastinating

should concentrate on releasing first version; not adding random features [[promnesia]]§

[2019-08-08] ugh.§

[2020-02-14] jesus!!!§

[2020-05-01] yeah…§

[2020-04-12] spent an hour trying to get org-sync back into the working state [[emacs]] [[elisp]]§

<https://twitter.com/karlicoss/status/1249271137105838084 >
just fuck this. I’m better off rewriting it in Python

(switch-to-buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously "https://api.github.com/repos/karlicoss/HPI/issues")

this (used in org-sync internals) simply results in empty buffer and silently ignored by org-sync. fucking hell.

[2020-07-20] kinda stupid that I am basically not using dron edit even though invested enough time into it [[dron]]§

[2020-04-28] I haven’t solved all my goals, but at least i feel im on the right path [[promnesia]]§

[2020-09-19] nice, everything is kind of coming together, pretty neatly. propagated fake data through the system, glued stuff together, etc. it could work [[hpi]] [[dashboard]]§

I love open source [[self]]§

If I encounter some problem in the software I use on daily basis and I can’t google it in couple of minutes, I will download the source code and investigate it myself. I’d normally fix it myself as well :) Check my Github and Bitbucket

start wrtiting down notes on all the various subjects I possibly think about [[exobrain]] [[self]]§

nature environment family, sex, etc etc

[2019-12-17] [Riva on Twitter](https://twitter.com/rivatez/status/1207066466304045056 )§

I'm 100% down for this plan. I *have* to be here when we meet aliens for the first time, develop interstellar travel, start exploring other galaxies, and eventually discover the meaning of life.

[2019-05-28] Tweet from Arula Ratnakar (@arulaartwork), at May 28, 12:00§

If there was an option, right now, that could take the part of me that can spend eons just focused on a single task, and immortalize it, I would do it. I don't give a f*ck about youth or beauty or relationships in terms of preservation. That stuff is beautiful in its ephemerality

<https://twitter.com/arula_artwork/status/1133327170594467843 >

What if i can spend 100% time aware??? [[mind]] [[lucid]]§

[2019-01-27] cyanicenine comments on Hobbies that provide cognitive benefits? [[cognitive]] [[sport]] [[hobby]]§

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/9jcxfn/hobbies_that_provide_cognitive_benefits/e6rd1f6/

Complex balance oriented sports like skiing, snowboarding, inline skating, skateboarding, wakeboarding, surfing, rock climbing and mountain biking. These kind of sports require you to be completely focused on your task or else you end up on your ass. By being so laser focused, body and mind, you can cheat your way to a zen like state where it's impossible for you to think of anything but the here and now, you are fully in the moment.

[2020-09-07] How can you make subjective time go slower? | Hacker News [[mind]]§

Just do new things. Go to new places, talk to new people, try new things. It can be as simple as not taking the same route to work/grocery store/etc every time. Mix it up.
Some claim that time feels quicker as you get older because each passing minute is a smaller and smaller portion of your life(e.g. summer for a 6 year old is 5% of their life, whereas it is only half a percent of the life of a 50 year old). But I don't buy that.
Time goes quicker as you get older because people get stuck in the same routine, and it is quite easy to compress memories together when you do the same thing every day. So, go explore, every day, even if it is just mental exploration through books or music, and time will surely slow down.

[2020-06-16] emotion wheel [(1) QC on Twitter: "TL feels heavy today so let’s do another vibe check with the feel wheel. how’s everyone feeling today? in as much or as little detail as you’re into https://t.co/X95f6LZnV6" / Twitter](https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1272990004633989120 ) [[emotions]]§

TL feels heavy today so let's do another vibe check with the feel wheel. how's everyone feeling today? in as much or as little detail as you're into

[2020-04-06] (HN discussion on configs) wow, people have such strong opinions about software architecture, what it should be and what it shouldn’t be etc§

Like, unconditionally assuming that there is data and there is code, and that there is no middle ground whatsoever
often assuming there is one single way of doing things and that’s it. incredible

[2020-02-20] Эмпатия, поддержка, принятие - YouTube [[empathy]]§

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfLkBXIIVBs&list=WL&index=21
good talk, most clear explanation I’ve seen

[2020-02-20] Honesty and polyamory in a big city | Andrew Breslav | TEDxSPbPU - YouTube [[polyamory]]§

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8JW0Oys8TE&list=WL&index=22
TLDR: be as honest as possible

[2019-01-11] Therapy and rationality /r/slatestarcodex [[therapy]]§

I hope this is relevant here since the blog itself is at the intersection of these two subjects. I'm aware there was a long thread about therapy recently, but this is a more specific question.
I've tried a few different therapists now in the attempt to find one who's right for me, and at least two have independently told me the same thing: that my mode of discussion in the therapy sessions is too "abstract". This tends to happen when I start talking about percentage probabilities, or how well a theory fits the available facts, or whether a causal chain has a weak link – in other words, what they call "abstract", I would call scientific or rationalist.
When I use language like this, I'm usually trying to clarify and evaluate some assertion they've made about how my unconscious works, or what is happening in my life, or whatever. ("You think you want X, but maybe really you want Y, and that's why you do Z" etc.) And I feel like, in some cases, when their hypothesis is analysed more rigorously, it's revealed as a bit strained or patchy – as in so many fields, a vague formulation makes a half-baked claim sound at least initially plausible.
I'm not trying to claim I'm "too intelligent for therapy"! (These therapists have stunned me with their insights sometimes.) Only that a rationalist approach sometimes helps cut through some of the fog – and yet therapists don't seem to welcome it much.
Is there a real conflict here? Is therapy – at least as it's conventionally practised in the English-speaking world – inherently wary of an empiricist mindset? Or do I just need to keep looking for a therapist who thinks the way I do? I assume that when Scott Alexander is seeing patients, he is open to this stuff!

[2019-09-30] michaelnielsen on Twitter: "Without the sunk cost fallacy I’m not sure I’d ever have finished anything 😀" / Twitter [[writing]]§

<https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1062032179016818691 >

Without the sunk cost fallacy I'm not sure I'd ever have finished anything 

[2019-10-09] How to Pick Your Life Partner - Part 1 — Wait But Why [[relationships]]§

No, when it comes to dating, society frowns upon thinking too much about it, instead opting for things like relying on fate, going with your gut, and hoping for the best. If a business owner took society’s dating advice for her business, she’d probably fail, and if she succeeded, it would be partially due to good luck—and that’s how society wants us to approach dating.

[2019-09-03] Quora Answers by David Pearce (2015 - 2019 ) : transhumanism with a human face [[solipsism]]§

https://www.hedweb.com/quora/2015.html#radical

I once received a letter from an eminent logician, Mrs. Christine Ladd-Franklin, saying that she was a solipsist, and was surprised that there were no others. Coming from a logician and a solipsist, her surprise surprised me.”

[2019-11-24] The World’s Oldest Construction Project | Sagrada Familia - YouTube§

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkNGdzo_3EA
wow the ending almost caused some tears

[2019-02-20] Therapy and rationality : slatestarcodex [[therapy]]§

https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9tckh1/therapy_and_rationality/

I was discussing a problem with my good friend and he said something very interesting to me: "You are intelligent enough to provide an internally consistent rational framework to justify pretty much any belief you might have. But you don't have that belief because it is the rational thing to believe; people don't work like that. You started with your emotions and rationalized them to yourself. So I'm not even going to discuss that rationalization with you. I will give you advice about how to react to your emotions and I think you'll end up happier if you listen."

[2019-12-01] Tweet from Caitlin (@caithuls), at Dec 1, 01:52 [[meatspace]]§

[me doing body positivity] I love my skin prison

<https://twitter.com/caithuls/status/1005980923249283073 >

[2020-03-20] Build stuff§

https://why.degree/motivation/

[2019-10-18] Things I Dont Know as of 2018 | Lobsters§

https://lobste.rs/s/fvwmp1/things_i_dont_know_as_2018

[2019-11-22] huh. I know so many of these things on the other hand! https://overreacted.io/things-i-dont-know-as-of-2018§

[2019-06-10] Tweet from Альфина (@alphyna), at Jun 10, 14:02§

интересный факт: если много месяцев подряд хуячить, свету белого не видя, то когда таки разжимаешь булки, можешь обнаружить, что вместе с шедевром из тебя случайно высралась вся душа.

<https://twitter.com/alphyna/status/1138068869279621120 >

[2019-07-30] people in replies seem to enjoy very simple things. almost too simple§

[2019-06-18] Do you ever feel like a robot? (Kindof a rant) /r/INTP [[emotions]]§

Here's the good news: emotional deficiency can be trained. Basically, fake it until you can make it. It will however take its own sweet time, so you have to be persistent.

[2021-01-06] [jestem króliczkiem on Twitter: "Really enjoyed this episode, so much passion when Fyodor speaks of his work 🤩" / Twitter](https://twitter.com/karlicoss/status/1346614707243929603 ) [[self]] [[emotions]]§

Really enjoyed this episode, so much passion when Fyodor speaks of his work 

I like when people are passionate and excited about their work and hobbies? Makes me smile and kind of inspired?

[2020-10-13] Вера Котельникова: зачем вообще ходить на свидания (подкаст «правило 34») - YouTube [[social]] [[relationships]]§

[2020-06-17] (1) Joe Rogan Experience #1342 - John Carmack - YouTube [[cyberspace]]§

1:16 Carmack speaking about good sides of online

dependency/milestone graph [[self]] [[toblog]]§

need to live long <- need to be physically healthy <- need to eat good food <- research/learn about the nutrition, different diets etc <-
log all food <- can’t log restaurant/takeaway food <- cook almost all food by youself
need to spend less time cooking food <- become less fussy, cook in bulk, as little prep and processing as possible_

things that interest me: learning mathematics and alternative ways of doing so [[math]]§

proof assitants, visual things (autopology)

smaller separate updates feed for a ‘one year later’ commentary? [[blog]]§

[2020-12-26] Heather ⬢ Flowers (@HTHRFLWRS): "SOME QUESTIONS TO PONDER: * WHAT DO I ENJOY ABOUT BEING MY GENDER? * WHY DO I IDENTIFY WITH MY GENDER? * WHAT GENDERED EXPECTATIONS DO I PUT ON MYSELF? DO I ENJOY THOSE EXPECTATIONS? WHY OR WHY NOT? * WHAT GENDERED EXPECTATIONS DO I PUT ON OTHERS? WHY?" | nitter§

SOME QUESTIONS TO PONDER:
* WHAT DO I ENJOY ABOUT BEING MY GENDER?
* WHY DO I IDENTIFY WITH MY GENDER?
* WHAT GENDERED EXPECTATIONS DO I PUT ON MYSELF? DO I ENJOY THOSE EXPECTATIONS? WHY OR WHY NOT?
* WHAT GENDERED EXPECTATIONS DO I PUT ON OTHERS? WHY?

[2019-12-04] Physical Activity and Sports https://web.archive.org/web/20190714095626/http://catb.org/jargon/html/physical.html§

Among those who do, interest in spectator sports is low to non-existent; sports are something one does, not something one watches on TV.

[2019-06-23] 7 Secrets About Being in a Relationship With an INTJ Personality https://introvertdear.com/news/7-secrets-about-dating-an-intj/ [[intj]]§

huh, it’s ridiculous how me is that

[2021-01-18] Ode to a Flower: Richard Feynman’s Famous Monologue on Knowledge and Mystery, Animated – Brain Pickings§

I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree. Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,” and I think that he’s kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe…

I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it’s not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there’s also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts.

very similar to my perception!

[2021-02-07] [(1) Pete Fraser on Twitter: "I literally cannot believe that a full year down the line, people still use ‘it won’t kill *me*’ as an argument in public. Think what you like about any of it, but if the fact that you personally not being in a risk group is your cue to not take care, that says a lot about you." / Twitter](https://twitter.com/petefrasermusic/status/1358478540577116160 )§

I literally cannot believe that a full year down the line, people still use ‘it won’t kill *me*’ as an argument in public.

Think what you like about any of it, but if the fact that you personally not being in a risk group is your cue to not take care, that says a lot about you.

feels like covid taught me something about cooperation & personal risk
I definitely became more appreciative of regulations (even though governments are kinda shit at them)

[2020-10-24] Death apologists make me a little frustrated and kinda.. tired?§

[2021-03-13] inspiration: Fabien Benetou’s PIM | Fabien / Beliefs [[self]]§

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📚 Agora node [[#162 minimum viable self]] (pulled by the Agora)
📜 File Readwise/Articles/#162 Minimum Viable Self.md by @protopian ☆ 📎

#162: Minimum Viable Self§

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  • Something I frequently joke about—a dark truth that begs for humor—is how social media requires continuous posting just to remind everyone else you exist.
📚 Agora node [[2004 03 29 lost boy scattered self]] (pulled by the Agora)
📜 File _posts/archive/2004-03-29-lost-boy-scattered-self.md by @bmann ☆ 📎

layout: post title: "Lost Boy: Scattered Self" created: 1080578030 categories:

  • Mac
  • Personal Publishing

Currently I’m using AllConsuming for books, del.icio.us for bookmarks and Morten’s FOAF hosting to grab my wishlist from Amazon.

…

As these services allow me to take away my augmented data in an easily processable format (XML/RDF) it means that as a hacker I can do Cool Things. But, more importantly, as an end user I don’t have to worry about the pointy brackets: I key in some data and as well as an enriching my online experience, it also gives me a URL, a RESTful access point to my data, at which I can point other services. This is the Unix pipe metaphor extended to the web: small specialized services that can be plumbed together to create interesting applications.

Lost Boy: Scattered Self

Read the whole article. Some good usability comments, and at the end a“series of recommendations for building user-centric services”.

📚 Agora node [[2008 01 26 fund dww and hunmonk and the further development of drupal itself]] (pulled by the Agora)
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  • Chad Phillips
  • Derek Wright
  • Drupal Association
  • dww
  • hunmonk
  • project
  • project.module
  • aclight
  • Drupal

A long time ago, in a world far away, I had really hoped to work with a few other folks in funding the fine people that maintain project module. Actually, I think the Drupal Association should step up and fund the project directly, but there is debate about how and under what circumstances the Association can fund development of code directly. In any case…

What is project module? Well, you should bite your tongue! It is *the* piece of code that runs drupal.org. Everything from the core download itself to the wealth of 1600 contributed modules depends on project module to track bugs and feature requests, create new releases, and make it easy to download the latest version of code without having to know arcane CVS commands (disclosure: I actually love arcane CVS commands, but that’s another story).

If you use Drupal, you should fund the further development of the project module and the attendance of these two fantastic developers at Drupalcon Boston. Use the Flash widget in this post, or visit any page on this site in the upper right hand corner.

Update: turns out that dww and hunmonk are now good to go, but our job isn’t finished yet. aclight is another project contributor. I’ve swapped out the widget below for his. Read his pitch.

📚 Agora node [[20210426153423 class_in_itself]] (pulled by the Agora)
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📚 Agora node [[20210426153429 class_for_itself]] (pulled by the Agora)
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📚 Agora node [[2023 03 10 how to mentor yourself]] (pulled by the Agora)
📜 File _posts/2023-03-10-how-to-mentor-yourself.md by @forshaper ☆ 📎

Are you doing something with your life that differs strongly from how everyone around you plans on living their life? If so, read on. This is for you.

READING TIME: 13 minutes

In a Post-Internet Age, no single person can mentor you§

The word ‘mentor’ comes from a guy called Mentor, who was in the greek epic The Odyssey. Mentor was an older friend of Odysseus. When Odysseus went to war, he handed the education of his son Telemachus over to Mentor.

When I was in Southeast India last year, I befriended a guy named Ganesh who made sandals. I also met his father, whose name was Ganesh. He also made sandals. They were new to the sandal business, at a mere two generations. Another family I hung out with had been in hospitality for three generations. There was this potter who said his family had been in pottery for nine generations, and a metalworker who claimed thirteen generations. It used to be that Americans could expect to work an entire career in one company, and train their replacement to do their job. Will what your father did be a viable occupation in 2038? Will the things he physically did to do that job make sense for you to do?

A graphic designer does not cut and paste multiple media by hand, and maybe now they’re just called ‘creative director’, ‘information designer’, or ‘UX designer’. A lot of children want to grow up to be influencers. Influencers seem to come up from all sorts of specialties, falling into the influencer position by chance. This parallels the aristocrats and people with sinecures who birthed entire new fields of research in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Ten years ago people scoffed at the idea of a set of algorithms taking over an attorney’s job, and artists felt smug that no AI would ever come for them. When people make products for everyone, they ask about whether their grandmother could use that product. They do this to see if the product really could be used by everyone. This tells us about what some gaps might be between us and our parents. New technology may be harder for them to use, but is that the whole story?

I heard a mother tell her daughter that she didn’t want her going down an unfamiliar path because she just didn’t have the answers for any kind of questions that her daughter might have from going down that path. That’s a common sentiment- children today live in a world that their parents are not prepared for.

In a way, twas ever thus, but imagine, for a moment, being the first urban-dwelling reader in your forager family. There are hundreds of actual people in this position today. Your parents, say, know all about life in a 50-man band- gathering plants, hunting animals, and living off the land or, closer to a city, the detritus of civilization. What advice will they have for you on building your credit to obtain a mortgage for a house in Sacramento?

The gap between pre-internet and internet native is at least as wide as that gap. It may not seem that way because we’re right here in the middle of it.

Pick a Dead Person§

The phrase ‘What Would Jesus Do’ contains everything you need to mentor yourself. What Would Batman Do? What do we know of what Benjamin Franklin did?

You’ve seen this before, in fiction. The force ghost of Ben Kenobi guiding Luke Skywalker in ‘The Empire Strikes Back’, all the way to the generations of all force ghosts empowering Rey in ‘The Rise of Skywalker’. The lineage of Avatars in Avatar: The Last Airbender are there to counsel Aang and Katara. The Fa family’s ancestors lend Mulan their total support and wisdom. The MCU Black Panthers receive a message from a dead family member when they enter the trance state from eating the sacred herb. This process is older than we can remember- it was probably the way we interacted with the dead for most of our illiterate history. In the same way that people feel phantom limbs long after the limb has been cut off, we feel the dead in how they reverberate through our minds. There’s not much on who Shakespeare was, but we carry him with us. His art contained a piece of him, and now it lives on in us. So it’s not just the dead- it’s also those who were created by the dead. For the living, we call these relationships parasocial.

Parasocial relationships with the living present a difficulty- namely, the gap in expectation between their image and them. The resulting complications someone might run into include living life from the sidelines, feeling left out, and never taking a place among the pantheon of People Who Make Decisions. To get around that, we have the dead and the wholly imagined. Your own personal Jesus, who is more you than any Pope or Lee Man-hee would be.

I invite you to wonder about what you want to do with your life.

Given that mission, who would you want on your team? Who has the experience, the ability, the resolve to get what you want? These questions are how you will choose which people to devour into your mind.

Learn about those who are most likely to help you get your particular want. If you want to play soccer, then look at soccer players. If you want to bring stability to a large group of people, then maybe look at Octavian. If you want to hone your craft, perhaps look at Hokusai. You can also flip this- who would have been most likely to get in the way of what you want? Who gets in the way of soccer players? Maybe if you want to bring stability to a large group of people, you look at who seems to have created the most chaos. Who would have stopped someone from being an artist? You can also use someone that helps you get closer to someone living. Say you have a business, and narrow customer base. Does that customer base look up to someone in history? If they do, then submitting to that person would help you better understand your customer base.

Feel free to browse a place like Pantheon, where you can select from among the most memorable humans in our history.

Let the Dead Into Your Mind by Studying Them§

By going through the most memorable people in history, we are guaranteed access to data about them. The closer we get to a primary source, or someone who knew them, the better. Autobiographies are like striking gold, but there aren’t many of those relative to your choices. Video or audio recordings of their life are even better, but these are even more rare. You will also have to study their time, to better understand their context. What was life like for someone in their town? How long did they live? What did they eat? How did the people of that time relate to each other? Other animals? The sun? What were their everyday problems? What kind of crises did their groups expect to face? It’s only when you have an idea of their context that you can extrapolate what they might say about your context.

Contemporary interpretations of primary sources change with trends, and archaeological findings keep streaming in to change our understanding of the past. Simply keep these things in mind as you read them- what does the author of what you are reading want to believe about the person you want to know about? What are their morals? Would their judgment color how they interpret what they know?

You may have heard of scifi stories and future speculations about AIs that reconstruct past figures from trawling through data about them. That is what you’re doing, here. You are, however, doing this for your purpose- whatever that purpose might be. So the version of this person that you summon will be shaped by that purpose.

Once you can hear their thoughts as easily as you might hear an old friend’s, they are ready to serve as an elder.

What Napoleon did in his time is not necessarily indicative of what he would do today, in your context, with your capacities. Make sure the Napoleon in your mind has access to all your information. This is another way that the dead are easier than the living- it might be impossible to get a living person the information you have. However, since this Napoleon is a part of you, it is trivial for him to have access to everything you know, and trust is more easily given.

Assemble a Council of Elders§

As you study the lives of more and more individuals, you will be taken in by each of them. Along the way it may seem that this person had all the answers. There will be a part of you that craves rest, a part that wants one final tactic, method, strategy, belief, or moral path to rest on. No final tactic will ever exist. This lesson is learned by wanting something clearly and badly enough. Nikolai Bernstein researched what made the movements of experts unique. One of the things he found is something called ‘repetition without repetition’. The expert does the same thing a trillion different ways. Each time they do the same thing, they do it differently to adjust to the changing environment. You will find that the tactic that worked last time will not work as well this time, so you will find a new way because you really, really want the result.

So if an elder doesn’t have the answer, what use is it to ask them for advice?

Imagine you are a ruler of a kingdom. The Marshal of your armies wants to go to war with your neighbors, who killed one of your people. The Steward of your treasury wants you to raise taxes and lower costs, so a war is the last thing on his mind. The High Priest wants you to construct a temple and walk around a sacred place eighty times to pray for your land. The Vizier wants you to pass laws to make it easier to arrest popular people who associate with your neighbors. Who do you listen to?

You listen to all of them. Let yourself be influenced, rather than copy what any single one says. Listen to all of them to get a broader picture of the situation. If you understand why they want you to do what they’re asking you to do, and get what they see out of the situation, then they are serving their purpose as your council. None of them can know your purpose like you can, and none of them can enact your purpose like you can, but they can tell you about what they see, and that will be essential to understanding your affordances. That is, understanding what this situation might allow you to do.

Join Movement with What Your Elders Help You See§

As soon as you’ve heard everyone on your council out, it is time to move. Let what the elders say inform your decision, but make that decision and move. The more you move, the more information you get. The more information you have, the longer it takes to decide. A moment pregnant with information will feel like one in which you are running out of time. To create time, make a decision- and this is where your Council of Elders comes into play. Hear them out, then decide. Information slows you down. Making a decision speeds you up. Keep moving.

You make a move to see what’s going on, and you see what’s going on to make a move. The elders inform you, you take their information and act. In the thick of the action they will be silent, but they’ll be right where you left them when you’re ready to pop your head up and check out the lay of the land again.

This is why it’s important to affect the physical world with whatever advice a mentor might give. A friend mentioned they might have a mentor that’s a city planner, and so they would be instructed in modeling cities, but it would never turn into more movement. That is, your phantom mentor may give you advice on how to build castles in the sky, and you may never attempt to build a castle in the sky, content to build castles in your mind. This is where it becomes important to act, to make a move. It doesn’t have to be big. It can be tiny. You can turn the model in your mind into a model in space. If you have a lot of legos, build a lego city. If you don’t have legos, pick up a city construction simulator game. If you’re a quant, build a basic economic model of your neighborhood that a local small business owner could use. If you’re a kid on a beach, take that castle in the sky and build a sandcastle. When you get energy from that action, use that energy to make a slightly bigger move. Perhaps shift from a sandcastle to a clay castle at home. Maybe shift from Sim City to computer-aided design software. Shift from seducing yourself to seducing your neighborhood.

Your action will attract more attention over time, no matter what action that is. Once you’ve turned this into a process, you will probably be ready to view anyone as a mentor. Viewing any person in front of you as someone to learn from, a master will probably recognize you. “A teacher will appear”, as that old New Age saying goes.

📚 Agora node [[a method and device for becoming a property owner himself]] (pulled by the Agora)
📜 File A-method-and-device-for-becoming-a-property-owner-himself.md by @enki ☆ 📎

A method and device for becoming a property owner himself§

ABSTRACT


A method and device for becoming a property owner himself

ABSTRACT

A method and device for becoming a property owner himself. The devices comprises an old system, a mere instrument, a militant working, a Polish edition, an international product, a present system, a big factory, an other working, an eight-hour working, a Danish edition, an indispensable cloak, a first edition, a democratic newspaper, a English edition, a German edition, a whole system, an entire surface, a European working, a feudal system, a social stronghold, a revised edition, a chief load, a German working, a whole article, a bribed tool, a last resort, an own working, a transcendental robe, a modern working, an essential product, a 23-page pamphlet, a Russian edition, a mighty weapon, a second edition, a collective product, a present edition, a respective working, a subsequent edition, a great factory, an other article, a mechanical loom, a poor stock-in-trade, an own house, a sentimental veil, a parliamentary stronghold, a new machine, a representative system, a heavy artillery, a previous edition, a gigantic broom, a common platform, a European system, a capitalist system, a rough sketch, a whole working

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Figure 1 is a diagrammatical view of the progressive historical development of the proletariat.

Figure 2 is a schematic drawing of the first revolution in which the working class.

Figure 3 is a schematic drawing of a certain stage in the development.

Figure 4 is a schematic drawing of a corresponding political advance of that class.

Figure 5 illustrates the first conditions for the emancipation.

Figure 6 is a diagrammatical view of the influential bourgeoisie during the French revolution.

Figure 7 is a cross section of an independent section of modern society.

Figure 8 is a perspective view of all political action on the part.

Figure 9 is an isometric view of an exaggerated form of the ancient struggle.

Figure 10 is a diagrammatical view of the main consequences of the abolition.

Figure 11 is a block diagram of the same pace at which the progress.

Figure 12 is a perspective view of the working-class parties of every country.

Figure 13 is a cross section of the rural producers under the intellectual lead.

Figure 14 is a cross section of the vanished status of the workman.

Figure 15 is a schematic drawing of the great factory of the industrial capitalist.

Figure 16 is a diagrammatical view of the inevitable impending dissolution of modern bourgeois property.

Figure 17 is a cross section of the necessary offspring of their own form.

Figure 18 is a schematic drawing of the miraculous effects of their social science.

Figure 19 is a cross section of the historical movement as a whole.

Figure 20 is a diagrammatical view of the old system of manufacture or industry.

Figure 21 is a block diagram of the miserable character of this appropriation.

Figure 22 schematically illustrates the whole range of old society.

Figure 23 is a schematic drawing of the political form at last discovered.

Figure 24 schematically illustrates the icy water of egotistical calculation.

Figure 25 is an isometric view of a national bank with state capital.

Figure 26 is a diagrammatical view of the holy water with which the priest.

Figure 27 schematically illustrates the positive form of that republic.

Figure 28 is an isometric view of all other branches of the administration.

Figure 29 is a diagrammatical view of a rough sketch of national organisation.

Figure 30 is a perspective view of The essential conditions for the existence.

Figure 31 is a perspective view of a new proletarian line during the discussion.

Figure 32 is a diagrammatical view of The first direct attempts of the proletariat.

Figure 33 illustrates The proper form of their joint-stock government.

Figure 34 is a perspective view of the proletarian differ from the serf.

Figure 35 is a cross section of a fantastic conception of its own position.

Figure 36 is an isometric view of a powerful coefficient of social production.

Figure 37 is a cross section of a clear understanding of the character.

Figure 38 illustrates the actual position of first class.

Figure 39 is a cross section of a comprehensive formulation of the proletarian movement.

Figure 40 is a cross section of the rapid development of Polish industry.

Figure 41 is a block diagram of the momentary interests of the working class.

Figure 42 is an isometric view of the physical force elements of the old government.

Figure 43 is a perspective view of the senile mountebank at its head.

Figure 44 is a cross section of the healthy elements of French society.

Figure 45 is a diagrammatical view of the ultimate general results of the proletarian movement.

Figure 46 is a schematic drawing of the classical works of ancient heathendom.

Figure 47 is a perspective view of a mighty weapon in its struggle.

Figure 48 is an isometric view of The first , fundamental condition for the introduction.

Figure 49 is a perspective view of these philosophical phrases at the back.

Figure 50 is a diagrammatical view of an agrarian revolution as the prime condition.

Figure 51 illustrates no other nexus between man and man.

Figure 52 is a block diagram of the whole superincumbent strata of official society.

Figure 53 is a perspective view of the economic and political sway of the bourgeois class.

Figure 54 schematically illustrates the same course as its predecessor.

Figure 55 is a schematic drawing of every other employer in the search.

Figure 56 is a block diagram of the disastrous effects of machinery and division.

Figure 57 is a diagrammatical view of all numerous vanguard of scientific socialism.

Figure 58 is a perspective view of the social power of the nobility.

Figure 59 is a cross section of the first time in the introduction.

Figure 60 illustrates the individual workers so that the worker.

Figure 61 is an isometric view of the social character of the property.

Figure 62 is an isometric view of the economic progress of the country.

Figure 63 is an isometric view of the last great reserve of all European reaction.

Figure 64 is a schematic drawing of a new proof of the inexhaustible vitality.

Figure 65 illustrates the oracular tone of scientific infallibility.

Figure 66 is a diagrammatical view of the necessary condition for whose existence.

Figure 67 illustrates the civilized countries of the world.

Figure 68 illustrates the French criticism of the bourgeois state.

Figure 69 schematically illustrates the immediate demands of the movement.

Figure 70 illustrates the first class of the country.

Figure 71 is a diagrammatical view of the scattered state of the population.

Figure 72 is a diagrammatical view of a considerable part of the population.

Figure 73 is a diagrammatical view of the entire bourgeois society on its trial.

Figure 74 is an isometric view of the intellectual development of the working class.

Figure 75 is a schematic drawing of the first radical attack on private property.

Figure 76 illustrates the free movement of , society.

Figure 77 is a diagrammatical view of the latter stands at a higher stage.

Figure 78 is a schematic drawing of a new collection of the work.

Figure 79 is an isometric view of the Communistic abolition of buying and selling.

Figure 80 is a block diagram of a supplementary part of bourgeois society.

Figure 81 is a diagrammatical view of the economic conditions for its emancipation.

Figure 82 illustrates The political rule of the producer.

Figure 83 is a block diagram of the special privileges of the nobility.

Figure 84 is a schematic drawing of a revised edition of this earlier draft.

Figure 85 is a cross section of the full development of every previous revolution.

Figure 86 is a diagrammatical view of the true originators of the war.

Figure 87 is a diagrammatical view of the necessary consequence of the creation.

Figure 88 illustrates a 23-page pamphlet in a dark green.

Figure 89 is a block diagram of the revolutionary element in the tottering feudal society.

Figure 90 schematically illustrates the bombastic representative of the petty- bourgeois.

Figure 91 schematically illustrates an undeveloped state of both agriculture.

Figure 92 is a diagrammatical view of no other conclusion that the lot.

Figure 93 is a block diagram of a new guarantee of its impending national restoration.

Figure 94 is a schematic drawing of the socialist movement spreads among them and the demand.

Figure 95 is a perspective view of the entire surface of the globe.

Figure 96 is a schematic drawing of a decided progress of Polish industry.

Figure 97 is a perspective view of the true conditions for working-class emancipation.

Figure 98 is a block diagram of the other countries of the world.

Figure 99 is a perspective view of the same pace as the growth.

Figure 100 is a block diagram of the bourgeois sense of the word.

Figure 101 is an isometric view of the gradual , spontaneous class organisation of the proletariat.

Figure 102 is an isometric view of the programme document in the course.

Figure 103 is a block diagram of the political and intellectual history of that epoch.

Figure 104 is a schematic drawing of a full and substantial exposition of the new revolutionary.

Figure 105 is a schematic drawing of The undeveloped state of the class.

Figure 106 illustrates the first instinctive yearnings of that class.

Figure 107 schematically illustrates a progressive phase in the class.

Figure 108 illustrates the bold champion of the emancipation.

Figure 109 is an isometric view of the right man in the right place.

Figure 110 is a perspective view of the intellectual development of the mass.

Figure 111 is a perspective view of the same time markets for the sale.

Figure 112 illustrates the absolute monarchy as a counterpoise.

Figure 113 schematically illustrates these first movements of the proletariat.

Figure 114 is a diagrammatical view of the Italian proletariat as the publication.

Figure 115 is an isometric view of the little workshop of the patriarchal master.

Figure 116 is a cross section of the working class of the 19th century.[vi.

Figure 117 is a perspective view of all coercive measures against the working class.

Figure 118 is a diagrammatical view of the continued existence of bourgeois society.

Figure 119 schematically illustrates the agricultural population on the land.

Figure 120 is an isometric view of the real action of the working class.

Figure 121 illustrates a necessary condition of communist association.

Figure 122 is a perspective view of the practical absence of the family.

Figure 123 is a cross section of The rural communities of every district.

Figure 124 is a schematic drawing of the leading body of the Paris circle.

Figure 125 is a schematic drawing of The productive forces at the disposal.

Figure 126 is a perspective view of a final stage in the reorganisation.

Figure 127 is a schematic drawing of the misty realm of philosophical fantasy.

Figure 128 is a cross section of the ultimate disappearance of private property.

Figure 129 is an isometric view of the exact contrary of its real character.

Figure 130 schematically illustrates the big industry of our own day.

Figure 131 is a diagrammatical view of the self-conscious , independent movement of the immense.

Figure 132 illustrates the savage warfare of Versailles outside.

Figure 133 schematically illustrates the further consequences of the industrial revolution.

Figure 134 schematically illustrates a national bank with State capital.

Figure 135 is a diagrammatical view of the sleeping partner of the capitalist.

Figure 136 is a cross section of the final approval of the programme.

Figure 137 is a cross section of the ultimate form of the state.

Figure 138 is a cross section of the great struggle of the day.

Figure 139 is a cross section of all local markets into one world.

Figure 140 is a schematic drawing of the first step in the revolution.

Figure 141 illustrates the upper stratum of the working class.

Figure 142 is a schematic drawing of the international union of the proletariat.

Figure 143 is a diagrammatical view of every villainous meanness of this model.

Figure 144 illustrates the various wards of the town.

Figure 145 schematically illustrates the last remnants of their independence.

Figure 146 is a perspective view of the hallowed co-relation of parents and child.

Figure 147 is an isometric view of a full member of a guild.

Figure 148 is an isometric view of a vast association of the whole nation.

Figure 149 is a perspective view of the political liberation of the proletariat.

Figure 150 schematically illustrates the political conditions of the Continent.

Figure 151 illustrates The new draft for the programme.

Figure 152 is a block diagram of the peaceful abolition of private property.

Figure 153 is a cross section of the front the common interests of the entire proletariat.

Figure 154 is a perspective view of the peculiar mysteries of the Picpus nunnery[xxii.

Figure 155 is a schematic drawing of the immediate consequences of the industrial revolution.

Figure 156 is a schematic drawing of the same way in which a foreign language.

Figure 157 is a schematic drawing of the social and political aspirations of the European working.

Figure 158 is a block diagram of the first Paris Revolution in which the proletariat.

Figure 159 is a block diagram of the second paragraph of point 9 and the last sentence.

Figure 160 is a cross section of the secret societies of the time.

Figure 161 illustrates a vague aspiration after a republic.

Figure 162 is a perspective view of the direct or indirect dominance of the proletariat.

Figure 163 is a diagrammatical view of The individual members of this class.

Figure 164 schematically illustrates the proletarian differ from the handicraftsman.

Figure 165 is a diagrammatical view of the full consciousness of their historic mission.

Figure 166 is a cross section of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue.

Figure 167 is a block diagram of the monarchical form of class rule.

Figure 168 is a diagrammatical view of the common cause with the party.

Figure 169 schematically illustrates An oppressed class under the sway.

Figure 170 is a cross section of the motley feudal ties that bound man.

Figure 171 schematically illustrates The inner organisation of this primitive communistic society.

Figure 172 is a cross section of the historical conditions for the time.

Figure 173 is a cross section of the feudal organisation of agriculture and manufacturing.

Figure 174 is a perspective view of the great mass of the proletariat.

Figure 175 schematically illustrates the hostile antagonism between bourgeoisie and proletariat.

Figure 176 is a diagrammatical view of The bourgeois clap-trap about the family.

Figure 177 is a block diagram of the commercial crises that by their periodical.

Figure 178 schematically illustrates the other political parties of our time.

Figure 179 schematically illustrates the basic conditions of this society.

Figure 180 is a schematic drawing of the old cries of the restoration.

Figure 181 illustrates the reactionary character of their criticism.

Figure 182 schematically illustrates a new onslaught upon the power.

Figure 183 is a block diagram of any distinctive social validity for the working class.

Figure 184 is a perspective view of the first part of the book.

Figure 185 is an isometric view of the central seat of the old governmental power.

Figure 186 is a schematic drawing of a shameless display of gorgeous , meretricious and debased luxury.

Figure 187 is a diagrammatical view of the proletarian differ from the slave.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

The present invention is a 23-page pamphlet in a dark green. The present invention grows emancipation struggle of the proletariat. The present invention examines the movement of the working class. The invention constitutes the last great reserve of all European reaction.

In accordance with an alternative specific embodiment, the present invention found their only salvation from the proletariat. The device becomes the signal for a proletarian revolution. The device constitutes the foundation for the political and intellectual history. The present invention prepares the way for a more complete insight. The present invention brings out a book with the name. The present invention reflects the history of the modern working-class movement. The device is the act of the working class. The present invention attains its emancipation from the sway. The invention has again gathered sufficient strength for a new onslaught.

According to another embodiment, the device reflects the history of the modern working-class movement. The device is the task of the working class. The device is no better witness than this day. The invention regards their position as the working class. The invention indicates a decided progress of Polish industry. The invention is a necessity for the harmonious collaboration. The invention is the work of the working class. The device achieves the international union of the proletariat. The invention is itself the product of a long course. The invention remains no other nexus between man and man. The present invention finds its fitting complement in the most slothful indolence. The invention creates a world after its own image. The invention puts the existence of the entire bourgeois society.

In accordance with an alternative specific embodiment, the present invention endangers the existence of bourgeois property. The invention becomes an appendage of the machine. The present invention is the self-conscious , independent movement of the immense. The present invention layers the foundation for the sway. The device abolishes the right of personally acquires property. The present invention is the groundwork of all personal freedom. The present invention is the miserable character of this appropriation. The invention is the non-existence of any property. The invention deprives no man of the power. The invention finds its complement in the practical absence. The invention alter the character of that intervention. The device keeps even pace with the dissolution.

The present invention is the most radical rupture with traditional property. The device is the condition for the free development. The invention comprehends the march of modern history. The device is the necessary offspring of their own form. The present invention conceals the reactionary character of their criticism. The present invention has Clerical Socialism with Feudal Socialism. The invention is the head of this school. The device reversed this process with the profane French literature. The present invention expresses the struggle of one class. The device presupposed the existence of modern bourgeois society. The present invention is the object of the pending. The device serves the government as a weapon. The present invention proclaims its supreme and impartial contempt of all class. The invention secures the continued existence of bourgeois society. The present invention keeps even pace with the development. The present invention improves the condition of every member. The invention is a final stage in the reorganisation. The invention is the result of the whole. The invention prepares the way for your community. The invention does the proletarian differ from the slave. The device is the property of one master. The invention does the proletarian differ from the serf. The invention has the use of a piece. The invention does the proletarian differ from the handicraftsman.

According to another embodiment, the device joins the movement of the proletariat. The invention is the theory of a liberation. The device defend the cause of the proletariat. The device is the political liberation of the proletariat.

In accordance with an alternative specific embodiment, the present invention guarantees the subsistence of the proletariat. The present invention prepares the way for its transformation. The present invention is that stage of historical development. The invention is a revised edition of this earlier draft. The device draws up a programme in the form. The invention drafts a programme in the form. The device does not draw profit from any kind. The invention reduced the activity of the individual worker. The invention does this sale of the labor. The present invention accomplishes the liberation of their respective working. The present invention makes itself the first class of the country. The device annihilated the power of the aristocracy. The present invention is a lack of the necessary capital. The device takes the form of constitutional monarchy. The present invention renders the condition of the proletariat.

The present invention follow the same course as its predecessor. The invention characterizes the revolution in the whole social order. The invention is the necessary consequence of the creation. The present invention is the course of this revolution. The device is the victory of the proletariat. The present invention ensures the livelihood of the proletariat. The device requires an entirely different kind of human material. The device controlled by society as a whole.

In accordance with an alternative specific embodiment, the present invention is the influence of communist society. The present invention is the stage of historical development. The device establishes the rule of the aristocracy. The invention makes the common cause with the party.

The present invention facilitates the unification of the proletariat. The present invention popularise this programme document during the revolution. The device become the property of the state. The invention regulates the credit system in the interest. The device substitutes paper money for gold and silver. The invention become the property of the state. The present invention serves nascent bourgeois society as a mighty weapon. The present invention intensified the class antagonism between capital and labor. The invention marks a progressive phase in the class. The present invention is a regime of avowed class.

According to another embodiment, the device opens an abyss between that class. The present invention professed to rest upon the peasantry. The device upholds their economic supremacy over the working class. The device transfers the supreme seat of that regime.

According to a beneficial embodiment, the invention is the positive form of that republic. The invention is the suppression of the standing. The device becomes a reality by the destruction. The device is the embodiment of that unity.

According to a preferred embodiment, the invention serves every other employer in the search. The present invention puts the right man in the right place.

According to a preferred embodiment, the invention clogs the free movement of , society. The device supplies the republic with the basis. The present invention regulates national production upon common plan. The device takes the management of the revolution. The device is the first revolution in which the working class. The invention have put enlightenment by the schoolmaster. The device solves in favor of the peasant. The present invention stops the spread of the rinderpest. The invention display their patriotism by organizing police. The present invention is the abolition of the nightwork. The present invention hampered the real action of the working class. The device retraces this dissolution in The Origin. The present invention carries brazen historical irony as a result. The device is the seat of the emigr� government.

What is claimed is:

1. A method for becoming a property owner himself, comprising:
a previous edition;
a 23-page pamphlet; and
a German edition.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said previous edition comprises the sleeping partner of the capitalist.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said 23-page pamphlet comprises the further consequences of the industrial revolution.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said German edition comprises the special privileges of the nobility.

5. A device for becoming a property owner himself, comprising:
a feudal system;
a mechanical loom;
an own house; and
a parliamentary stronghold.

6. The device of claim 5, wherein said feudal system comprises a national bank with State capital.

7. The device of claim 5, wherein said mechanical loom comprises the political form at last discovered.

8. The device of claim 5, wherein said own house comprises the bold champion of the emancipation.

9. The device of claim 5, wherein said parliamentary stronghold comprises the main consequences of the abolition.

By John Ohno on September 20, 2016.

[Canonical link](https://medium.com/@enkiv2/a-method-and-device-for-becoming- a-property-owner-himself-1c9488790f80)

Exported from Medium on September 18, 2020.

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Century of the Self§

Watching Century of the Self, first time I have heard of the Kent State shootings. Astonishing – the US state firing on an unarmed student protest. According to the documentary, it had a suffocating effect on the protest movement.

Final episode of Century of the Self. The culmination of psychoanalysis and public relations inserting themselves into politics, with Clinton and Blair basing most of their policies on feelings-based focus groups of swing voters. Selfish desires trumping feelings of altruism, denigration of welfare, individualism over society. The populace treated as needy consumers, not engaged citizens.

Really good documentary by Adam Curtis. Entertaining and informative.

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Conversations with Myself§

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conversations with myself§

Blogs as thinking out loud and conversations (also with oneself). Wiki as its accumulated residue.

—-Ton Zylstra (The Blog and Wiki Combo)

A space for conversations with yourself are important. I tend to have my conversations with myself in my wiki more than on my blog.

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Deconstructing Yourself§

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Distract the fuck out of yourself§

Context§

I struggled with depression during high school and early college. I developed a few main tactics to fight my depression and ended up on top. For anyone reading who is currently anywhere on the depression spectrum, know that it WILL get better. But the fight might really suck before that point. If you want to talk to someone who may have been where you are, email me at davidsmithsecure@gmail.com and we can have a casual convo. I’m serious, don’t be afraid to reach out.

Introduction§

This isn’t a tactic I used directly during high school or college - rather, it’s a boiled down game-like derivative of a couple tactics I had. I call it the "distract the fuck out of yourself" game.

It’s a mental exercise you can use to salvage happiness (or neutrality) from a negative mood swing.

Again, I don’t know if this applies directly to depressive episodes - after all, we’re all different, and something that works for me might not work for you. However, this is something I’ve been trying more lately, and it does work with abating negative mood swings. I’m not saying depression is just negative mood swings - it’s a lot worse than that. But you could experience negative mood swings while you are in a depression, and this may be able to help with that. Ok, enough hedging, let’s get to it.

3 Steps - 3 Fights§

In order to stop a negative mood swing, you must be willing to fight. There are 3 total steps, and each step requires a fight. If you win the fight in a step, you can move on to the next one. If you lose the fight at any point, you descend into a bad mood.

Step 1: identify the negative mood swing analytically§

The fight in Step 1 is actually catching that your mood has changed. You need to know your body’s signals - how does your gut feel when you start to slip into a bad mood? Does your brain start thinking in different patterns?

Once you realize your mood has changed, you must stop this train of thought that you’re in (which is difficult) and retrace your mental steps back to what you THINK is negatively affecting your mood.

After a few rounds of this identification, you get better at identifying what sets you off. My negative mood swings almost always start when I think about something that affects me in a negative way. Maybe it’s that I have to do work later and I won’t be able to have the freedom I want. Maybe it’s because someone said something to me using a tone I didn’t like. No matter how it happens, the first fight is identifying that your mood has begun to swing and retracing the mental path back towards that point.

Step 2: fully decide that you want to NOT be in that negative mood, then§

analyze your path

Once your brain gets the idea that it "wants" to be in a negative mood, the next fight is against itself. Once you start to fight against the mood, you may end up feeling "robbed". You may feel as though you are missing out on something. You need to fully commit yourself to fighting the bad mood swing, and you need to ensure that it is not what you want to think about right now.

Then, after you’ve committed to the path towards good, you need to analyze WHY your mood has worsened. Try to analyze WHY what happened puts you in a bad mood:

  • Why did thinking about that make me unhappy?
  • Which of my main influences caused me to feel this way?
  • Why do I get upset about this specific stimulus?

Note: you don’t need to find a concrete answer here. Just toss out a couple suggestions to yourself then move on to Step 3. After all, you’ve won the fight in Step 2 just by getting this far.

Step 3: distract the fuck out of yourself§

You’ve identified your mood swing catalyst and done a tiny bit of self analysis. Now is the time to NOT DWELL ON IT! Change your mental path to something entirely unrelated. Spending too much time on self analysis can actually make the problem worse through overthinking. And the best way to not dwell on something is distracting the fuck out of yourself.

Distracting the fuck out of yourself is the best way to not dwell on something that makes you unhappy. There are a TON of different ways you can achieve this; you’ll have to find the ones that work best for you. Here are a few of mine to help you start brainstorming:

  • You’re a human and you live in this weird universe and isn’t the concept of space cool? I wonder what’s happening on Mars right now. Or Pluto.
  • Think about a cool movie you liked as a kid. I like to think about the Incredibles.
  • Think about what you want to eat this weekend. Oddly specific.
  • Literally anything else.

No matter what you end up thinking about, you have to start being careful again. At this point, you are exiting the game; you need to be ready to jump back to Step 1 if you happen to stumble upon another bad mood catalyst.

This is not a catch-all solution§

Negative moods can get deep within you very quickly before you catch them and begin Step 1. Sometimes, some of that negative mood lingers (just hanging out in your body) and you can’t really do anything about it. This is why I said this game may just result in neutrality instead of happiness. But if you’ve gotten through Step 3, then you can go on with your life assured that your mood is more relatively positive than it would’ve been without playing this game. But always be ready to play the game, because you never know when it’ll come up next.

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Do not remain nameless to yourself§

rw-book-cover

Metadata§

Highlights§

  • The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to.
  • No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
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Finals Week Note to Self§

There is a way to understand

Do not lose yourself in despair

Simply look and learn!

Take the time, fool.

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How to Think for Yourself§

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Metadata§

Highlights§

  • I wish someone had told me about this distinction when I was a kid, because it’s one of the most important things to think about when you’re deciding what kind of work you want to do. Do you want to do the kind of work where you can only win by thinking differently from everyone else? I suspect most people’s unconscious mind will answer that question before their conscious mind has a chance to. I know mine does.
  • When I meet someone who knows a lot about something unusual (which includes practically everyone, if you dig deep enough), I try to learn what they know that other people don’t. There are almost always surprises here. It’s a good way to make conversation when you meet strangers, but I don’t do it to make conversation. I really want to know.
  • To go beyond this general advice, we need to look at the internal structure of independent-mindedness at the individual muscles we need to exercise, as it were. It seems to me that it has three components: fastidiousness about truth, resistance to being told what to think, and curiosity.
  • Another way to increase your curiosity is to indulge it, by investigating things you’re interested in. Curiosity is unlike most other appetites in this respect: indulging it tends to increase rather than to sate it. Questions lead to more questions.
  • Perhaps, if your goal is to discover novel ideas, your motto should not be "do what you love" so much as "do what you’re curious about."
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Myself§

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  • #public
  • https://deconstructingyourself.com/meditation-emotions-bio-emotive-framework-douglas-tataryn.html
  • Meditation, emotions, and the Bio-emotive framework with Douglas Tataryn
  • Background:
    • Started as 15 year old with breath work, meditating for several hours.
    • Every day at university he got by with one hour of sleep extremely quickly going into meditative state that was very efficient at restoring.
      • He had a lot of samadhi but not sati.
    • His wife was teaching sacred movement in Manitoba. And there’s a whole community there. And they’re related to some kind of Tibetan lineage also worked with Culadasa and did a lot of research on psychology and became very strong at methodology.
  • Ken Wilber and four stages
    • Enlightenment is not the end turn, you can still do dumb stuff
      • sleeping with students
      • abusing money
    • So you need to #**Four Facets**
      • wake up
        • Theravada Buddhism
      • clean up
        • Christianity, Mahayana Buddhism
        • We’re able to observe our minds at a very deep level while we’re meditating, but we’re not able to be in those states, while we’re interacting socially with others.
          • ​I thought that you kind of could get that kind of insight, with walking meditation and always seeing your emotions from a distance, but maybe those states are not as deep or, or pure.
        • And so, some of this developmental and cleansing and stuff, it’s possible that you kind of see through it and so it becomes invisible to the meditation and you can gain enlightenment without actually having to deal with it.
          • Podcast about Culadasa, and his sex scandal
      • grow up
        • developmental psychology
        • something new, that there isn’t a good spiritual fit for
      • show up (Doug says look around)
        • shamanism, Tibetan traditions
        • engaging with the whole cosmos and all the creatures and layers there.
  • trauma
    • when you’re very young
      • we are very intimately in touch with our emotions
      • When trauma happens, you tend to incorporate those emotion, feeling beliefs, into your personality at a level where it’s very difficult to untangle
      • Traditionally, people shut down emotionally at a certain age.
      • Although they kept craving some kind of recognition or love, when they got that it didn’t update their core beliefs, and it didn’t heal, the kind of gap that they had.
      • Younger generations tend to not have those same shutting down of emotions, which is causing other kinds of issues.
        • ​Is this specific to the US or certain groups in North America? What kinds of problems is it causing? #q
    • things that happen later,
      • you can process them through purification meditation.
  • There are four core emotions:
    • happy
    • sad
    • angry
    • fearful
  • But he came up with nine types of feelings.
  • And he also talks about a book, something like kindling. The apparently it’s about affirmations and how they resonate with you.
  • Resources
    • He has a lot of resources on this website
      • book
      • some online courses six stage,
      • An Nedera Process to work through your emotion
  • Concept of circling, which apparently is big in the Bay Area, and how that can leave people in a very raw and vulnerable state without a way of healing (without guidance)
  • Developmental stages from Hanzi Freinacht
    • Pre-modern
    • modern
    • postmodern
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analyzing myself life logging is super important what things am i interested in processing? source

https://activitywatch.net/ good resource for tracking Jethro's self tracking in plain text

doing things digitally automatically logs data for the timeline feels wrong that data can be forgotten and lost forever want to have the choice whether to forget or remember, and want to be able to access forgotten memories

ultimately, i want this to be an effort to accomplish two things:

  • reduce the services i use

  • connect all of the services i use

and i want to be able to interface with all of them

eventually, i would like to be able to open this ecosystem to others, and in doing so allow people to share events, memories and experiences

text messages

i want to see everything i have sent and to whom i have sent it to

purchases

i want to be able to track all of my purchases

health

consumption

track precisely what i am eating and the assoc. information

exercise

what exercise am i doing? what does it change about my health?

general

sleep, mental competency/sluggishness? some way to reflect on longer term progress

env

temp during sleep weather conditions information

blood

tracking blood levels is best way to deduce health composition

sleep

sleep time, health etc

github

  • code progress

  • what projects do i work on? when? how much do i do?

gps

where have i been? why? how?

places

where did i probably spend my time? what places am i interested in? what did i visit?

mail

what mail do i get? what htings go through mail?

google

google gives lots of good analysis, like browsing and youtube watch history

music

what do i listen to? why? how?

photos

  • document what i see

  • assoc with location

  • assoc with sound

  • assoc with time and other things

front to back: time and location taken to ig and blog post

shell

what goes on

ideas

  • weight

  • sports

  • sick today

  • mood

  • good/bad

  • what i learned

  • heart rate

  • steps

  • eating habits

the more i track the more i know about myself the more time i save the more efficient i become

biofeedback vibes

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72501-w does perceived health matter more than actual health? this is just one study but nature is huge.

tracking

constant feedback blood glucose notes on n-back pill stack gool generated time log tracking body temperature some fun time keeping and tracking utilities https://github.com/seanbreckenridge/HPI

Oura Ring: the most accurate sleep and activity tracker

https://wakatime.com/ tracking time spent in various editors to get programming metrics!

https://kern.io/dashboard brilliant idea: personal tracking of tons of different metrics publicly available! okrs for personal use are great too. Hackathon

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Familiar of Zero isn’t just a 2006 anime — it is the most 2006 anime I’ve ever seen. It’s the kind of uninspired…


Saving the magic system of Familiar of Zero from itself§

Familiar of Zero isn’t just a 2006 anime — it is the most 2006 anime I’ve ever seen. It’s the kind of uninspired extruded-fantasy-harem-crap we always complain about, in its purest and most unadulterated form. Its protagonist is without any particular traits, other than an over-the-top lecherousness that while it sticks out now was more or less par for the course a decade ago for harem shows. The romantic lead is the kind of poor-little-rich-girl tsundere we wouldn’t see properly fleshed out and given characterization until Toradora. There’s a large supporting cast of generic archetypes. The most interesting and original character may be Colbert, a plot device of a balding, kindly but boring professor who is also prone to chasing after myths — kind of like if your high school social studies teacher spent his free time trying to find Atlantis — but he is mostly notable for how little he resembles Stephen Colbert. It’s a spectacularly forgettable show, notable mostly for how stupid every single character appears to be. But what it does have is an interesting and well fleshed-out magic system.

That is, until the plot starts.

You see, the way magic works in this world is that each spell works with one of the four classical greek elements. Even simple spells that are theoretically identical are completely different between elements: the spell to illuminate the tip of a wand would have nothing in common in the mechanics of casting between a method using air and a method using earth, even though the result would be identical. A ward or seal created by fire magic can only be undone by fire magic. This creates a pretty stable set of parameters. Imagine this from the perspective of game design for some MMORPG: even if every player character is a mage, you would expect a party to by necessity contain a member specializing in each type of magic. To the extent that attack spells are used, they are undone by attack spells from an opposing element, usually — fire can be defeated by water or redirected by wind, etc.

And then, we’re introduced to the fifth element, void, which is incredibly powerful and can beat anything. Because that’s the only way our protagonists can be put into interesting situations: by deus ex machina.

Ignoring void magic, we have the possibility of multi-classing. The idea is that extremely talented people can reach the limit of advancement in one form of magic and then start from the bottom in another form. If you can master three of the four forms of magic, you become a triangle mage, and can cast spells that weave together the three elements in such a way that it would be very difficult for three high level mages of the individual elements to undo; only a triangle mage specializing in the same three elements, or a square mage who has mastered all four, can undo it.

Void magic is in-born, can’t be properly studied, operates mostly by intuition, and is incompatible with all the other forms. So it breaks everything.

The world in which this show takes place is a kind of extension of feudal europe, in which all those capable of magic are considered a part of the aristocracy, and where rival kingdoms are in politically precarious situations, with webs of secret alliances, spies infiltrating each other’s kingdoms, and aristocrats trying to foment populist uprisings among the peasantry. In other words, a fairly realistic depiction of a society where a whole class of people have magic powers passed on along the bloodline. We have plenty of call-outs to actual historical events, including a revolution in the britain-expy called Albion wherein a guy named Cromwell kills a prince named Wales and turns the country into a dictatorship. Adding intrigue are various magical devices that can temporarily animate corpses or cause people to act against their will while in line of sight.

And then, the void magic is powerful enough to kill all the conspirators. Accidentally. With the help of a world war two era fighter plane. This show keeps generating promise and then screwing it up.

Without the main characters, we have the setup for a really interesting game or story here. We have a complex but internally consistent set of rules for magical warfare — one that rewards teamwork at the lower levels and rewards achievement at the endgame, encouraging people to max out their level up to four times. We have interesting sets of alliances and conflicts: nations at war with each other and themselves, spy networks, the double-cross system. We have devices that have interesting abilities and limitations: the ability to temporarily control a corpse, the ability to control a living being at short range and under line of sight. We have an interesting combat system, with familiars tanking for mages and an interaction between elements. I could imagine something similar to a cross between WoW and Planetside — an ongoing war of small-scale conquest along the edges of domains, powered by a steady supply of fresh blood from strongholds where mages in training follow quest lines to develop their skills.

All we need is somebody to take advantage of this, instead of breaking it in the name of making a generic hero’s journey story.

By John Ohno on August 22, 2016.

[Canonical link](https://medium.com/@enkiv2/saving-the-magic-system-of- familiar-of-zero-from-itself-869685db4ae9)

Exported from Medium on September 18, 2020.

📚 Agora node [[true to self]] (pulled by the Agora)
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