QOTE : 'It's super inspiring in general, but he also presents a game he made to teach programming without the players realizing until it's too late and they're already wizards' - cblgh
LINK : http://critical-gaming.com/blog/2008/8/5/folded-level-design.html
TYPE : article
DATE : 12018-07-03
TAGS : gamedev, inspiration
QOTE : 'I want to focus on a type of level design that is like climbing a tall tree to rescue a cat; going one way provides one kind of challenge (ie. climbing a tree), and getting back is a different challenge that builds upon the original challenge by adding a layer of depth/complexity (ie. climbing down a tree with a cat in one hand). I call this kind of level design folded level design.'
> Koan: 'A paradoxical anecdote or riddle without a solution, used in Zen Buddhism to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning and provoke enlightenment.'
> Anki: memory tool/app. Manually entered questions and answers. The app repeatedly asks you every question, every time you know the answer the duration it waits before asking that question again doubles. If you forget an answer then the wait duration resets to one day.
> Memex: external memory tool. 'Data storage and retrieval system'.
> The good quote is 'The proper exchange of ideas between free individuals keeps tyranny at bay.'
& ...however media centralization and widely popular material escapism distorts societal discourse.
> A the related quote is: '...the problem with hierarchies is that people stack up at the bottom and that they tilt toward tyranny across time'.
> Fuller context: 'If you're going to values some things more than others then hierarchies are inevitable. You have to value some things more than others or you don't have anything valuable." "Like beauty or strength or something." "Or competence. ...whatever it happens to be. The ability to play the flute. It doesn't matter what it is. Obviously if you value music you are going to value some musicians more than others because some are better. So you have to value things in order to more forward in life, and you have to value things in order to have something valuable to produce. But if you play out the value in a social landscape you produce a hierarchy. The problem with producing a hierarchy is that a small number of people are going to be more successful than the majority, and a very large number of people are not going to be successful at all - at that particular thing. It's inevitable.
& ...So you say "we have to put up with that because we need to pursue things of value". OK fine, so that is the right wing perspective - the hierarchies are justifiable and necessary.
& The left wing perspective is 'yeah but wait a minute, the problem with hierarchies is that people stack up at the bottom and that they tilt toward tyranny across time' and that's also true.
& You need that dialect in society between the right wing that says you know "we need the hierarchies and they are useful and you should be grateful for them, they structure you and give you form and provide value"
& and the left that says "yeah but they exclude people, people stack up at the bottom and that is dangerous to the hierarchy itself, it means that people might not have opportunity" and you have to say yes to that (too).
& The problem comes -and this is the situation we are in right now- where the radical left-ists (and this is mostly a problem that really permeates the Universities) say "Yeah but all hierarchies are just tyrannical power", it's like oh no their not. Hierarchies are based on competence in a functioning society and mostly our society functions... ...That doesn't mean that hierarchies don't tilt toward self interest and tyranny across time but that's a bad thing. Even a bad thing from a conservative perspective. There's room for the left because the poor will always be with us and the dispossessed need a voice, not least because there are talented people among the dispossessed and if they are stuck at zero everyone suffers because we don't have access to their talents. It's bad use of resources. On the right its like "no, we need the damn value hierarchies, we need to be grateful for our traditions and structures because they stop us from degenerating into chaos."'
> Circular economy: 'is a regenerative system in which resource input and waste, emission, and energy leakage are minimised by slowing, closing, and narrowing energy and material loops. This can be achieved through long-lasting design, maintenance, repair, reuse, remanufacturing, refurbishing, and recycling. This is in contrast to a linear economy which is a "take, make, dispose" model of production.'
> "The average person lives about 75 years. Now then, I multiplied 75 times 52 and came up with 3,900, which is the number of Saturdays that the average person has in his lifetime. It took me until I was 55 years old to think about this in any detail, and by that time I had lived through over 2,800 Saturdays."
& "Now let me tell you one last thought before I sign off and take my lovely wife out to breakfast. This morning, I took the very last marble out of the container. I figure if I make it until next Saturday, then I have been given a little extra time."
> Memory Palace: 'the subject memorizes the layout of some building, or the arrangement of shops on a street, or any geographical entity which is composed of a number of discrete loci. When desiring to remember a set of items the subject 'walks' through these loci in their imagination and commits an item to each one by forming an image between the item and any feature of that locus. Retrieval of items is achieved by 'walking' through the loci, allowing the latter to activate the desired items.'
> Horseshit problem: a problem that seems existentially bad but is later solved trivially/indirectly by technology. The name refers to horse manue starting to be a major problem when horses were extensively used for transport, their manure ending up everywhere - poisoning water wells etc. When the car was invented and mass adopted it was suddenly no longer an issue.
> 111hz: '...Findings of MRI scans suggest that at exactly 111hz, the brain switches off the prefrontal cortex, deactivating the language center, and temporaryly switches from left to right-sided dominance, that is responsible for intuition, creativity, holistic processing, inducing a state of meditation or a trance. Further research directed by Prof. Robert Jahn has tested acoustic behaviour in megalithic sites in the UK, showing that they sustained a strong resonance at a sound frequency between 95 and 120 heartz.' ...can't find source of the 'MRI' studies. Prof. Robert Jahn seems controversial. None-the-less interesting.
> Zombie: 'in the philosophical usage of the term, is putatively a being that is exactly like you in every respect—identical behavior, identical speech, identical brain; every atom and quark in exactly the same position, moving according to the same causal laws of motion—except that your zombie is not conscious.'
QOTE : 'The most important thing you can do is to get into an iteration cycle where you can measure the impact of your work, have a hypothesis about how making changes will affect those variables, and ship changes regularly. It doesn't even matter that much what the content is - it's the iteration of hypothesis, changes, and measurement that will make you better at a faster rate than anything else we have seen.' - Gabe Newell
LINK : https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Gaben/comments/5olhj4/hi_im_gabe_newell_ama/
> 'Child of divorce, professional who dealt with divorcing couples for many years, Adult who went through a divorce, remarried and volunteer counseling/mentoring for couples today.
& Here are the most common mistakes I've seen (my own as well as collectively) in the failed and struggling marriages I've seen:
& One or both spouses have unresolved childhood baggage issues that will rear its head in their adult relationships. Examples of these include (but not limited to) physical or emotional abuse/neglect in the home; sexual abuse; one or both parents had substance abuse/addiction issues; one or both partners came from a divorced or single parent household. Among the many reasons why this is such a significant factor is if you grow up in a dysfunctional environment, you have no idea how dysfunctional and unhealthy it really is. To you, its normal, it is all you've ever known. So if Mom and Dad resolved conflict by getting drunk, yelling at each other and then not speaking for days, guess what you have a chance of modeling as an adult in your own relationships?
& Understanding what "marriage as a priority" really means. When you get married, your marriage has to be the main priority in your life. Not your career, not your spouse (i.e. don't put them on a pedestal), not your kids, not your hobbies or your personal fitness. The fact is, when you get married, you no longer get to call all of the shots. Gotten used to staying up all night playing XBOX with your boys on weekends? Not going to work in a marriage for an extended period of time. You're going to have to accept the fact that if you want to have a healthy marriage, compromise is your new word of the day. In some cases you may have to give things up entirely, or learn to say "no for now." While this often tends to be more of a struggle for men, women can also struggle with this issue. I'm not saying that getting married means giving up you completely, or kiss all of your favorite activities goodbye. What I am saying is, if you want your marriage to be healthy, you now have someone else in your life who gets an equal (not dominant--equal) say in how you spend your free time.
& Poor communication skills. A shockingly high number of adults lack basic healthy communication skills and conflict resolution skills. Its heart breaking to have conversations with struggling couples who won't speak to each other with a kind word for any reason. Both spouses should feel that their marriage is the one safe place in the world for each other. Unfortunately, in many instances, it is the last place a spouse can go for emotional safety. If you don't feel your partner is your first friend, your best friend, your most trusted friend, then something is broken in your communications with each other.
& Vastly different backgrounds. Don't get me wrong. Anyone can be successfully married to someone else if both people are committed to it and willing to work on it. But most of the time, that's just not the case. Societal/familial pressures are real, and it is important to assess them if you find yourself in a relationship that is impacted by them. Are you dating a trust fund baby/very wealthy child and you are the Jack Dawson? Tread carefully. It makes a great movie, but statistically, Rose winds up marrying Cal far more often than running off with Jack, because she doesn't want to deal with the family pressure or get cut off financially. Sorry, that's reality, not the movies.
& Similar to different backgrounds, different motivations in life. Do you know what your partner wants out of life? Do they aspire to be an artist who welds clown sculptures out of mufflers? That's great, but will it support the two of you, and if it won't, will you be okay supporting them while they're making Pennywise the Dual Exhaust Killer? Do they want to be a stay at home parent? Are you okay being the sole breadwinner? What if it is the reverse?
& One. Union. Combined. Together. This notion is one that I see a lot of guys--especially high wage earners who are the sole income for the family--stumble over. Whether you are religious or not, the fact is when you get married you are no longer two individuals. You're one. The law sees you that way, the tax code (at least in the US) sees you that way, and society sees you that way. There is no such thing as "mine and yours" in a marriage. There is only "ours." The faster you get that concept nailed down, the better off you'll be. I've seen many marriages collapse just over this issue alone.
& Marriage is not an event, its a journey. So many couples stop trying to pursue each other after the wedding day. Guys and girls do this. Stereotypically/historically, men tend to focus on their careers/making money; women tend to focus on raising the children and/or managing the household. (I realize not in every situation) Both spouses stop taking time to compliment each other, appreciate each other, go out on dates, weekend getaways, or generally just spending time chasing after each other. They take each other for granted and begin to drift apart. "We just fell out of love" is one of the most common phrases I hear in couples struggling, and the sad thing is, its one of the easiest traps to avoid.
& Friends and family around the marriage. This is especially hard for people who come from dysfunctional families. When you get married, your new spouse automatically gets moved to the front of the line. In front of your parents, siblings, lifelong besties, etc. They're great to have in your life, but all of them have to take a distant back seat to your new spouse. If you're a guy who has had a doting mother all your life and she's told you what to do, who to marry, where to go to college, etc, you have a tough job ahead of you. The Monster-In-Law stereotype exists for a reason. If your new wife turns pale when your Mom's number pops up on your cellphone, you need to talk to your wife and find out what boundaries she'd like to have installed. If you are Daddy's little girl and nobody has ever been good enough in your Dad's eyes, its time for you to tell Dad that you're so grateful for his love and support, but Jim is more than good enough in your eyes, so you need him to be in his eyes, too. And sadly, if you have friends or family members who are toxic to you or your marriage, you may be forced to make a very difficult decision in your life. Anyone who sits around bitching about how much they hate their life, their spouse, their kids or how you're going to eventually feel the same way about yours--put distance between you as fast as you possibly can. We tend to adopt the attitudes of the company we keep. So if you spend all your time with negative people...guess where you're going to be mentally?
& Date to establish trust. Time is actually your friend, not your enemy. Do not ignore ANY red flag you see in a relationship. Examine it for what it is, then determine if it is something you can work through with the other person, or is it something they refuse to acknowledge or deal with? If you're dating someone who is selfish and they refuse to see it, they will not magically become unselfish because you were kind enough to marry them. Red Flags ignored in dating will become the rocks upon which your marriage boat smashes in the coming storms. If there are multiple red flags and they won't talk to you about any of them, walk away. It doesn't matter if you've already moved in, share the bank account, the dog, and a car. Get out now. If they're not willing to work on things that impact the security of a relationship today, you can count on them not working on them after you get married.
& Marriage is not easy. It requires a lot of work sometimes, even when you are both on the same page, have great communication, great sex (which will happen very easily if the rest of the relationship is healthy by the way) and great chemistry. People get sick, they get laid off, their family members die, children get sick, get hurt in accidents, friends have affairs, get divorced...life is challenging and it impacts our relationships, sometimes in ways we're not expecting or prepared for. If you're not willing to value your marriage above everything else in your life, its going to be really hard for it to survive the day in and day out challenges of living.'
LINK : https://np.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/52h1h8/whats_the_most_common_mistake_people_make_when/d7kyny9?context=3
> MQTT: 'MQTT is a machine-to-machine (M2M)/"Internet of Things" connectivity protocol. It was designed as an extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport. It is useful for connections with remote locations where a small code footprint is required and/or network bandwidth is at a premium.'
CHART.JS
PERS : autophagy
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : https://www.chartjs.org/
TYPE : tool
DATE : 12018-07-19
TAGS : code, web
CSS UTIL CLASSES
PERS : stephen
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : https://adamwathan.me/css-utility-classes-and-separation-of-concerns/
> A long time ago there was a small, but prosperous town in the middle of a great plain. The town saw plenty of foreigners passing through with exotic wears, stopping on their way from the great cities that surely lay far beyond the horizon. As a prominent way-point, the town found itself never in want, not only of the necessities of life, but of many of the luxuries as well. So one can easily imagine their reaction to the unsightly old hag who strode into the town on a bright autumn afternoon carrying a sack full of a dozen dusty books.
& "All the knowledge and wisdom of the world," She said, "Only one sack of gold!" The men and women at the marketplace chuckled at the old woman. A whole sack of gold for twelve dusty books? It didn't matter what was in them, that was an outrageous price! Their own books usually sold for a gold piece each, at best, and that only for the highest quality binding and printing. A trading village was no place to sell books, besides, considering how busy everyone is with commerce all the time; most books were bought for show.
& The woman tried to peddle her goods all day, but found it impossible to attract the attention of even the most credulous buyer. "Leave me alone," one would say. "I have plenty of books already," said another. "Obviously you don't know everything, or you would have left already" the more snarky in the town would opine.
& Finally, as the sun was setting, the woman approached one of the other vendors and bought a bit of firewood. She dug a small pit, placed six of the books in, along with the wood, and started a fire right in the middle of the marketplace. This attracted the Mayor, who scrammed the woman out of the village, but not before the books had burned to ashes.
& Winter came, and the town was hit hard by blizzards lasting well into March. They were a frugal lot, however, and always planned for such a contingency, and so they braved the winter well. Summer brought the normal volume of trade, and the town was back to normal by the next autumn, when the old woman returned again.
& "Not you again," the Mayor said as she entered the town. "Are you still selling the same nonsense?"
& "If by 'nonsense' you mean all the knowledge and wisdom of the world," she replied, "No. I now only have half of it remaining. I have changed the price, however." At this the townspeople nodded at each other sarcastically. Of course she's changed the price, they thought, because she only has six dusty old books left. "The remaining books are only two sacks of gold!" The woman sat down among the merchants and laid the books out in front of her, waiting for any takers.
& "You must be joking," A man said, "You can't charge twice as much for half the merchandise! We are a trading town, well-versed in business and exchange. You can't expect us to buy books of such low quality for a price so high!" The woman merely sat there, and when the day ended without any takers - but with considerably more jeering than in the previous year - she repeated her ritual and burned half the books. The morning after the woman left, a few young people from the town ruffled through the dying embers of the fire, searching for an odd page, but all was ashes once again.
& Another year passed, and this was a hard one. Again the winter was long, and harvests around the countryside were poor. The summer trading caravans were less frequent than they had been in decades. In the end, the city managed, as it always had, but there were whispers that another hard winter would spell serious trouble.
& When the old woman arrived in autumn, she was expected. The Mayor greeted her personally, "Madame, we would like to look at your books. We will not be able to offer you two sacks of gold right away, but we are ready to form a committee to investigate the worth, and, in a few weeks, we will be able to make a suitable offer."
& The old woman looked back at him. "These three remaining books contain a quarter of all the knowledge and wisdom in the world, and I cannot part with them for anything less than four sacks of gold."
& "Four sacks of gold is out of the question, madame, but if you would consider our offer..."
& The old woman simply shook her head, and proceeded to burn two of the three remaining books, leaving the town to fend for itself for another winter.
& When she returned again the following year the town was desperate. Trade had all but ceased, and the granaries were less than half full. The winter was just around the corner, and already it was cold and windy, though the summer had only just ended. The whole town anxiously awaited the old woman, ready to swallow their pride and purchase her remaining book.
& The woman entered the town cautiously, holding the book in front of her. "Are you now ready to buy my book. It contains one-twelfth of the knowledge and wisdom of the world, and it is exceedingly valuable. I can only part with it for twelve sacks of gold."
& The Mayor looked back, "We had only budgeted for six." The woman started digging her fire-pit. "Now hold on," the Mayor said, "We can give you ten, but we need something to get us through next summer's trading season." The woman kept digging. As she placed the book into the pit, along with a little kindling, the Mayor finally gave in. "You win," he said, "We'll give you twelve. It better be worth it."
& "It is," the woman replied. "You should have seen the rest of it."
NOTE : Douglas Adam’s Last Chance To See. The story of the aquisition of the Sibylline Books
ETIDORHPA
PERS : neauoire
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/eti/index.htm
LINK : http://sebastiansiverand.com/library/NoK.pdf
FILE : 12018-07-19_NoK.pdf
TYPE : book
TAGS : occult
NOTE : 'Notes on Kabbalah' - Colin Low
UI PATTERN SMART
PERS : yoshuawuyts
SRCE : knowledge
LINK : https://www.awwwards.com/mastering-ui-patterns-for-smarter-design.html
DONE : true
OCTOBER
PERS : alx
SRCE : Merveilles
NOTE : 'October' - Chine Meiville
TYPE : book
QOTE
> It's very easy to read, extremely lucid
& The problem is, it's still a difficult read
& At least at the moment, I'm early in the book, so there are a lot of things going on, some of them horrifying
& A mix of xenophobes, fascists, and antisemites did some horrible things to toddlers :c
& Traditional teaching of the history of the revolution in russia kind of ignores the horrific things that were happening that led up to it
& I'm also going through the TTC russian history course ('From Peter the Great to Gorbachev'), and as far as I can tell, they completely pass over the mass protests and the sheer disregard for human life that the previous regime had (edited)
& I recommend it, but it's a difficult read for the same sorts of reasons that "Why I don't talk [to white people] about race" is a difficult read
BLACK TRUTHS
LINK : https://dreamflesh.com/post/2017/black-truths-jordan-peterson/
TYPE : article
NOTE : Critique of Jordan Peterson
QOTE
> Important
& "(This is the core of the bill: making sure people aren’t denied employment or housing, for example, because of their gender expression or identity. The pronouns stuff is supplementary, besides being misrepresented by Peterson.)"
> Funny
& "We should note that Peterson is very comfortable with non-binary approaches to categories he sees as forming the roots of civilisation — when it suits him. In another interview he says:"
& "People often ask me if I believe in God. I don’t like that question. First of all, it’s an attempt to box me in, in a sense. The reason it’s an attempt to box me in is because the question is asked so I can be firmly placed on one side of a binary argument. The reason I don’t like to answer it is, (a) I don’t like to be boxed in, and (b) because I don’t know what the person means by ‘believe’ or ‘God’. And they think they know. And the probability that they construe ‘belief’ and construe ‘God’ the same way I do is virtually zero."
> Summary
& "The root dynamic of the clash here, though, seems to be between the fact that legislation like C-16 is specifically meant to protect a minority who often suffer at the hands of rigid categories that work for the majority, whereas Peterson’s general fight is with the radicalism in postmodernism which seeks to completely dismantle those categories. Peterson sees the latter at work in the former, which I think is a paranoid overstatement."
> "In trying to get an easy-to-grasp handle on all this, it’s interesting that Peterson himself supplied me with the crucial tools. As with his opposition to binary ideas of belief in God, it’s testimony to the fact that he’s worth listening to for insight, even if you have to wade through some bile, and make some connections which he doesn’t manage."
> "Peterson isn’t intending harm, or intending to undermine people. But — as he’ll be the first to point out in other contexts, e.g. communism — good intent is never enough. One has to pay attention to systemic unintended harms. There’s some truth in what Peterson is saying (alongside the distortions and occasional falsehoods). But even this truth is sometimes — especially in the transgender debate — blackened by a certain blindness."
> Conclusion
& "There are serious and present threats to stability and social cohesion, but they owe far more to shifts in economics and ecology than to shifts in sexuality and gender. Postmodernism needs critiquing, since, as David Kidner showed, it’s implicated in our ecological crisis. But it needs better, less blind critics than Peterson. And freedom and civilisation need better, more far-sighted champions."
DONE : true
EGREGORE
TERM
> Egregore: 'is an occult concept representing a "thoughtform" or "collective group mind", an autonomous psychic entity made up of, and influencing, the thoughts of a group of people. The symbiotic relationship between an egregore and its group has been compared to the more recent, non-occult concepts of the corporation (as a legal entity) and the meme.' 'a kind of group mind that is created when people consciously come together for a common purpose.'
NATURE AND PSYCHE
TYPE : book
LINK : https://dreamflesh.com/review/book/nature-and-psyche/
TAGS : env, politics, psychology
LEARN ANYTHING
TYPE : tool
LINK : https://learn-anything.xyz/
TAGS : research
DONE : true
REVI : true
LIKE A DOG ON A LEASH
TYPE : article
LINK : https://medium.com/@NikitaVoloboev/like-a-dog-on-a-leash-c0cdb8839079
TAGS : privacy
NOTE : Why privacy
DONE : true
PRIVACY RESPECTING TOOLS
TYPE : list
LINK : https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/privacy-respecting#readme
TAGS : privacy
DONE : true
PRIVACY TOOLS
TYPE : list
LINK : https://www.privacytools.io/
TAGS : privacy
DONE : true
PRISM BREAK
TYPE : list
LINK : https://prism-break.org/
TAGS : privacy
DONE : true
PROJECT BASED LEARNING
TYPE : article
LINK : https://medium.com/@NikitaVoloboev/project-based-learning-e511641869ca
TAGS : productivity
DONE : true
HAIKU DEFINITIONS
PERS : alx
SRCE : Merveilles
TYPE : list
LINK : http://simplytom.com/definitions.txl
MARCUS MEDITATIONS
PERS : neauoire
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : http://files.libertyfund.org/files/2133/Aurelius_1464_LFeBk.pdf
FILE : 12018-07-20_Aurelius_1464_LFeBk.pdf
WORK HURTS < PROCRASTINATION
PERS : neauoire
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9o3QBg2xJXcRCxGjS/working-hurts-less-than-procrastinating-we-fear-the-twinge
& the oscillation between liking what you do and hating it
& anyways, there’s this period where you get more critical, your mind’s designer-eye-thing gets wiser, and your hand(skills) have trouble keeping up and you loose your faith in your own skills
& so you look at your own work(music, art or writing) and feel like a noob, right?
& but then your hand(skills) rise to the challenge, and you get better than your mind’s eye, and you feel happy with your own work
& so now keep this in mind
& this gets REALLY interesting when you know more than 1 craft
& so let’s say you could skip these down hand periods by moving to another media
& if you can only ever draw, cannot write music or write. Then you are subject to this graph, with no escape.
& "knowing this biorythm is why I started to log, and my plan was to know exactly when I should jump to the next medium" - neauoire
& "you chain the highs together by rotating" - sebastian
& "there’s value in knowing when precisely you should hop over." - neauoire
& I find that for me, music takes a lot of priming to work
& If I give in to writing music whenever I feel like writing music, I only acumulate days of lesser focus
& but if I wait 3 days after I had the initial urge, I get a day or two of focused music writing.
& "ok so, 2 things, acknowledge the hand-eye relationship, and using that intersection to hop on over to the next"
> "It's definitely not time, as you can get stuck in the middle of a low and never progress if you don't either persevere through or switch" - heapaepaemnunea
> "You should also track other factors that could have an effect on your productivity: weather, diet, hydration, sleep, exercise, etc." - josh
> "I think these other factors are going to affect the dynamic range of the curve, but not the curve itself (edited)" - neauoire
> "The last time I tried logging (several month stint) I spent too much time doing the logging and ended up despising it... but at the same time of course weather, diet, hydration, sleep, exercise would effect productivity and reviewing that could be valuable T_T" - kor
> "classic mistake
& after a while, you have so much data, that it doesn’t really need to be so granular
& like, my predictions don’t really change that much if I predict the curves from 500 days, or 5000 days back." - neauoire
> "The explanation of 'stream switching at lull' makes me regret not starting years ago. The explanation helps *A LOT*. I also wonder if it works the same for everyone." - kor
> "so during these lull periods I find it helpful to my "eye" to spend time perusing other art casually. My subconscious does the analyzation and compares my work in the background." - sebastian
> "well the best indicator of that is:
& while you are doing this other media, let’s say art, when you go back to music you’ll notice an improvement.
& @kor I dont think it’s the same for everyone, but wouldn’t it be fun to find out what works for you :)" - neauoire
> "Example: Work on music while watching bladerunner in the background. Then when you get exhausted from music, Work on art the next day using inspiration from bladerunner and listen to similar artists in the background. Rinse and repeat." - sebastian
> "Also, exercise is a funny one, because you can treat it as a skill as well as a general improver, so you can include it in the routine if that helps practicing it (getting into it and keeping it going), but you probably don't want to push it super high either unless you're going for athlete." - heapaepaemnunea
> "i dont do pomodoro because i dont take orders from fucking robots" - floatvoit
> "To add to the thread earlier in #the-lobby. The idea of rotating around different creative practices to match your flow and interests rang a bell for me. It reminded me of Jung's explanation of _circumambulation_. "There is no linear evolution; there is only a circumambulation of the self". It's mostly used in a spiritual context of finding enlightenment, and described as an orbit whose center is both the self and the goal. However, some can say that _the self_ is, in fact, partly the art that you are creating. It's an extension of you. And as a multidimensional person who has many different skills and interests, one can be seen as fleshing out the different faces of the self as they orbit through their varying interests. Your interests are different faces of the same object. Every time you make a rotation around the obelisk of _self_, you see a different version of you." - sebastian
& "If the psychology can be mapped precisely. You can use the appropriate symbolism in a UI to help guide and prime movements in this metaphysical space and facilitate consistent workflow for users. This is one of my goals." - sebastian
EVERYTHING
DATE : 12018-07-19
PERS : neauoire
SRCE : Merveilles
QOTE : 'have you tried writing down everything you know about everything?' - neauoire
TYPE : encyclopedia
TAGS : inspiration
MUSIC THEORY
DATE : 12018-07-20
PERS : Symbol
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : https://www.youtube.com/user/Rhaptapsody/videos
> For animations for productivity or frequent use:
& Translation of self (think rollercoaster) or desired targets (teasing, shifting hitboxes) that the user is not in control of (scrolling is OK) should be avoided.
- Subtle translation animation *out* is acceptable.
- Translation animation *in* of dense content is not desireable.
& eg: Horizontally sliding pages. Translate out and fade out the old content, fade in (no translate) the new content."
BRAIN NARRATIVE
QOTE
> "The human brain needs a narrative, even if that narrative is told through code."
> "Writing deletable code is writing good code."
LINK : https://kellysutton.com/2017/05/29/deletability.html
TYPE : article
DATE : 12018-07-22
TAGS : psychology
AMOR FATI
DATE : 12018-07-22
LINK : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amor_fati
TYPE : article
TERM
> Amor fati: (lit. "love of fate") is a Latin phrase that may be translated as "love of fate" or "love of one's fate". It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary, in that they are among the facts of one's life and existence, so they are always necessarily there whether one likes them or not. Moreover, amor fati is characterized by an acceptance of the events or situations that occur in one's life.
TAGS : philosophy
CSS MASONRY
DATE : 12018-07-23
LINK : https://codeburst.io/how-to-the-masonry-layout-56f0fe0b19df
TYPE : article
TAGS : code, web
THE LAST-BUT-ONE ?
DATE : 12018-07-23
PERS : alx
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : https://qntm.org/question
TYPE : article
TAGS : fiction
NOTE : "It's a parody of the Issac Asimov story"
DAILY LOG
DATE : 12018-07-23
LINK : https://github.com/zehfernandes/dailylog/tree/master/2018
TYPE : article
REVI : true
TAGS : productivity
VIOLENT GAMES
DATE : 12018-07-23
LINK : http://www.cracked.com/podcast/why-everyone-wrong-about-violent-video-games-your-brain/
TYPE : podcast
TAGS : gamedev
SEVEN YEAR SHIP
DATE : 12018-07-23
LINK : http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/BenPorter/20180718/322277/How_to_take_7_years_to_ship_a_beta.php
TYPE : article
TAGS : gamedev
ART OF MASTERING
DATE : 12018-07-23
LINK : https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/mandy-parnell-art-mastering/
TYPE : video
TAGS : audio
WEB DIE
DATE : 12018-07-23
LINK : https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.html
TYPE : article
TAGS : web, philosophy
THE FOUR
DATE : 12018-07-23
LINK : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWBjUsmO-Lw
TYPE : video
TAGS : privacy
MOSQUITOES
DATE : 12018-07-23
LINK : https://100r.co/blog.html#rainy_with_a_chance_of_mosquitoes
TYPE : article
MORE DATA SIMPLE LOG
DATE : 12018-07-23
LINK : https://gist.github.com/neauoire/71f7f63038db0bf24302f44a31027294#file-hannah-md
TYPE : article
TAGS : productivity
QOTE
> The hardest thing about logging, is logging itself, and to keep doing it. Optimizing redundant logs, turning them into quick codes, like the fh/ch codes to generate the task/hour made this whole process a lot more fun. Giving instant feedback, through dataviz for instance, was excellent too.
> The biggest adjustment to my lifestyle, that I made recently, that yeilded the biggest difference, was to record more data. I've recently pushed this further, and started offloading almost all thought that goes through my mind at all time onto this digital paper. It has slowed time, helped me with focus and mindfulness.
LOCAL IGNORE
DATE : 12018-07-23
LINK : https://medium.com/@igloude/git-skip-worktree-and-how-i-used-to-hate-config-files-e84a44a8c859
TYPE : code
SNIP : git update-index --skip-worktree
TAGS : git, code
NOTE : Local ignore changes to file
TAILWIND
DATE : 12018-07-23
LINK : https://tailwindcss.com/docs/what-is-tailwind/
TYPE : tool
TAGS : code, web
DAY EVAL
LINK : https://medium.com/@NikitaVoloboev/day-evaluations-5706f31c9c5e
> Micromort: 'a unit of risk defined as one-in-a-million chance of death.'
LINK : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
ARTISTS
DATE : 12018-07-28
TYPE : quote
QOTE
> Alan Moore: “In latter times, I think that artists and writers have allowed themselves to be sold down the river. They have accepted the prevailing belief that art and writing are merely forms of entertainment. They are not seen as transformative forces that can change a human being, that can change a society. They are seen as simple entertainment. Things with which to fill 20 minutes, half an hour while we are waiting to die.
& It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed then they wouldn’t be audience, they would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.”
LINK : http://intellectual-thoughts.com/Alan%20Moore%20Quote.htm
TAGS : philosophy
ELECTRON MEMORY
DATE : 12018-08-05
TYPE : article
LINK : http://seenaburns.com/debugging-electron-memory-usage/
PERS : nnkd
SRCE : Merveilles
PROJ : Memex
ISOLATE
DATE : 12018-08-05
TYPE : tool
LINK : https://github.com/seenaburns/isolate
TAGS : gallery, masonry, web, code, inspiration
PROJ : Memex
CHEMICAL IMBALANCE
DATE : 12018-08-05
TYPE : article
LINK : https://www.anxietycentre.com/anxiety/chemical-imbalance.shtml
> Turbo: compressor forcing additional air into an engine to allow for increased fuel ignition and thus increased power output. A turbo has two halves, one is driven by the exhaust from the engine the other forces air into the engine. Negative 'turbo lag' time until the engine can provide enough exhaust to spin up the turbo compressor.
> Supercharger: Like a turbo but instead of being driven by exhaust gas it is driven mechanically (belt to engine). Negative Takes power/efficiency away from driving engine output in order to drive the compressor.
> Electic supercharger: fully electronically driven turbo (generally powered by a higher voltage (48v) seperate from car 12v). Negative high electricity use.
> Electic turbo: a hybrid electric-assisted turbo (generally powered by a higher voltage (48v) seperate from car 12v) using a DC motor to start the turbo spinning sooner to remove turbo lag or at low revs when not enough exhaust to produced. Once the engine is providing enough exhaust to spin the turbo the motor will stop output. It can also be a seperate electric supercharger working in conjunction with a standard turbo. Negative complexity.
LINK : http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-214-anthony-aguirre-on-predicting-the-future-of-science-a.html
QOTE
> "When we're exchanging individual sound bites or one paragraph arguments it's really easy to find ways to disagree with people and have lots of contention where as if you take the time to sort of engage in a little bit more a full way with a book or with a person or with multi paragraphs - the common ground is there if you look for it at all... I think looking for that common ground and then working your way back from there to see... now that we have that common ground where are the places that we disagree and can we identify why? Its just a so much more pleasent way of interacting with different ideas and different people than... saying OK my premise is that they think this and I think that and so we are in disagreement, now how am I going to defend my point of view..." - Anthony Aguirre on Rationally Speaking podcast #214 @ 44:30+
SEEN : true
CLEAR TAMEI
DATE : 12018-08-09
LINK : https://iglooghost.bandcamp.com/album/clear-tamei
TYPE : music
SEEN : true
STEEL MOGU
DATE : 12018-08-09
LINK : https://iglooghost.bandcamp.com/album/steel-mogu
TYPE : music
SEEN : false
WATER WARS
DATE : 12018-08-09
PERS : neauoire
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : https://www.thenation.com/article/the-future-of-climate-change-is-widespread-civil-war/
TYPE : article
SEEN : true
TAGS : env
BROWSER TIMELINE
DATE : 12018-08-09
PERS : neauoire
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_web_browsers
TYPE : article
TAGS : web
DARPA WEB
DATE : 12018-08-09
PERS : neauoire
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : https://medium.com/@giacomo_59737/the-web-is-still-a-darpa-weapon-31e3c3b032b8
LINK : https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/08/dweb-social-feeds-with-secure-scuttlebutt/
PERS : Andre Staltz
SRCE : Twitter
TAGS : web, code
FLORAL DIAGRAM GEN
DATE : 12018-08-10
TYPE : tool
LINK : http://kvetnidiagram.8u.cz/index_en.php?tvarokv=1&napodobap=1&nuhelnikokv=7&posunokv=0&tvarkal=1&napodobak=2&nuhelnikkal=6&posunkal=0&tvarkor=1&napodobac=3&nuhelnikkor=5&posunkor=36&nuhelniklis=1&stonek=1&listence=1&srpro=1&priblizpro=&nektaria=&styl=0&osy=&posunosy=&cba=1&barvaokv=ora&barvakal=zel&barvatyc=zlu&barvanek=zlz&nuhelniktyc=4&posuntyc=&tvartyc=1&upravytyc=&upravytycs=&srpes=0&nuhelnikpes=3&posunpes=&tvarpes=10&plosrust=2&pespoloha=1&pesvaj=1&tvarvaj=0&vernaceokv=1&vernacekal=1&vernacekor=1&vernacekor2=1&mezeryokv=1&mezerykal=1&mezerykor=1&mezerykor2=1&mezerylis=1&aa=submit+form&vzorec=P7+K6+C5+A4+_G%283%29
PERS : cinnamon
SRCE : Merveilles
SEEN : true
XINGTIAN
DATE : 12018-08-10
TYPE : article
LINK : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xingtian
PERS : changbai
SRCE : Merveilles
NISSE
DATE : 12018-08-10
TYPE : article
LINK : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisse_(folklore)
PERS : dormin
SRCE : Merveilles
SKOGSRA
DATE : 12018-08-10
TYPE : article
LINK : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skogsr%C3%A5
PERS : dormin
SRCE : Merveilles
JAPANESE CREATURES
DATE : 12018-08-10
TYPE : list
LINK : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_creatures_from_Japan
PERS : josh
SRCE : Merveilles
NECK
DATE : 12018-08-10
TYPE : article
LINK : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neck_(water_spirit)#N%C3%A4ck,_N%C3%B8kk
PERS : dormin
SRCE : Merveilles
SMALL SCREEN UX
DATE : 12018-08-10
TYPE : article
LINK : https://medium.com/dropbox-design/fostering-focus-for-small-screens-34a9f338668c
PROJ : Memex
TAGS : ux, design, web
ZCCOUNT MANIFESTO
DATE : 12018-08-10
TYPE : article
LINK : https://tilde.team/~aewens/manifesto/
TAGS : web, code
BUSY DISEASE
DATE : 12018-08-10
TYPE : article
LINK : https://onbeing.org/blog/the-disease-of-being-busy/
PERS : ypm
SRCE : Merveilles
HITFILM EXPRESS
DATE : 12018-08-10
TYPE : tool
LINK : https://fxhome.com/express
TAGS : video, software
NOTE : Free video editor like Premier or iMovie
PARADICHLORISSE
DATE : 12018-08-10
TYPE : article
LINK : https://wiki.xxiivv.com/#paradichlorisse
PERS : neauoire
SRCE : Merveilles
TAGS : inspiration
NEAUSEA
DATE : 12018-08-10
TYPE : article
LINK : https://wiki.xxiivv.com/#neausea
PERS : neauoire
SRCE : Merveilles
TAGS : inspiration
FRATH
DATE : 12018-08-10
TYPE : list
LINK : http://www.frathwiki.com/Main_Page
PERS : neauoire
SRCE : Merveilles
TAGS : conlang, conworld
SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION
DATE : 12018-08-10
TYPE : article
LINK : http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253.full
PERS : neauoire
SRCE : Merveilless
TAGS : env
WHATS WARMING
DATE : 12018-08-10
TYPE : article
LINK : https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/
TAGS : env
NOTATION AND THOUGHT
DATE : 12018-08-10
TYPE : article
LINK : https://github.com/hypotext/notation
TAGS : psychology
PROBLEM SOLVE CRAYON
DATE : 12018-08-10
TYPE : article
LINK : https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CPBmbgYZpsGqkiz2R/problem-solving-with-mazes-and-crayon
MYST TWO HISTORY
DATE : 12018-08-10
TYPE : article
LINK : https://medium.com/picking-up-the-pieces/two-histories-of-myst-8b37e1504f9e
TAGS : game
GOOD GOALS
DATE : 12018-08-10
TYPE : article
LINK : https://medium.com/@Marianattestad/set-goals-you-have-complete-control-over-71cbf440cd1f
LINK : https://drewdevault.com/2018/08/08/Signal.html
QOTE
> "Truly secure systems don’t require trust."
> "If you can put together an argument which on the surface appears reasonable, but requires in-depth discussion to debunk, passerby will be reassured that your position is correct, and that the dissenters are just trolls. They won’t have time to read the lengthy discussion which demonstrates that your conclusions wrong, especially if you draw the discussion out like Moxie does. It can be hard to distinguish these from genuine positions held by the person you’re talking to, but when it conveniently allows them to make self-serving plays, it’s a big red flag."
COMMON GROUND UP
DATE : 12018-08-11
QOTE : "When we're exchanging individual sound bites or one paragraph arguments it's really easy to find ways to disagree with people and have lots of contention where as if you take the time to sort of engage in a little bit more a full way with a book or with a person or with multi paragraphs - the common ground is there if you look for it at all... I think looking for that common ground and then working your way back from there to see... *now that we have that common ground where are the places that we disagree and can we identify why?* Its just a so much more pleasent way of interacting with different ideas and different people than... saying OK my premise is that they think this and I think that and so we are in disagreement, now how am I going to defend my point of view..." - Anthony Aguirre
LINK : http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-214-anthony-aguirre-on-predicting-the-future-of-science-a.html
NOTE : Anthony Aguirre on Rationally Speaking podcast #214 @ 44:30+
LINK : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLA-uFKjQ-g
TAGS : psychology
FLEXBOX GUIDE
DATE : 12018-08-13
TAGS : code, web
LINK : https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
TYPE : article
FLEXBOX HELP
DATE : 12018-08-13
TAGS : code, web
LINK : http://the-echoplex.net/flexyboxes/
TYPE : tool
EXOCORTEX
DATE : 12018-08-13
TYPE : term
PERS : cblgh
SRCE : SSB
LINK : https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Exocortex.html
TERM
> Exocortex: "An exocortex is a hypothetical artificial external information processing system that would augment a brain's biological high-level cognitive processes.
& An individual's exocortex would be composed of external memory modules, processors, IO devices and software systems that would interact with, and augment, a person's biological brain. Typically this interaction is described as being conducted through a direct brain–computer interface, making these extensions functionally part of the individual's mind.
& Individuals with significant exocortices could be classified as cyborgs or posthumans."
> Fh (PERCENTAGE OF DAY) The Focus Hour(Fh) or value: is an index of attention for the day's task — where 1 indicates that no time was invested in the task, and 9 indicates that all available time was invested in the task.
> Ch (PROGRESS) The Concrete Hour(Ch) or vector: represents a value of concrete output, or index of progress toward the release of a project. It is also a vague indicator of a log's task type when combined with the sector value.
LINK : http://blog.fogus.me/2015/11/04/the-100101-method-my-approach-to-open-source/
TAGS : philosophy, code
SNORT
DATE : 12018-08-15
LINK : https://www.snort.org
TYPE : tool
TAGS : security, code, net
SEEN : true
WALKAWAY
DATE : 12018-08-17
AUTH : Cory Doctorow
PERS : cinnamon
SRCE : Merveilles
TYPE : podcast
SEEN : true
LINK : https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2018/05/27/cory-doctorow-walkaway/
QOTE : "There are no atheists in a foxhole" like "its hard to be authoritarian on the internet"
TAGS : philosophy, politics, code
TOKI PONA
DATE : 12018-08-17
PERS : stephen
SRCE : Merveilles
TYPE : tool
LINK : https://tokipona.org/
P2P RESOURCES
LINK : https://p2pforever.org/
TYPE : list
PERS : zach!
SRCE : Cabal
TAGS : p2p, code
ISAAC ARTHUR
DATE : 12018-08-17
LINK : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g
TYPE : video
TAGS : inspiration, future, space
HOW TO BE HAPPY
DATE : 12018-08-17
TYPE : podcast
TERM : Hygge: (Hoo-gah) "The Danish Art of Cosiness" "In essence, hygge means creating a warm atmosphere and enjoying the good things in life with good people. The warm glow of candlelight is hygge. Cosying up with a loved one for a movie – that’s hygge, too. And there's nothing more hygge than sitting around with friends and family, discussing the big and small things in life."
LINK : http://freakonomics.com/podcast/happiness/
TAGS : politics, psychology
CRYPTOSTORM VPN
DATE : 12018-08-18
LINK : https://cryptostorm.is/
TYPE : tool
TAGS : security
PARTICLE MESH
DATE : 12018-08-19
LINK : https://www.particle.io/mesh/
TYPE : tool
TAGS : iot, hardware
RUN DMC ON HIP HOP
DATE : 12018-08-19
LINK : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPRmFJ_U8Ug
TYPE : video
TAGS : inspiration
OH SHIT GIT
DATE : 12018-08-20
LINK : http://ohshitgit.com/
TYPE : tool
TAGS : code, git
NOTE BEST PRACTICES
DATE : 12018-08-20
LINK : https://github.com/i0natan/nodebestpractices
TYPE : list
TAGS : code
JAVASCRIPT TALKS
DATE : 12018-08-20
LINK : https://github.com/AllThingsSmitty/must-watch-javascript
> "A pioneer in the ecology movement,[4] Bookchin formulated and developed the theory of social ecology and urban planning, within anarchist, libertarian socialist, and ecological thought. He was the author of two dozen books covering topics in politics, philosophy, history, urban affairs, and ecology. Among the most important were Our Synthetic Environment (1962), Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971), The Ecology of Freedom (1982) and Urbanization Without Cities (1987). In the late-1990s he became disenchanted with the increasingly apolitical lifestylism of the contemporary anarchist movement, stopped referring to himself as an anarchist, and founded his own libertarian socialist ideology called Communalism."
> "...a prominent anti-capitalist and advocate of society's decentralisation along ecological and democratic lines."
> Communalism: "a theory of government or a system of government in which independent communes participate in a federation", "the principles and practice of communal ownership."
Hypocognition
DATE : 12018-08-21
PERS : alx
SRCE : Merveilles
NOTE : "What is hypocognition? If you don’t know, you’ve just experienced it."
TAGS : psychology
TYPE : term
TERM
> Hypocognition: a term introduced to modern behavioral science by anthropologist Robert Levy, means the lack of a linguistic or cognitive representation for an object, category, or idea. The Martinique islanders were hypocognitive because they lacked a cognitive representation of refrigeration. But so are we hypocognitive of the numerous concepts that elude our awareness. We wander about the unknown terrains of life as novices more often than experts, complacent of what we know and oblivious to what we miss.
FRONT END DEV THOUGHTS
DATE : 12018-08-21
PERS : jim
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : https://reading.supply/@jim/thoughts-about-front-end-development-2WwhaP
LINK : http://clubmate.fi/oocss-acss-bem-smacss-what-are-they-what-should-i-use/
PERS : jim
SRCE : Merveilles
TYPE : article
TAGS : code, web
NOTE
> Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS)
& Bad: ul li.list-item { ... }
& Good: .list-item { ... }
CELESTIAL NAVIGATION
DATE : 12018-08-21
TAGS : boat, env
NOTE
> 'Celestial Navigation in the GPS age'
> "Personally, learning celestial nav, really added to my journeys, making me feel incredibly connected to the surface of the sphere we are rotating on, and within the sphere of stars we live within. It has added a real 'beauty' for me, admittedly I am mathematical, and a bit of a hippy, but the added awareness of seeing stars move overhead as you move North and South, and over the equator, is pretty magic. 120 nm moved north or south changes all the angles of the stars you see, and the angle they rise at from the equator. (It's called amplitude) You can then really FEEL how you're moving over the surface of the globe. YOu can really start to 'feel' the spherical nature of the planet/galaxy/universe where we all live. You can 'feel' the equator. The world stops being flat, and becomes 'angles' and spheres. For me, I stopped thinking in terms of countries and boundaries, and just started to feel 'curves' and rotation."
& "You're artists, and 'tech nerds', you are in a perfect position to understand celestial nav for its utter eye-opening magic. It's not just about working out a lat/long, it's about understanding your relationship on the globe to it's rotation, it's angle to the sun, the position of the sun and stars as they themselves move. Then picking a single magic moment, measuring some simple things, and starting to work out intersecting circles and lines."
AUTH : John Karl
TYPE : book
EMERGENCY NAVIGATION
DATE : 12018-08-21
TYPE : book
TAGS : boat, env
NOTE
> 'Emergency navigation' (1989)
> "He outlines ancient Polynesian and Arab navigation methods, which I used to love to practice when on watch at night. It's a book that might take you 30 years to master. it's an old book, new copies are for sale at $950, whilst used ones can be found for $0.01. I have a digital and print version. I'd LOVE to practice these skills on another Pacific trip, or two. He outlines methods using an old bit of stick with some string (a kamal) for measuring angles. And your fingers. And they work!!!"
AUTH : David Burch
OUTGUESS
DATE : 12018-08-22
LINK : https://web.archive.org/web/20140629194046/http://www.outguess.org/
TYPE : tool
TERM
> Steganography: "is the practice of concealing a file, message, image, or video within another file, message, image, or video. The word steganography combines the Greek words steganos (στεγανός), meaning covered, concealed, or protected, and graphein (γράφειν) meaning writing."
> "it's a bit like douglas adams humour. it's the story of 2 scientists making machines. it's told in super abrupt format, every chapter is like 3-4 pages long. it made me laugh out loud a few times. like the first story, to give you an idea, is like, one of the scientist makes a machne that can create anything that starts with the letter n."
> "I love that chapter in the cyberiad about the armies that became too smart to fight became philosophers and pondered on the concept itself of "enemies" and went off to pick daisies instead"
STAR DIARIES
DATE : 12018-08-26
TYPE : book
NOTE : The Star Diaries
PERS : alx
SRCE : Merveilles
QOTE
> "if you like The Cyberiad I implore you to pick up The Star Diaries"
> "There's one of his stories, I can't remember which.
& where the one society makes moral laws physical
& so if you say, try to hurt another person, the nanobots in the air simply make the air thicker so that you can't"
MERMAID TAVERN
DATE : 12018-08-27
QOTE : London tavern where famous writers hung out in Shakespare's time. Like the 'White Horse Tavern' in NYC. 38:00ish
LINK : https://jrelibrary.com/1158-chuck-palahniuk/
AUTH : Chuck Palahniuk
TYPE : term
NOTE : Novelist Fight Club, Choke, Lullaby.
P2P LINKS
DATE : 12018-08-31
LINK : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LFbflHSdTLqCDc0fio10cVKuuMQdG9qPJ4B7nmpIH5M/edit#gid=0
TYPE : list
PERS : zelf
SRCE : SSB
TAGS : p2p, philosophy
REVI : true
CRYPTOSPHERE PHILOSOPHY
DATE : 12018-08-31
LINK : https://github.com/cryptosphere/cryptosphere/wiki/Philosophy
TYPE : article
PERS : zelf
SRCE : SSB
TAGS : p2p, philosophy
STRUCURELESSNESS TYRANNY
DATE : 12018-08-31
LINK : http://struggle.ws/pdfs/tyranny.pdf
TYPE : article
PERS : zelf
SRCE : SSB
TAGS : p2p, philosophy
FILE : 12018-08-31_tyranny.pdf
SOLAR ORNAMENTING
DATE : 12018-08-31
LINK : https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/positions/191258/is-ornamenting-solar-panels-a-crime/
TYPE : article
TAGS : solarpunk
LIFE OUTSIDE
DATE : 12018-08-31
LINK : http://syzygyzip.tumblr.com/post/177468735390/life-outside-the-settlement
TYPE : article
PERS : theneko
SRCE : Merveilles
TAGS : gamedev, game, dark souls
SUNBEAM CITY
DATE : 12018-08-31
PERS : neauoire
SRCE : Merveilles
LINK : http://solarpunk.sunbeam.city/
TYPE : article
TAGS : solarpunk
TERM
> Solarpunk: Solarpunks cherish both nature and progress, the individual and the community.
& They believe in a world that is green, colourful, and bright. It can be described as a literary genre, an aesthetic, or a movement.
& The key points are:
&
- An emphasis on renewable energy, especially solar power.
- A demand for technology and society to re-centre around sustainability, longevity, and balance.
- A focus on decentralisation, community activism, social justice and civic empowerment.
- A recognition that economic, social, and ecological injustices are all deeply inter-connected.
SUSPIRIA 2018
DATE : 12018-08-31
TYPE : video
RIGHT TO FOOD
DATE : 12018-08-31
LINK : https://www.righttofood.org/
PERS : pcell
SRCE : Merveilles
SOLARPUNK NOTES
DATE : 12018-08-31
LINK : https://hieroglyph.asu.edu/2014/09/Solarpunk-notes-toward-a-manifesto/
PERS : neauoire
SRCE : Merveilles
TAGS : solarpunk
TYPE : article
TATAMI GALAXY
DATE : 12018-08-31
LINK : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tatami_Galaxy
PERS : neauoire
SRCE : Merveilles
TYPE : video
NOTE : Allan Xia
THIRTY MILLION LINE
DATE : 12018-08-31
LINK : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk
PERS : cancel
SRCE : Merveilles
TYPE : video
TAGS : code
NOTE : "A historical argument for creating a stable instruction set architecture (ISA) for entire system-on-a-chip (SoC) packages."
ANTI-WEB-DESIGN
DATE : 12018-08-31
LINK : http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2013-03-10-Anti-web-design-Manifesto.html
PERS : nownpl
SRCE : Merveilles
TYPE : article
TAGS : code, web
LEAN SOFTWARE
DATE : 12018-08-31
LINK : https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf
PERS : neauoire
SRCE : Merveilles
TYPE : article
FILE : 12018-08-31_lean.pdf
TAGS : code
MINIMAL MANIFESTO
DATE : 12018-08-31
LINK : https://lobste.rs/s/uptc4y/manifesto_for_minimalist_software
TYPE : article
TAGS : code, web
PERS : neauoire
SRCE : Merveilles
ISEKAI
DATE : 12018-08-31
TYPE : term
TERM
> Isekai: (Japanese "different world") "a subgenre of Japanese fantasy light novels, manga, anime, and video games revolving around a normal person being transported to or trapped in a parallel universe. Often, this universe already exists in the protagonist's world as a fictional universe, but it may also be unbeknownst to them. The new universe can be an entirely different world where only the protagonist has any memory of their former life, as in Saga of Tanya the Evil or one where they reincarnate in. It may also be one where a formerly virtual world turns into a real one, such as in Log Horizon and Overlord."
DREAM
DATE : 12018-09-01
TYPE : quote
QOTE
> "All men dream; but not equally.
& Those who dream by night in the dusty
& recesses of their minds
& Awake to find that it was vanity;
& But the dreamers of day are dangerous men.
& That they may act their dreams with open
& eyes to make it possible"
AUTH : T. E. Lawrence
ARTISTS
DATE : 12018-09-01
TYPE : quote
AUTH : Alan Moore
QOTE : “In latter times, I think that artists and writers have allowed themselves to be sold down the river. They have accepted the prevailing belief that art and writing are merely forms of entertainment. They are not seen as transformative forces that can change a human being, that can change a society. They are seen as simple entertainment. Things with which to fill 20 minutes, half an hour while we are waiting to die.
& It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed then they wouldn’t be audience, they would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.”
BILLIONS
TYPE : quote
DATE : 12018-09-01
QOTE : “This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, out thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe.”
CIVIL OBEDIENCE PROBLEM
AUTH : Howard Zinn
TYPE : quote
DATE : 12018-09-01
LINK : https://vimeo.com/48834336
QOTE : “… to establish the principles of the Declaration of Independence, we are going to need to go outside the law, to stop obeying the laws that demand killing or that allocate wealth the way it has been done, or that put people in jail for petty technical offences and keep other people out of jail for enormous crimes…”
DIGITAL FIRES
DATE : 12018-09-01
TYPE : quote
AUTH : Phil James
QOTE : "...our small digital fires we keep alight at night."
MARBLE
DATE : 12018-09-01
TYPE : quote
QOTE : "As we got farther and farther away, the Earth diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beauitful marble you can imagine... seeing this has to change a man."
AUTH : James Irwin
NOTE : Apollo 15
DEATH OF AWE
DATE : 12018-09-04
TYPE : quote
LINK : https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9bg9x5/the-death-of-awe-in-the-age-of-awesome-394
QOTE : "As spirituality wanes, experience is the new faith and we are refuges from the mundane."
AESTHETIC CONTEMPLATION
DATE : 12018-09-04
TYPE : quote
QOTE : “For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.”
UNENCUMBERED
DATE : 12018-09-04
TYPE : quote
QOTE : "this sense of first sight unencumbered by knowingness"
POMEGRANATES COLOR
DATE : 12018-09-06
TYPE : video
LINK : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MXjUf05HVE
QOTE :
> "The world is a window"
> "Stop asking 'what does this mean?', and start asking 'how does it make me feel?'"
> "There is always a new way to see."
IKIGAI
DATE : 12018-09-06
TYPE : term
TERM
> Ikigai: "A Japanese concept meaning 'a reason for being'"
FILE : 12018-09-06_ikigai.jpg
MAGICIAN
DATE : 12018-09-08
TYPE : quote, video
LINK : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4unDD4OUUNQ
QOTE : "We often mistakenly think that we are very different from our ancient ancestors, with our great knowledge and our amazing technology. But the origins of our knowledge and technology lie in the minds of men like the old Aborigine. He, and all those like him in tribal and ancient societies were accessing the magician energy."
AUTH : Moore & Gillette
CLOUD ATLAS
DATE : 12018-09-08
TYPE : quote, video, book
QOTE : "Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future"
AUTH : David Mitchell
DATE : 12018-09-08
AUTH : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
QOTE
> “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
& "During the life of any heart this line keeps changing place; sometimes it is squeezed one way by exuberant evil and sometimes it shifts to allow enough space for good to flourish. One and the same human being is, at various ages, under various circumstances, a totally different human being. At times he is close to being a devil, at times to sainthood. But his name doesn't change, and to that name we ascribe the whole lot, good and evil."
DATE : 12018-09-08
AUTH : Cyprian Norwid
QOTE : "Beauty is to enthuse us for work, and work is to raise us up"
DATE : 12018-09-08
AUTH : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
QOTE : "Beauty will save the world"
LINK : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwLP62fL83k
GOLDEN MEAN
DATE : 12018-09-08
AUTH : Aristotle
TAGS : philosphy
TYPE : term
TERM
> Golden Mean: the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess (recklessness) and the other of deficiency (cowardice).
READER DEATH
DATE : 12018-09-08
AUTH : Roland Barthes
QOTE : "a text's unity lies not in its origin but in its destination."
GEO-CENTROID PYRAMID
DATE : 12018-09-08
LINK : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_centre_of_Earth
TYPE : article
QOTE : "...knowledge of the Great Pyramid being the geographical centre was 'determined by many years of scientific investigation' and that the Great Pyramid was likely to be the "last of the present land surface of the earth" to survive a cataclysmic event, due to its positioning."
TAGS : pyramid, env
PROJ : Dastime
MONEY SUPPLY
DATE : 12018-09-10
TYPE : quote
QOTE
> Nathan Mayer Rothschild: "I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets.
& "The man who controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply."
AUTH :
> Mayer Amschel Rothschild: "Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."
CONVENTIONAL MINDS
DATE : 12018-09-10
QOTE
> John Anthony West: "Few things in this world are more predictable that the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas."
DATE : 12018-09-10
LINK : https://www.cryptovoxels.com/play?coords=NE@53E,31S
DATE : 12018-09-10
LINK : https://github.com/hellerve/programming-talks
JAVASCRIPT
DATE : 12018-09-10
SNIP
> call(): allows for a function/method belonging to one object to be assigned and called for a different object
Imagine you woke up naked in a field, in the middle of nowhere. You have no idea where you are, or how you got there. What do you do? First, you’d probably go into survival mode; you’d look for the basic necessities to sustain life: water, food, and shelter from the elements.
Once you had everything you needed to stay alive, and you knew that, if nothing else, you could at least remain in your current location indefinitely, you might start to wonder what in the hell happened: one minute you’re bouncing around Reddit, the next you’re bare-ass in the middle of nowhere.
After you come to grips with the reality of the situation, you’d probably want to try and figure out where in the hell you are. You might try and look for clues from your environment or maybe a constellation you recognize, or perhaps you decide to do a little exploring around the immediate area, to see if there’s anything around that could give you some clue as to where in the hell you are.
Let’s say that your efforts reveal that you’re in the middle of Africa. Once you’ve figured out where you are, you only have two choices left: stay there and simply exist as long as you can, or attempt to get back to civilization; either option has it’s own risks.
If you chose to stay where you are, then that’s essentially it for you, you now know how your future will play out: you’ll remain at your current location until you either die of old age, or your area becomes unable to sustain life. Either way, the game is over for you; your entire existence becomes about survival, and you’re just running out the clock until, at some point in the future, you cease to exist.
Maybe you decide to try and leave a message for someone to find in the future, maybe you’re content to simply fade off into oblivion, either way, your fate is sealed.
Now let’s say you decided to try and get back to civilization. Since you know where you are, your logical next step is going to be to try and figure out someplace to go, and then of course, how to get there. Now you have a goal, something you’re striving towards. Life ceases to be about mere survival and becomes an epic journey to get you where you want to go.
This is the timeline of humanity. We woke up with nothing, on a little rock, in the middle of nowhere. We figured out how to survive, and we struggled to come to grips with our own reality. Then we started exploring, trying to find out just exactly where we were in the Universe. Now we’re faced with the same choice: exist, or move on.
You ask if it’s something that a “regular guy REALLY needs to know”, to me it’s the most important thing he/she needs to know: that humanity chooses more than an existence of mere survival. That humanity chooses to move forward and keep exploring and expanding. To know that, even though we might never make it, at least we’re making the effort. That we have hope.
The alternative is to simply run out the clock and wait to fade off into oblivion.
QOTE : "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." - Abelson & Sussman, SICP, preface to the first edition
QOTE : "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." - Charles Kingsley
QOTE : "People don't change their minds. They die, and are replaced by people with different opinions." - Arturo Albergati
QOTE : "Focusing is about saying no." - Steve Jobs
QOTE : "Don't fear moving slowly. Fear standing still." - Chinese proverb
QOTE : "I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time." - Charlie Munger
flintknapping: the process of chipping away material from high silica stones like "flint" in a carefully controlled manner with special tools to produce sharp projectile points or tools.
Water hammer: pressure spike (potentially extreme) from quickly shutting valve (tap) on running water. Depends on celecity (medium elasticity), medium speed, shut speed. A water tower can be used to absorb the pressure change.
COUSINS ACROSS THE SEA
DATE : 12018-09-14
TYPE : video
LINK : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9nGHrLWlic
Tohunga: (Maori) "an expert practitioner of any skill or art, either religious or otherwise. Tohunga include expert priests, healers, navigators, carvers, builders, teachers and advisors."
Kahuna: (Hawaiian) "priest, sorcerer, magician, wizard, minister, expert in any profession"
