References

Pebbles in the pockets

Small correction: today I learned that the pyramids of Egypt don't contain hieroglyphs, so this was edited to "ancient temples" in the version published on my site.

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Game design

Actions to interact with objects:

1. Examine

2. Take

3. Use

4. Unlock

5. Open

6. Close

7. Move

8. Break

9. Repair

10. Clean

11. Hide

12. Ignore

Actions to interact with people:

1. Talk

2. Listen

3. Help

4. Give

5. Ask

6. Offer

7. Share

8. Apologize

9. Thank

10. Forgive

11. Hug

12. Fight

premeditatio malorum

Prepare for life inevitable set backs

Each has his own tastes, Gods and men alike.

(Euripides–Hippolytus 104, from Erasmus)

lindaraquelita • A Catalog of Montaigne's Beam Inscriptions

The stick used in oil painting to rest the hand while doing close work is called a mahlstick.

So let your latest grand ideas cool off for a while first. By all means, have as many great ideas as you can. Get excited about them. Just don’t act in the heat of the moment. Write them down and park them for a few days. Then, evaluate their actual priority with a calm mind.

David Heinemeier Hansson • Rework

in some cases—and despite a graphical representation in its user interface that shows the chatbot “reading” specific source material before giving a reply to a prompt—Perplexity is summarizing not actual news articles but reconstructions of what they say based on URLs and traces of them left in search engines like extracts and metadata,

By Dhruv Mehrotra Tim Marchman • Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine

It's just a simple, ordinary table, but he cherishes it more than his gold cane, his precious silver, or even his books. This small, silent piece of furniture has moved with him from home to home, saved from auctions and disasters, like a brother in battle. It's the only one that knows his deepest joy and his worst pain, silently witnessing his

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