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nico λ
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For all its chilled-out associations, the attempt to be here now is therefore still another instrumentalist attempt to use the present moment purely as a means to an end, in an effort to feel in control of your unfolding time. As usual, it doesn’t work. The self-consciousness you experience when you seek too effortfully to be “more in the moment”... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
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On Inboxes
I have two conceptual inboxes.
First one, inbox.md , is where the most interesting links end up, together with my random thoughts, waiting for a weekly review. I mainly append to that file through iOS shortcut. I can quickly share a twitter link, or jot a quick note in drafts.
Second one is a bit more convoluted. Sometimes during the day... See more
On Inboxes
I have two conceptual inboxes.
First one, inbox.md , is where the most interesting links end up, together with my random thoughts, waiting for a weekly review. I mainly append to that file through iOS shortcut. I can quickly share a twitter link, or jot a quick note in drafts.
Second one is a bit more convoluted. Sometimes during the day... See more
Memex Dreams
Yancey Strickler’s Nine Creative Meditations
To me or to the mean - Focus on what makes your work strange or unique rather than trying to fit in with what everyone else is doing.
You are your audience - Create work that satisfies your own desires and interests rather than trying to please an imagined mass audience.
Small is more rewarding than big -
- When Trevor Phillips, the old Blair-era ethnic-policy guru, asserted that “the key aim of policy should not be zero immigration but orderly flow,” he was clearly stuck in the world of a generation ago, when opposition to immigration meant complaining about litter in ethnic neighborhoods—not today’s countrywide sense that that older generation
Land's End - Claremont Review of Books
“The point of books is to combat loneliness” — David Foster Wallace
The most effective way to sap distraction of its power is just to stop expecting things to be otherwise—to accept that this unpleasantness is simply what it feels like for finite humans to commit ourselves to the kinds of demanding and valuable tasks that force us to confront our limited control over how our lives unfold.Some Zen Buddhists hold... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
We in the West are used to thinking of the mind and the body as separate. But a burgeoning field called “embodied cognition” is demonstrating that thinking is actually a full-body experience.
Annie Murphy Paul • The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
Philosophy of science has had a long-running debate about the status of such postulated entities. Two major positions have evolved: scientific realism and instrumentalism. Advocates of the former argue that these constructs truly exist. Instrumentalists are more modest and argue that such constructs should be treated as tools and evaluated on their... See more