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cosmos : not just a synonym for universe, but a beautiful universe (cosmetic)
sophistry : rhetorical masters without a compass, from ancient Greece, hucksters and mercenaries; using the dark arts of craft to deceive populations.
philosophy : the communal pursuit of wisdom (philo = friends, sophia = wisdom).
prescient : foresight into the future

A philosophy is the aggregate of your attitudes toward fundamental matters and is derived from a process of consciously thinking about critical issues and developing rational reasons for holding one particular belief or position rather than another.

Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh • The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

i really fuck with stephen wolfram because unlike most curious intelligent individuals he decided he just wants to throw himself at the most important and interesting problems (regardless of whether or not he succeeds) rather than spending his time optimizing some solution to some small niche subsystem even though it may have vastly larger... See more

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Aristotle argued that true leisure—by which he meant self-reflection and philosophical contemplation—was among the very highest of virtues because it was worth choosing for its own sake, whereas other virtues, like courage in war, or noble behavior in government, were virtuous only because they led to something else. The Latin word for business,... See more

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

This was great. 2 hours of Phil poking at leaky abstractions, like real GDP, productivity, tasks, effective compute, and even suffering. We should aspire to interrogate the models and claims we take for granted as well as Phil.

Dwarkesh Patel x.com

If you spend enough time considering what this fact implies about the kind of thing that you are it will change your life btw

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Jamrock Hobo

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tbh leibniz gets a pass for being the og believer in universal explainers https://t.co/8orPzEayCN

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The very word ‘philosophy’ derives from the ancient Greek philosophia, which means ‘loving (philos) wisdom (sophia)’ or ‘love of true knowledge’.

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Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh • The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Michael James • Ramana Maharshi's Forty Verses on What Is