On journaling over time
From an email I had received from the Atticus Review: > I’m still compelled to do morning pages, but I treat the exercise differently now. I'm not mincing words, I'm just not leaving them…
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Valentine’s Day gift from us to us, after watching the compulsive wine-drinking in “The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window”…
Missing the web
From a recent HackerNews discussion about search engines, some harsh truth about the big shift in the last two decades: >It is only more recently that they seem to have given up. They haven't…
“Psycho Cybernetics” By Maxwell Maltz
From this article > Maltz came to the conclusion that our self-image is the cornerstone of our mental state, and therefore of all the successes and failures that happen in our lives as a result.…
“Residential programming"
A terrible name for a revolutionary old idea. Why is source code in files? I’ve seen the Smalltalk solution to this, to have everything be “live” all the time, in the image. This talk presents Inte…
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The Philosopher of Failure: Emil Cioran’s Heights of Despair > self-contradiction is not even a weakness, but the sign a mind is alive. For writing, he believed, is not about being consistent, nor…
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The Philosopher of Failure: Emil Cioran’s Heights of Despair > The human condition itself is for Cioran just another failed project: “No longer wanting to be a man,” he writes in The Trouble with…
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The Philosopher of Failure: Emil Cioran’s Heights of Despair > Failure, then, was Cioran’s close companion, loyal muse, chief inspiration. He looks at the world — at people, events, and situations…
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The Philosopher of Failure: Emil Cioran’s Heights of Despair > The difference between regimes is less important than it appears; you are alone by force, we without constraint. Is the gap so wide b…
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Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Why Quantum Mechanics? > several indisputable realizations: I am mortal. Despite my self-conception as a nerdy little kid awaiting the serious people’s appro…