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I generate
If one assumes that "the nature of knowledge is fractal: The closer you get, the more you'll find", it is no surprise that anything one sufficiently becomes aware of (thinks, feels), serendipitously appears more and more all around us: Think of that unique idea or desire you've been privately developing for weeks, when suddenly you discover that countless fully fleshed out manifestations of it already exist in the world. Confirmation bias? I have my doubts. In a reality with no real boundary between individuals and past-present-future, where everything is generated at the speed of awareness, a central question is what is worth while doing at all. Faced with an infinite ocean of possibilities, shifting from "doing" to "being" is a useful strategy to prevent succumbing to nihilism and insanity. Simply focus on relaxing, the rest will take care of it self.
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“Technology in the Present Tense” – Notes from a Weary Luddite
“Perceiving technology in ‘the present tense’ requires a rejection of the hope for how the technology can be changed in ’the future tense’ and forces a more grounded assessment of these technologies.”
“The future is not a blank page; and neither is it an open book.” – Lewis Mumford
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“What would it be like to have life on easy mode?” You can try it right now: Keep reading this article, but see if you can do it with a feeling of relaxed effortlessness. Of ease & peace. You might relax your muscles, breathe deeply and smoothly, smile very slightly, and feel a sense of appreciation for being alive in this moment. What is that like for you? That’s the essence of life on easy mode.
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"A little less conversation, a little more action, please" - Elvis
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There is always a choice to perceive any "failure" as "lesson learned" or "quest completed" instead.
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"Hell is empty & all the devils are here." - Shakespeare
The idols we worship
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The Visible Wavelengths on the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Related: Cthulhu Spectrum - #Science #Philosophy #Space #Complexity #Biology
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On Order and Disorder
Image is a note from Niklas Luhmann on Zettelkasten: He describes his system as a cybernetic system - A Combination of disorder and order, of lump formation and unpredictable combination realized in ad hoc access. In contrast to today's digital tools, centered on the habit of creating too much order.
#Comment: Order is essentially just a choice of perceiving things from a specific perspective, nothing more or less. Being able to see order and disorder in everything requires relaxation.
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Do The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work
DoSimpleThings enables design via two rules: First, implement a new capability in the simplest way you can think of that "could possibly work". Don't build a lot of amazing superstructure, don't do anything fancy, just put it in. Use an if statement, even. Make the code pass the Unit Tests for the new feature (and all features, as always). Second, and this is critical to the rule, refactor the system to be the simplest possible code including all the features it now has. Follow the rule of OnceAndOnlyOnce and the other code quality rules to make the system as clean as it can possibly be.
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“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” - Maya Angelou
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Knowledge about Knowledge
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about" - Alfred North Whitehead
"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge" - Alfred North Whitehead
"Complete liberty of contradicting and disapproving our opinion is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action and on no other terms can a being with human faculties have any rational assurance of being right." - John Stuart Mill (1859)
"Action without knowledge is vanity. Knowledge without action is insanity." - Imām Muḥammad al-Ġazālīy رَحْمَةُ الله عليه
"... and above every lord of knowledge there is one who knows more." - The Qur'an, Surah Yusuf, Ayah 76 (12:76)
"The manifestation of Truth is a mystery of Love, just as, conversely, the content of Love is a mystery of Truth." - Frithjof Schuon ق, Understanding Islam
