In the middle of the desert you can say anything you want
Main realization from summer 2021, the one I spent home being on vacation, not doing home office, adding it here since I’m never starting that blog post:
I stopped believing my usual “You are what you do” bit, replacing it with this one:
“You are what you do when you are not tired”
Corollary: to learn more about yourself, get yourself in a situation when you’re not tired1, “don’t should on yourself”, leave alone any expectations and preconceptions about what you should do during your vacation, do whatever makes you happy and observe.
for a couple of days at least to get rid of the novelty effect and have enough data in a statistical sense ↩︎
Am ill have a cold, am suffering, the usual “Can’t easily solve it - learn everything you can about it”.
Random about colds, all from 5
Простудой принято обозначать ОРВИ лёгкого течения, затрагивающие преимущественно носовые ходы 5
Из-за убеждения о том, что в летнее время невозможно простудиться, некоторые люди даже путают летнюю простуду с аллергией[69]. Ложными оказываются и наиболее распространённые убеждения касательно лечения простуды. А единственный известный на сегодняшний день способ избегания простудных заболеваний — жизнь в полной изоляции от остального человечества[51]. Так, исследователи, посещающие Арктику или Антарктику, на время своего пребывания не болеют простудой, несмотря на мороз и суровые условия
Не существует доказательств возможности простудиться из-за переохлаждения, перегрева или из-за воздействия холодной или дождливой погоды, а некоторые исследования показывают, что воздействие холода не сказывается на заболеваемости. Тем не менее предполагается, что вдыхаемый холодный воздух снижает местный иммунитет носовых проходов, повышая шансы на заражение 5
https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/flu-and-colds-in-depth ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
there’s moderate evidence that NSAIDS:
according not to meditation websites, but to the same US NIH 1 ↩︎
https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B0 ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/dancing.html
As the Buddha said from his deathbed to his favorite disciple Ananda, “Have no fixed beliefs, and find your own light.”
Beautiful, initially found on LW (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HnWN6v4wHQwmYQCLX/mythic-mode), fascinating in its entirety.
On mysticism and direct experience, won’t attempt to summarise or to decide if I agree it not, like it or not.
Lastly, interesting other side of the coin to the usually-negative connotations of “double-think”
If my language is too “religious” for you, feel free to transpose it all into the key of psychology. Speak of archetypes and semi-independent complexes. Feel free to hypothesize that I’ve merely learned how to enter some non-ordinary mental states that change my body language, disable a few mental censors, and have me putting out signals that other people interpret in terms of certain material in their own unconscious minds.
Fine. You’ve explained it. Correctly, even. But you can’t do it!
And as long as you stick with the sterile denotative language of psychology, and the logical mode of the waking mind, you won’t be able to — because you can’t reach and program the unconscious mind that way. It takes music, symbolism, sex, hypnosis, wine and strange drugs, firelight and chanting, ritual and magic. Super-stimuli that reach past the conscious mind and neocortex, in and back to the primate and mammal and reptile brains curled up inside.
Each December since 2018, the LessWrong community comes together to look at the best posts from the previous year, and reflect on which of them have stood the test of time.
(https://www.lesswrong.com/bestoflesswrong)
So, not “what happened the last 12 month” but “what happened 24-to-12 months ago”.
This is brilliant and probably generalizable
To take out a key cylinder, remove the screw perpendicular to the side of the door; then insert a key, rotate the cylinder to either either an 11 or 13 o’clock position. Then it really easily slides out.
The qtile/qtile-examples: Example configurations and scripts for Qtile have multiple folders with example configurations and in the README a short description of the interesting stuffs there, like “python functions in config” or “themed widgets” or “custom window shortcuts”.
This is really nice on many levels, and helps against the multiple anonymous folders with stuffs one has to click through to find something interesting.
This python script is similar to my approach; the file then is used in obsidian.
I like the idea of adding the weather there! And of getting TODOS by parsing md files. And getting the calendar
Python really is the better thing to use for that, not bash. Sadly needs a computer to run.
When looking for similar stuff stumbled upon https://forum.obsidian.md/t/slrvbs-journaling-setup/22346, an example of how deep can one go with obsidian templates only.
“What’s the best part and what’s the worst part about working at $companyName for you?”
(Asked by a candidate in a job interview I was present on, during the usual “do you have any questions about our company” bit)
No particular order, just things that keep creating problems because I never learned then for real:
tig better