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DO 100 THINGS - CARDIO i am giving cardio a shot for the first 50 times. if i still detest it by the end, that's it, i'll never do it again
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it's very interesting how things just go in and out of consciousness it makes sense because life is complex and there are a million things at any time more and more convinced that that kind of focus is superhuman to focus on a few things & ignore everything ruthlessly
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one thing i've not quite figured out is why keeping sustained (1wk-3mo) general focus is so difficult common pattern: - start something (gym, jogging, lecture series, etc.) - do it for a week, or two - stop doing it - literally FORGET about it for weeks/months it disappears
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Kierkegaard said the function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays, and the same is true of hope, dreams, so many things. The fruits are internal
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much of invention seems like this patrice o'neal once said "funny jokes and unfunny jokes come from the same birth" you really can't know in advance
The irony is that I kind of agree with Sabine @skdh that most academic research is BS, even in math. This is one of the (many) reasons why I left academia. Yet her economic analysis is dead-wrong, and public funding of mathematical research is wise, justified and cost-effective🧵
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since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; ee cummings with a banger
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DAY 15 04.03.2025 (3mo later. dec-jan was a holiday, but no excuse for not running from 10.01 thru 03.03) i went on a run just to make this number go up lol tough one today, pushed through 2nd half to achieve a 6min/km pace hell at the end but always good to push through
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yeah rn i'm experiencing this flavor of depression not fun i feel like the only way to generate fulfillment is something grand*. working on anything else just doesn't cut it. * high stakes, important, useful (eg children, solving an annoying problem for 1,000 people etc.)
i think a key feature of a certain kind of depression is an inability to generate goals that are fulfilling to pursue. so when i see people who are largely driven by power or attention i often think they're kind of depressed because those are easy things to want
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a shame that the internet made communication so quick and easy and yet i haven't found my tribe, a community of like-minded individuals, the kind of social circles i yearn for
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For my son, a plumbing career and a small shack in Ogdenburg. For my daughter, a swanky NYC apartment and a lucrative career.
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i procrastinated cleaning my room for a while until i realized i needed to reach a calm state as a first step so i meditated for a few minutes and then started walking myself through each step of the process claude broke it down as - Cognitive bandwidth restoration (via
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remembering a conversation with an ex, years ago we were talking about the concept of "believing you deserve to be loved". i said i don't believe anyone *deserves* anything a priori. she said, "it doesn't mean deserve as in be entitled to. it means deserve as in be worthy of."
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@davepl1968 Joel Spolsky had a nice analogy for this; Mr Coffee. Enterprise software is not about making a coffee machine, it is about putting a coffee machine in every room for 1000s of hotels and maintaining them.
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intuition = compressed knowledge communicated via emotion pathways big indicator that cognitive systems are bad at sending/receiving signals we need emotions
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“Action produces information. Just keep doing stuff.” — Brian Armstrong
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it goes on to state ”The democratization of knowledge is a myth. MOOCs and arXiv are not egalitarian utopias but digital cathedrals—grand, underpopulated, and preaching to the converted.“ **preaching to the converted**
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