Category: Notes

  • Read: The Case for Trump … by Someone Who Wants Him to Lose

    Much of the elite media, mostly liberal, became openly partisan in the 2016 election — and, in doing so, not only failed to understand why Trump won but also probably unwittingly contributed to his victory. Academia, also mostly liberal, became increasingly illiberal, inhospitable not just to conservatives but to anyone pushing back even modestly against…

  • Read: Slow Change Can Be Radical Change

    To be able to see change is to be able to make change. I’m an advocate for slowness, not in the sense of dragging your feet or delaying your reaction but in the sense of scaling your perception to to perceive the events unfolding, because I’m an advocate for making change. There’s a wonderful scene…

  • Read: It’s Time to Embrace Slow Productivity

    The bigger challenge of Slow Productivity is that it requires systems to manage work that’s not yet assigned. If you’re a boss, and an important task pops to mind—“We need to update our Web site with new client testimonials!”—you can no longer simply e-mail the request to one of your underlings and move on with…

  • Read: Find the Life Task

    For a start, a life task will be something you can accomplish “only by effort and with difficulty,” as Jung puts it – and specifically, I’d say, with that feeling of “good difficulty” that comes from pushing back against your conditioned preferences for comfort and security. Source: Find the Life Task – ckarchive.com Also on:

  • Read: Vision Pro, Unscrambled, Is “I Poison VR”

    The fact is, a two-trillion-dollar company is asking you to shut yourself off from your family, your friends, and your dog in order fully inhabit an environment manipulated and fine-tuned to serve a growth-at-any-cost ethos. This means you’ll be kept fully passive, and under surveillance at all times, to be be slowly monetized, like a…

  • It’s 1:18PM and I’m just now finally able to open my Morning Checklist. Eeeesh. It’s days like this that make Cal Newport’s vision of what “knowledge work” is like sound like a fairy tale. Also on:

  • I’ve been trying to achieve an easy way to POSSE from my phone with a nice interface, good editor, handles photos, etc. Neither iOS shortcuts nor the WordPress app are especially satisfying to use. Beluga looks interesting. Thanks @matthiasotthttps://beluga.social Also on:

  • Prompt: Write me a powershell script to run on a MICROSOFT Windows device that returns the enabled TLS versions.ChatGPT: (copy script, run): You’re running v. 1.2 (true!)MICROSOFT’S CoPilot (copy script/run): You don’t have any TLS (false!)Copilot, why you so dumb? Also on:

  • Dreary gray winter day, I’m looking out my window at the melting remains of last week’s snow. Need to turn around the energy for the afternoon’s projects, time to pull in the heavyweights: Gilberto Gil and Jorge Ben. https://album.link/i/1600510419 Also on:

  • Started listening to The Practice of Practice, trying to add a bit more structure to my practice sessions to make the best of my limited time. Verdict is still out. Audiobook has had several glitches in the first 30 minutes or so but looks like good material will be covered: https://thepracticeofpractice.com Also on: